The Common Man

It has happened enough times now to be registered in the mind of any keen observer. Since the 1990s the price of oil per barrel in my opinion has near quadrupled which is only because of the instability in the region of the world which produces the most oil. Think about it, the price of food itself has doubled over the last 2 decades, not just in one part of the world (mind you) but perhaps globally. The more extreme studies and projections even say that the doubling has happened in the last ten years and is set to happen quicker the next time around. Can you really believe that people in such small countries can create so much conflict for so long and that it can affect the world in so many ways? Well it’s hard for me to believe that such is the nature of human arrogance that despite the bloodshed for hundreds of years we still refuse to change our old ways.

Why does the west feel obliged to take action every time some country starts to kill off its people or a regime gets too oppressive? Why is it that every time a war happens anywhere on the earth, the currency value in poor nations just shoots up? Who is it that suffers on a daily basis? Who has to deal with the distant repercussions in ways that it doesn’t even make sense to them? Lastly, who really profits from all this war and all this instability?

War is a profitable business for the big arms manufacturers and the black market but it is not good business for humanity. War is good business for the rich and the powerful but not so much for the poor and the hardworking. Innocents who have nothing to do with the politics and the war are slaughtered for free, take this bet from me that more than 50% of the people who are “killed in the crossfire” in wars and conflicts around the world, don’t really have an idea or they don’t remember what the fight is really about.

Our world is being plundered in the worst ways possible; most of it is being plundered on a daily basis so much so that there will be nothing left soon enough. There is only one problem with this, only the rich are getting richer, it doesn’t matter to the rich whether petrol costs more, they have plenty to throw around. It really doesn’t matter to the rich whether food has generally become expensive; who is really left out of it all is the common man. I wonder what kind of a common man image it is that most people form in their heads, well let me tell you in one line about the common man in any part of the world. The common man is the hard working man who sweats it out doing the hard laborious work, day in and day out 9-12-15(maybe more) hours a day without Saturdays or Sundays and without any insurance or incentive other than the meager fruit of their daily toils.

Besides that, hard working people all over the world are being robbed of a lot more than they get on a regular basis. Where is the progress that this age should bring? Most of it, I would say, is in war somewhere and we are so blinded by brand and what little we get from being a slave that we are selling our world away. Throwing away a wonderful world full of harmony and love, instead we embrace modern day values to become part of a system that depends on exploitation for its survival. The common man has been made very common now with nothing special to offer to themselves or to the world that they live in.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. - Che Guevara