Today any sensible man or woman will look around, and that is what they see. Sanity and love is being attacked by madness, insanity, and hate. If Bill O'Reilly were here he might suggest the gates of hell had been opened and the minions of darkness freed to assault us. Every Practical Gal says it is senseless when Christians shoot in churches and Muslims bomb mosques. People are destroying the very things that are the center of their communities. Why would a very rich person, a person like Donald Trump, a person who has everything they could want possibly be afraid? Is it because they have nothing to eat or no place safe to live or because they may not be able to pay for medicine when ill? No, the very rich are afraid of the rest of us. They are afraid that we might want them to share the wealth a bit more fairly, so they try to divide us and deflect the anger back at ourselves and divide us more. The 'Occupy Wall Street' movement that began in 2011 was supposed be a 'people powered' movement to get the mega-financial powers to relinquish their hold on the world and treat people like humans and not tools. It had a fine start in the fall of 2011, and spread across the world. Any Sensible man knows that the more obscene the wealth, the more the obscenely rich connive to make certain that the desperately poor have nothing and have virtually no way of moving themselves out of that nothing. The Practical Gal will tell you the disparity of educational services based on income levels is the problem. Sir Thomas Moore (Aka Saint Thomas Moore) wrote in his book, Utopia, \If you suffer your people to be ill-educated ...and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then you punish them?\ The rich make laws to punish people for not being rich. That is being a douchebag. When we can't pay their 'fines' (usurious interest rates), they take away our homes and make us homeless, then they criminalize homelessness and let buildings stand empty when they could become homes and throw good food in a dumpster and make it illegal to retrieve it. The practical gal and the sensible man will tell you that 8 billion people on this planet is a troubling thought without food in the equation, but that number is why we, on this planet need to guarantee more of a food supply down the road. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said recently that food production must increase by 70 percent. Worldwide sea levels are rising and creating salt marshes where there used to be farm land. So not only can these people not farm, but they have to move to cities and no longer work in food production – resulting in less net production, not more, and they still have to eat. We have a worldwide civilization now. Huge amounts of that civilization are living in places where the ground is poisoned and resources, such as fresh water, have to be trucked in for their continued survival. Is it sensible that in these places rich people build luxury oasis inside thick walls, pour water into the sand and dump food into the sewer while Sensible men and women starve outside the walls? Let's get sensible about craziness. |