A loophole in western power through economic oppression

Much of the world is oppressed economically. As a citizen of the united states of america, and more specifically san francisco, I live in what we all know of as the 1st world. Via brainwashing we are taught that we are fortunate to be here. We are continuously provided messages that we should feel fortunate and enjoy our wealth in the material world. We are to only imagine what hardships of the 2nd and 3rd class worlds would be on us and how good we have it. We are to think that the less fortunate envy us and are ultimately jealous of our ease of living. We then imagine that the so called less fortunate countries are less happy in life and far less fulfilled in life because of the struggles they go through.

The economic control established over the majority of the world's poor countries has created hardships and allowed for the further detachment from many indigenous roots and heritages. Many young feel forced to move into cities and abandon their local culture, for it has not provided any ability to liberate the difficulties of their day-to-day life. So in some sense the further destruction of a far more connected way of life is continued. But there are those who stay with the original ways of their people prior to the foreign invasion and oppression. They continue regardless that fewer and fewer new generations share this interest. This creates a divide between the masses of 2nd and 3rd world people and their wisdom teachers. In many ways the masses do want the dangled carrots of the first world which are placed just out of reach by the controlling corporations, but in other ways, upon visiting poor 3rd wold families, it is easy to see their intrinsic happiness and far more harmonious bonds to one another. We could learn much from their happiness. I attribute it to the fact that their oppression is relatively new to their cultures and that they have maintained some higher understandings of life from their past.

America is culturally devoid. Culture has been replaced by identifying yourself or community with material wealth. A true unifying culture simply never had time to gestate here. Through the development of the modern world, the disconnection to nature and the earth was only matched in velocity with greed. Greed became our new culture, and beyond our lack of ability to connect with the earth we also lost an ability to relate to the rest of the population on the planet. Greed steps in again to fill the gap as we form a new world culture we could relate to by winning the global economic game.

To maintain the culture of superiority the only way left to relate to our surroundings was to try to suppress all others into our way of thought. It could be said that it is working. It could be said that others do want our culture. But it is not so. Most that really get to know what a typical american family is about would never trade places. And most americans that travel to visit people that have come from a more connected and longer standing culture feel that something is truly missing in their lives, even though these people often exist in extreme poverty.

What is appearing here is an obviously needed cultural exchange. For what comes easy to us can help dramatically transform the cycle of oppression. We have money. We waste it all of the time. We spend four dollars on a coffee and can accept that. For us, four dollars is accessible. But that four dollar coffee, nor any other wasted material world purchase, does not fill that empty place within us. For that we need to access some of the teachings, nearly wiped out, from the more impoverished worlds. Yet they have almost lost those ways. One reason is that the younger generations have lost interest. Here is where we step in and close the gap. By visiting less materially wealthy places and supporting the sacred teachings saved by the dedicated few, we stand a chance. For us it is simple and for them the benefit is enormous. The interest and respectfulness needs to be a guiding light to re integrate their own cultures to more honorable ways. The people there need to see that our interest is in what they have to offer us, not in their desire to fall into the trappings of greed and materialism that brought us there. This could, in turn, create a sort of balance. Our service is for us to do what is easy for us. Provide financial help in an enormously immoral system. For them their service is to help us spiritually. Their reward would also be in the returning of their own people's interest into their culture by having the ones that might think they want what we have realize that what is really important to us is their teachings.

This exposes wonderful opportunities in countries like new zealand. Rather than planning conscious events and lectures on american soil, it is better to take these events where the money would go further. We then have the potential to make the locals aware that we want to learn from them more than they would ever really want what we have. We can help bring them further back to nature and explore our ideas for establishing conscious societies in america. Larger scale new energy projects could be tested and implemented far cheaper in poor nations, and be a service to their communities while generating internal pride.

This could be how the west moves the energy of the planet back into harmony.