There are two types of people in the world. Those that benefit from the system and those that don’t. They are easy to tell apart. One has food. The other doesn’t. One has a roof over their head. The other doesn’t. One has access to education. The other doesn’t. One has access to money. The other doesn’t. If the system was alive, I think it would be spending most of its time howling with laughter. We get mad at our politicians. We can’t believe the decision city hall made. The store is out of the hottest toy of the season, three weeks before Christmas. So we vote the old politician out and elect a new one. And nothing changes. The politician is the face of the system, but not the system. We think what people want, matters. But not if it is the system that tells people what they want. In, Dahab, Egypt, a town of 15,000, across the Strait of Aqaba from Saudi Arabia, an enterprising young woman wants to teach skills to Bedouin children. She gets hassled by the local police. For some reason, they don’t want educated Bedouin. Somehow, somewhere, those police officers learned that behavior. I am confident that generally speaking most would disagree with their attitude. I am also sure that if you spoke to their spouses, friends or family, these policemen would be described as wonderful men. But they did not behave wonderfully in this incident. They are part of a system. When you are stuck in traffic every morning and every afternoon on your way to and from work. The traffic jam is part of the system. Yes, you and I are part of the system. And when you are immersed in the system, you rarely think about it and it is very difficult to consider alternatives or changes. The system lets us paint the walls of our rooms any color we want. Thus we think we have free choice. It allows us to go into voting booths and change the politicians “in charge”. Thus we think we have free choice. We live in a system that consistently produces results. Some ‘good’, some ‘bad’. We live in a system that shelters us from responsibility. In many ways... in Canada, you can abuse your body for decades, and when you are about to die, they put you in a hospital and get you another year or ten. For free. We abdicated our responsibilities at the civic level. Fifty percent or less vote in city elections. Nobody cares until they want to build a home for recovering drug addicts on your street. In Canada, civic elections bring out 35 - 50% of voters. “You can’t fight city hall” We live in an amazing era. There is almost free access to more knowledge that you could ever learn in ten lifetimes. But we use a governing system that is four hundred to six hundred years old. This system has grown into a gargantuan dragon. It hides behind 2400 page laws that US congressmen receive three hours before they vote. The Pentagon says it can’t account for four TRILLION dollars. ISIS and the Taliban, mortal enemies of The Empire, fight in Syria with US made arms. Your child is suicidal. You find a combination of herbs that ‘cures’ them. Health Canada takes you to court and under oath, Health Canada says they would rather your child die than use unapproved ‘drugs’. When the Health Canada official went home that night, do you think he smacked his wife, kicked the dog and sent his child to bed without dinner? Of course not. His family and friends would tell you what an upstanding citizen he is. Stuck in a broken system... One in eight people go to bed hungry each night. In the Atlantic Ocean are areas the size of Texas, full of plastic. They exist in the Pacific. It is a systemic problem. Don’t produce plastic that doesn’t decompose and the problem goes away. But the problem never goes away. A new system is coming. If we do nothing like we have for the past fifty years, it will be more broken than what we now have. The new system, like the old one, is being put in place by those that benefit from the present system, unless we stand up, say ‘no’, and change the system.

There are two types of people in the world. Those that benefit from the system and those that don’t. They are easy to tell apart. One has food. The other doesn’t. One has a roof over their head. The other doesn’t. One has access to education. The other doesn’t. One has access to money. The other doesn’t. If the system was alive, I think it would be spending most of its time howling with laughter. We get mad at our politicians. We can’t believe the decision city hall made. The store is out of the hottest toy of the season, three weeks before Christmas. So we vote the old politician out and elect a new one. And nothing changes. The politician is the face of the system, but not the system. We think what people want, matters. But not if it is the system that tells people what they want. In, Dahab, Egypt, a town of 15,000, across the Strait of Aqaba from Saudi Arabia, an enterprising young woman wants to teach skills to Bedouin children. She gets hassled by the local police. For some reason, they don’t want educated Bedouin. Somehow, somewhere, those police officers learned that behavior. I am confident that generally speaking most would disagree with their attitude. I am also sure that if you spoke to their spouses, friends or family, these policemen would be described as wonderful men. But they did not behave wonderfully in this incident. They are part of a system. When you are stuck in traffic every morning and every afternoon on your way to and from work. The traffic jam is part of the system. Yes, you and I are part of the system. And when you are immersed in the system, you rarely think about it and it is very difficult to consider alternatives or changes. The system lets us paint the walls of our rooms any color we want. Thus we think we have free choice. It allows us to go into voting booths and change the politicians “in charge”. Thus we think we have free choice. We live in a system that consistently produces results. Some ‘good’, some ‘bad’. We live in a system that shelters us from responsibility. In many ways... in Canada, you can abuse your body for decades, and when you are about to die, they put you in a hospital and get you another year or ten. For free. We abdicated our responsibilities at the civic level. Fifty percent or less vote in city elections. Nobody cares until they want to build a home for recovering drug addicts on your street. In Canada, civic elections bring out 35 - 50% of voters. “You can’t fight city hall” We live in an amazing era. There is almost free access to more knowledge that you could ever learn in ten lifetimes. But we use a governing system that is four hundred to six hundred years old. This system has grown into a gargantuan dragon. It hides behind 2400 page laws that US congressmen receive three hours before they vote. The Pentagon says it can’t account for four TRILLION dollars. ISIS and the Taliban, mortal enemies of The Empire, fight in Syria with US made arms. Your child is suicidal. You find a combination of herbs that ‘cures’ them. Health Canada takes you to court and under oath, Health Canada says they would rather your child die than use unapproved ‘drugs’. When the Health Canada official went home that night, do you think he smacked his wife, kicked the dog and sent his child to bed without dinner? Of course not. His family and friends would tell you what an upstanding citizen he is. Stuck in a broken system... One in eight people go to bed hungry each night. In the Atlantic Ocean are areas the size of Texas, full of plastic. They exist in the Pacific. It is a systemic problem. Don’t produce plastic that doesn’t decompose and the problem goes away. But the problem never goes away. A new system is coming. If we do nothing like we have for the past fifty years, it will be more broken than what we now have. The new system, like the old one, is being put in place by those that benefit from the present system, unless we stand up, say ‘no’, and change the system.
by Scott Paton

January 03, 2018 at 11:27PM
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