So I was perusing reddit, doing my daily doom scroll, and I am honestly flabbergasted at the amount of people that are willing to burn the world around them, themselves included, all so they can spite people they don't like.
But, actually, im not surprised.
Hate, pride, jealousy and greed are some powerful emotions. And these emotions, unfortunately make it so easy to divide and conquer.
The government can tell the upper class that they are the cream of the crop. So it's easier for them to hate everybody who's not on their level.
The government tell the middle class they are better than lower class. That we should be so lucky to serve them with a smile and be beholden to their whims. Makes it easier for them to dehumanize us.
They split the lower class even further, by telling white people that black people blame them for slavery. That we are nothing but theives and savages, animals only fit to serve or be killed.
They tell us that white people are trying to take everything from us, even when that's not the case. We don't need them as allies, because they're jealous of our power.
They tell the lgbtq+ that heterosexuals hate them because they are devients and they tell heterosexuals that the lgbtq+ are jealous of them and they want to hurt them, because they are hurting the children.
All so we can fight amongst ourselves, killing some of us while tiring the rest of us out so that we are easier to push us like lambs to be slaughtered.
Yet, we have the internet at our finger tips. We can literally look up and research history. We can easily verify facts and see that atrocities like the holocaust and slavery have happened. That MK ULTRA was a thing, that was based on torture methods that America learned from Nazi scientists; that they used those tactics on their own people for their own research.
But, if they can get us to distrust science, if they can get us to distrust facts, get us to distrust ourselves...
Well then, its so much easier to divide us into smaller and smaller groups, so they can pick us off one by one.
And the scary part is that its working, it works time and time again.
While they convince us that we are tearing each other down, they simultaneously convince us that they care about us. That they have our back. They inject a sense of false pride in us, so that we can push against our own sense of critical thinking by telling us "you're not wrong, its THEM who are wrong".
Because who doesn't want to feel like they are right? To feel...JUSTIFIED in killing our neighbors who are jealous of what we have.
And what's even worse: THERE'S MORE THAN ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.
More than enough resources.
More than enough medical treatment.
More than enough land, housing, MONEY.
Money in and of itself is not the root of all evil.
It's the LOVE of money, that is the root of all evil. And boy, do the 1% LOVE. THEIR. MONEY.
(Make no mistake, either, whether you are well off, or dirt poor, we are ALL good for nothing, except to serve the 1%. You. Me. Everyone.)