The Real Enemies
by Jason Alan
The real enemy isn’t your neighbor.
While people are losing their houses, banks are given billions of your dollars so they can keep their enormous homes and gated communities.
The real enemy isn’t growing a pot plant in his back yard.
While we argue over decriminalization of a plant, pharmaceutical companies are raking in tons of money from selling sick people dangerously addictive narcotics.
The real enemy isn’t the preacher.
While we argue over religious beliefs, the pope lives in a palace, telling people who can’t afford to have children that contraception is a sin.
The real enemy isn’t the one driving an SUV.
While we argue over gas prices and conservation, oil moguls are profiting from war so they can have bigger estates made from the skulls of babies (ok I made that last part up).
The real enemy isn’t your local representative.
While we argue over liberal and conservative issues, the president is living in a big white house, spending a billion dollars of your money so that he can live in that house for four more years.
Think about it. If somebody gave you a billion dollars tomorrow, would you use every bit of it to make yourself more comfortable? Or would you buy a nice house, start a business, save some and use the rest to actually help people?
These aren’t just some crazy conspiracy theories. These evils are actually happening in this world that we call civilized. The real enemies aren’t even money and power. The real enemy is greed. Because if it wasn’t for greed, then no one person would feel that they need billions of dollars or have power and influence over millions or even billions of other people’s lives.
I was going to say that while we are distracted by arguing with each other, the power and money hungry are picking our pockets. But they don’t even have to pick our pockets. We were born into a society where they don’t have to. Every time we buy something, get gas, fill a prescription or go to work, we pay taxes and contribute, whether we like it or not. You would pretty much have to go live in the woods and hunt your own food to get away from it, but even those woods are more than likely owned by someone else.
So what is the answer? I don’t fucking know, I’m just a blogger with insomnia.
Jason Alan. Writer, Character. 
If I had a billion dollars I wouldn’t want to give it away only because I’m sure I’d be disappointed and angry at the way it would likely be spent – Palatial homes, plasma TV’s, drugs, smokes, alcohol, etc.
The most valuable thing about having so much money is the ability to control how it is used. It is this that should be used wisely.
That’s part of the problem. Control.
Indeed. We want the people we want to help to live a certain lifestyle even if we don’t live it ourselves.
Exactly. If I give a bum some money, I know he will probably spend it on alcohol. What else do we expect them to do, save up for a coffee table?
Well … believe it or not I just published a post on this topic, of course in my own style, and came to see what you up to … and here we go, very similar line of thought! Should I be scared now -:))?
Great post!
Daniela
Not of me. 🙂
Although I don’t agree with everything you say, I do applaud your honesty. I’m all for free speech!
What is there to disagree with on this one?
‘While we argue over liberal and conservative issues, the president is living in a big white house, spending a billion dollars of your money so that he can live in that house for four more years’
Obama could of made alot more money working on Wall Street and staying out of the White House. He was president of the Harvard Law Review. Not everyone can say that. And he’s not spending that money on himself.
It’s still an unnecessary waste. As opposed to a necessary waste, if there is such a thing.
Can we agree to disagree?
If we can agree that the disagreement that we agree upon is disagreeing to agree with our agreement. That actually didn’t make sense. I welcome disagreements. They’re groovy. 🙂
Ouch! You’re making my liberal, bipolar brain hurt! 🙂
Haha!
Do you ever sleep?
Occasionally…
Me too….
this is undoubtedly your best post ever. Please continue….
Thank you.
nice oh that last line after reading the rest made me chuckle
If all I can do is make someone laugh, I’ll take it.
I wish I knew the answer! One thing I know, ultimately greed is going to kill us because its not going to go away.
Greed won’t kill us all because then ‘they’ wouldn’t have anybody to get money from and to have power over.
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A good, open post, this. Maybe we could start by trying to understand what we want our pieces of the world to look like, then talk about how we can achieve some of our vision. So many people on so many blogs are having difficulty sleeping. Ready? x
I’m always up for discussion.
I think the dissolution of currency is the only way we’re going to truly eliminate many of the matters at hand; of course it’s never going to happen, at least in my lifetime, although how else can we even begin to reach genuine social equality when everything and everyone has a valued placed on them based on a made-man system of currency? Until the only thing we’re able to measure a human being by is their height and weight we’re going to see all of the problems mentioned and others perpetuate themselves and, in many cases, even get worse. Society has spent far too much time buying up band-aids instead of going after and eliminating what’s creating the wounds in the first place.
I agree. It’s akin to trying to cure the common cold in a place where people actually welcome the sickness. Or think they do.
Ah greed, the root of all sins. If it wasn’t for greed, maybe the world would be a little less bleak.
I would say a LOT less.
Have you been doing the twittering again? Jason, you have a very big heart. Some people do have the power to make a difference to change things. I’d like to think so anyway, but it’s hard to get away from the well-oiled machine. Like you said, even if you lived in some forest you probably wouldn’t be able to do it. I wish I could answer this for you. 42?
Maybe even 43…
Hmm….maybe. I think you hit it on the head when you talked about greed. I agree completely.
I am aware I tend to sound negative sometimes, but while I stand firm in the belief that humanity could do better, I also try to keep in mind that it could be worse. Much worse.
I don’t think you sound negative. I think you’re wrestling with the issues, as more people should do. You’re right. It could always be worse. That’s what I worry about and it wouldn’t take long…
It’s a curse being right all the time 😛
I’m sure it is 😉
Give everyone a million dollars and by the end of the day they’ll be rich and poor and rulers and ruled
At least then it would be a level playing field.
For a while…
The last sentence..
Describes most of us sane bloggers
The post describes how we think.
Lazy assed people we are, aren’t we?
I wouldn’t say lazy, surely not intellectually lazy.
not intellectually
but physically yes
Great post and very true. We worry and fret over the things we shouldn’t constantly. A true waste of time.
Yeah it’s pretty silly, and I’m not above it, either. I still think it’s healthy to debate.