Day 121: Euro Crisis and Old Grudges

Germany has taken lead as part of the Eurozone to push Greece's austerity measures.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to visit Greece to talk to the Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on the status of the Greek economy.

Demonstrations and protests emerged, where some of the demonstrators were even bearing swastika flags to show their discontent at Germany being the one pushing the austerity measures. Points like Greece never having waived their claim at reparations from Germany opened up, and the Nazi occupation from 41 to 44.

So now here's all these people getting angry, and basically blaming Germany for the hardship they are in because of the war and never having received reparations costs.

But if you look at history, all wars were always economic in nature -- where somewhere someone wanted to have advantage over another -- like say Germany wanting to become a superpower, and then losing and then getting punished really bad for, so bad that they got angry and started a new war.

There's always been someone wanting more than another, always someone wanting to be within a 'win' situation -- where they fear losing their money so bad, that they make moves which are destructive for the whole of the world economy -- and yet throughout history, the same mistakes happen over and over again.

Most of the time, the reasons for war aren't even 'rational' in it's starting point (on that note, can war ever be rational?) -- where countries merely fear or interpret another countries economic performance in a particular way where they then go and make assumptions and want to go to war -- or where they feel like they are being treated unfairly and want payback, etc. In essence, these countries as 'personas' on their own, act exactly like human beings, where they are completely ruled by emotion and lack all common sense in the world.

I mean, all they are doing right now is trying to save each one's individual ass, without any consideration of what would be Best for All -- where the EU's pretty comfortable saying "Good Riddance!" to Greece, and anyone else who seems to be in a trouble.

Countries are being ruled by people who are just as impulsive as any other person on the street, but this has massive consequence since you're not just dealing with two human beings or a small group of human beings, but entire countries with millions of people who have to suffer the consequence of decisions based on emotion rather than common sense and what is Best for All.



If we are going to continue making political and economic decisions based on the past and personal grudges, we're never going to get anywhere because we're just going to try and get back at each other. It's time to realise that we are all just people, on the same planet, sharing the same space -- we might as well make the best out of it for EVERYONE.

Euro crisis opens old wounds for Greece, Germany, By Oliver Joy, for CNN, October 19, 2012 - http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/19/business/euro-crisis-greece-germany/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6

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Day 34: Occupying the Middle-Class

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the current world economic system does not work for everyone

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that it is impossible for everyone to ‘make it’ and ‘get rich’ within this world – as the current world economic system is a pyramid scheme which requires a large strong foundation to maintain the top – and thus those who ‘make it’ will always only be a few while those who ‘don’t make it’ will always be the majority

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the current economic system of profit does not work on the basis of “creativity” – where the economic system stimulates people to be ‘more creative’ to bring about ‘more effective’ goods and services, and where profit is the reward for this endeavour – but where the current economic system is based on the one being or group, exploiting another being or group – where they manipulate the game to simple take the profits they want

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the middle-class is kept passive and complacent through the hope and dream of one day being rich and successful themselves

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the belief that anyone can make it as long as you work hard enough – is simply not true – as it is simple mathematics that if you want more and take more – that this ‘more’ has to come from somewhere

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the middle-class is being contained through media manipulation – where the media will report success stories of people who had nothing and worked their way up to the top – ending up with having everything

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the stories and the people who are being reported to have made it from nothing to everything – are in fact exceptions to the rule – as the media will only report on those things which are highly unusual as they as sensational and thus ‘newsworthy’ as these stories will generate revenue for the particular media company – instead of the media reporting every day occurrences and events such as the 21  000 children dying everyday and within that I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the media is trying to portray these events/stories as if they are the norm – where people fall for the trap that they too can be come as wealthy – just keep working!

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the chance of being struck by lightning within one's lifetime is higher than the chance of living the ‘rags-to-riches’ story

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that if a person in a developed country such as the US has got 1 in 200 000 000 chances of becoming rich – then the chances for anyone lesser developed countries is even worse off – as the amount of money one already has plays a major role in increasing your “chances”

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the current world economic system is not a system which provides for all equally within the consideration of life – but is a giant casino / lottery game where one in a million might hit the jackpot – yet everyone keeps playing

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise how the middle-class and everyone else hoping to be rich will oppose higher tax rates on the wealthy as they think/believe that they too will be wealthy one day – instead of seeing and realising that it’s not going to happen and that this belief is the only thing which is keeping the outrageously rich in place

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that 69% of the people who can be qualified as rich within the world – are rich because they inherited their wealth

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that 26,8% of the people who can be qualified as rich within this world – are rich because of criminal activities and "unethical behaviour"

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that 4,2% of the people who can be qualified as rich within this world – are rich because they married into money

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the above three factors make up the foundation of over 99% of the rich people’s wealth

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that one's chances to becoming wealthy are linked to the birth lottery and poverty

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that higher education as college / university within this world works just like a gamble / casino – as you have more chance of losing money than gaining money – where the majority end up being burdened by student loan debt which influences the rest of their lives vs a few making it to the top and thus getting “something” out of their education while most likely their education had nothing to do with why they got rich as the numbers above have shown


I commit myself to change this world from a world of extreme inequality to one of Equality as what is Best for All

I commit myself to expose how the current world economic system does not in fact support all equally – where a few individuals at the top of the pyramid benefit from the vast majority at the bottom of the pyramid where the bottom’s loss is the top’s gain

I commit myself to show that the current world economic system is unsustainable and thus irresponsible and that it is possible to have a different world economic system where everyone’s better off as the Equal Money System

I commit myself to expose how the hope for riches is the rope the middle-class and poor hang by, as it leaves them in a state of compliance in the hope and dream that they too might one day be rich, without seeing and realising that within the current world system and dynamics that this is highly improbable

I commit myself to expose how the current world economic system works as a casino where the birth lottery decides your fate as it decides how much money will be available for you and your future

I commit myself to show those who are willing to hear that we do not have to accept this abusive system and that we can establish a world economic system within this world which will make Life worth Living