After my rather responseless entry about the U.$. of A. I hope to get a bit more feedback this time around.
I want to go a bit more into detail and put down my views concerning the Root of all Evil.
Who or what is actually to blame for the imbalance in the world we live in?
The Root of Imbalance - the Economic $y$tem
I think targeting the people in so called "developed" countries (particularly in the United States) is not totally justified as opposed to the American system. There are plenty of good people in America, just as there are plenty of bad people in America. Selfishness does tend to be a main value there and in most parts of the world by now, but I don't think that it is the fault of the people, I find it more to be a fault of the system. People are largely just products of the system/environment/surrounding that created them. In this case that system is the American system (let's just concentrade on that for now), and more importantly, the American mass media system which promotes the values of that system. Here are the culprits.
The American media system is the most powerful system of propaganda the world has ever known. It is run not by the U.S. government, but by global corporations such as VIACOM. This system that they have created is so powerful that it reaches other countries and assimilates them just like the U.S.. Take a look at China for example. U.S. corporate values have been successfully inserted into a country that used to be about as against those values as you can get. The American mass media are experts at manipulating collective sub-consciousness's of societies and social groups. Subliminal messaging is a common place art for them along with misinformation, and many other propaganda techniques.
It is this system rather than the people that it manipulates which needs to be targeted along with other global systems, namely the world bank, the IMF (international monetary fund), and the WTO (world trade organization) + WorldBank. These organizations (often referred to as the Bretton Woods Institutions) are responsible for more poverty and misery then any other systems in the world. They deftly manipulate politics, buying out poor countries and forcing their indigent people to pay higher prices for food and goods that they ship in. They then take complete control of these countries and over-ride any human rights and/or environmental policies that get in the way of them taking all the profits they want from these countries. If the countries refuse to comply, then these organizations will black label them and all the investors will withdraw their funds at a moments notice, thereby leaving a country which was completely dependant on these systems out in the cold with the worst humanitarian crisis imaginable. Many grass roots organizations have targeted these organizations, and their policies, and they simply respond with double talk, saying one thing in the Washington convention while doing something completely different and continuing their atrocities in practice. Here is a link to an article about this in a website full of damning information on these organizations, so much so that it would take you forever to go through it all, BrettonWoodsProject.org.
I think that these organizations are like the finger of global corporations which is comparable to the finger of God. They manipulate politics with precise skill, easily circumventing local governments spreading famine and raking in astronomical profits. It's like they eat people, and they get fatter and more powerful every time they eat someone. I am totally convinced that governments themselves don't run the world for the most part. Corporations do.
Big corporations go in these countries selling food under the guise of development of the territories and stimulations of economic growth, when all they are in fact doing is buying out the market and forcing impoverished peoples who already have trouble feeding their families to buy their food and products at higher prices. They then make the territory completely dependant on them, therefore they occupy it in the sense that if the local government opposes them they hold the threat of withdrawing all their funds which would be completely disasterous to the already impoverished people. A really good example of this abuse is Columbia. Columbia is facing the worst humanitarian crisis between these global corporations owning every industry there (maybe even the drug industry, that is speculation but with good reason) and the U.S. supporting, arming, and training malicious paramilitaries that target only the poor with horrendous acts of violence and atrocities. These paramilitaries are lavishly praised for cracking down on drug trade. However, all the real drug trafficers in the area simply pay them off, while the indigent people who can't feed their families from lack of a job who have no other choice but to grow coca to try and fetch a good price are brutally targeted.
You see, the problem I think, doesn't necessarily lie in the political systems per se, but our economic systems which force values of greed over every other human value. Our economic systems which plot economic take-overs of indigent countries rapidly consolidating wealth into the hands of just a few, making economic invasion of larger countries become more and more feasible. Bombs may soon prove to be a thing of the past, it will be dollar$$$ that will be the weapon of the new millenia. Much more effective. Your enemy can't even attack you if you own all the weapons and ammo, and he depends on you to sell him his food.
I think one of the main obstacles to making the world a better place is that most people don't really realize exactly what is going on in the world right now. So many people probably haven't even heard of the Bretton Woods Institutions, or if they have, they have no idea what those institutions are up to. These institutions are quite good at covering their tracks politically, and you won't find anything about this in the media of course. You have to dig and do research to find out what they are up to. In order to know, to dig and do that research you have to realize what organizations are responsible for our current global crisises.
The mass media does it's job well and it's about time people around the world WAKE UP & smell the bitter aroma of injustice!
~peace~
