I’ve come to the conclusion that a violent revolution is inevitable in our country. As long as there are inequalities in our system, those inequalities will continue to grow larger and larger until inevitably the disenfranchised–with no significant political, material, or financial leverage–are forced to use the only recourse left to them to reconquer what is rightfully theirs: violence.
Our system is complex, making it hard to see where these inequalities exist and why we can’t seem to make it as far as we want in life. I won’t try and make sense of it, but we can’t deny that these problems do exist. For example, we can’t all be CEOs of multimillion-dollar businesses because someone has to be there to do the work. Likewise, we have a limited number of jobs that can be considered gainful employment, and some people will always be left out.
Is there enough work for everyone? Sure! The problem is that not all jobs pay the same, and most of them will not support a family or even a single person.
The bottom line is that people in our society don’t have what they need. We try to hide it by introducing social programs, telling people to work harder, or perculating the idea of The American Dream, as if one need only to work hard to achieve a living. The simple fact is that one needs to work harder than others to achieve a living, and one’s having a roof over their head necessarily means that another does not.
Don’t we have a democracy? Shouldn’t we be equal politically? Again, it’s just an illusion. People are too easily swayed by expensive campaigns to really look at what is involved in their decisions. Besides, the have-nots are too busy trying to survive to worry about the affairs of some high-ranking officials who only feign compassion for the less fortunate.
This is compounded by the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, evidenced by the census. Further, wealth is handed down in families, making it even harder for the have-nots to make it in the world. It gets worse: The wealthy, with all their political, material, and financial means, are in ideal positions to pick and choose those who obtain desirable jobs. Their brood continue to incestuously get richer at the continued expense of everyone with fewer means then they.
So what are we to do?
Violence is inevitable unless we radically alter, redefine, transform, and recreate our society, a process we’re unlikely to ever see as it’s not in the best interest of the wealthy, who are the only ones capable of such a change.
I have an idea, though.
PS: No Genital Herpes for me! I’m in the clear. Yay!
