Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Man is so arragant

Sadly I have way too many hours to fill up each day. And because I have no money for 'entertainment' I have to make do with watching tv. ALL DAY LONG,... (really I watch tv from the minute I wake up until I go to sleep) Some days I find enough to keep me interested but there are other days that the tv just seems to have nothing but garbage on it. Those days really drag on,... 

In watching tv I do find myself streaming a lot of documentaries. I have always been drawn to learning. Nowadays my memory is so bad that I watch a really good doc where I learned so much ~ but a few weeks later I don't recall anything on it. (early dementia I think,...) In some ways this can be good. I can enjoy a program over again as if I hadn't watched it. 

In viewing all of these documentaries, I have started to see the world differently. I suppose my circumstances can also be another reason I have changed my views on this world and our society as well. But just seeing what man does to other man and this planet has been an eye opener. I like to stick to more reputable productions like National Geographic and BBC. They do some great docs. I have been watching them now for a few years now since I have been so isolated.  And the one big thing I have come away with is this,..

Man is very arragant and greedy and has more money than sense.

For example: Dubai ~ I don't care how much money you posess,.. you can't change physics. This country is one of the wealthiest in the world.  And with big money comes big arragance. Just because you have the money to produce something,... doesn't mean it will work. Take all the man made islands Dubai is making. They may look pretty now but mark my words - Dubai is sinking. From all the docs I have seen,... they are building BILLION dollar buildings on man-made sand islands. How did society allow men with money and greed to get into power and destroy a city just because he has the money and a dream.  And a whole lot of arragnce and greed and entitlement. 

Watching all these docs I see many failed HUGE MONEY PROJECTS. Trillion dollar projects,... that have collapsed. There are whole cities that were failed projects and now lay in an abandoned ruin. I mean there are thousnads of abandoned projects all over the world. Failed buildings,... all money wasted becasue somewon wouldnt listen to an engineer tell them the building won't last. But they pay people off to get the permits to build these monstrosities anyway. Much like the sand islands in Dubai. There are actually so many projects and skyscapers that Dubai undertook but failed and all were cancelled leaving billions in lost money and a mess left behind abandoned. 

It's all such a waste. And all at the hands of greed and arragance. 

The reason I think about this is all the poverty in the world. The more I see around the world in this life ~ the more I see that we are all run by arragant rich people that don't care about anyone but the rich. So many people are falling into poverty. This world is a nasty class system and the rich get it all. 

Living in poverty myself has drawn me to see this so clearly. The amount of people on this planet that live in poverty and horrible conditions is appalling. Yet the rich leaders seem to be blind. I live in 'Canadian' poverty. I am lucky. Because there but for the grace of God go I could have had me born in the slums of India or a shanty town in Brazil. They are misery on earth. Yet millions of people live in this abject poverty every day. While some rich guy with more money than sense decides he's rather spend the money on "The Worlds Largest Picture Frame" instead at a cost of 43.5 million. It boggles the mind. 

The money wasted on this planet is obscene.

I may be just an old lady isolated away in a small town in Ontario Canada. But after learning so much about the destruction of this planet,... I can't help but feel glad i am old and will die soon. It does give me pause for what will happen to my little baby granddaughter though. What will her world be like? If it hasn't been destroyed already by the time she is 50. 

There is a huge lesson here about humanity. But it seems to be lost on the rich and powerful. They are so blinded with greed of always wanting more - they forget about the people in need. 

But I don't forget. Because I am one of billions on this planet that doesn't have a nice life because of poverty. I may not live in slums or shanty towns,.. but my life is not easy and it definitely has left me in despair. 

We should have learned from our past,... but we never will. As long as the wrong people run our countries - the poor will get poorer. And we will continue to suffer. While the Putins and the Kim Jong Uns are alive ~ good people will be abandoned and left to miserable lives.

Maybe it's because I'm older and wiser (wiser may be a stretch) or maybe it's because I live down here now that I am just much more aware of the injustices of the world. Either way,... I have seen it. We need more Gandhi's and Mandela's,... but instead we get evil and greed.

This is just another reason I am not so eagre to bother hanging around. Without a thriving lifestyle with money to do things and friends and family to do it with,... there just isn't a point. 

I worry about this planet. I wonder how long it will take before man destroys every last inch of it. 

If you are reading this - do me a favour and reach out to one individual today. Someone you know who is alone and struggling. Maybe a person in your congregation at church or a neighbour. But I can tell you from my own experience,... living alone and struggling is hard enough. But not being seen while doing it - makes you feel invisable. So pick up your phone and make someone you know VISABLE today. 



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