Like Wilberforce, let’s tackle the status quo
FOR 18 years William Wilberforce tried to teach millions who had no interest that the economic system which included slavery was evil, both for slaves and everyone who agreed with it.
But, as today, the 90% of the population who were conformists accepted slavery on the stupidest of all possible arguments – that they could not change it.
An even more dangerous form of private enterprise exists now, of corporations producing and spreading extreme pornography, which cannot affect people of mature years very much, but must cause a substantial degree of mental illness in a proportion of young teenagers if they are exposed to it. The developing teenage minds of the next generation are our most valuable responsibility, but our idea of economics is that, if business can make a profit out of it, then that, like slavery, makes it acceptable to capitalism.
It seems insane that we should insist the state should spend more money on the nation’s mental health, while we know that private corporations are damaging the minds of our children, in the name of not regulating the free market economy. (Germany and the EU are my only hope to lead the world.)
I have talked to several adults about this, who gave me the craziest answer, that the reason why this cannot be controlled, is because these corporations have worldwide power. This shows you what conformity does to the operation of the brain. The reason why we cannot prevent this is because the corporations are damaging all the children on the planet. Any sane person would see this as all the motive which every decent adult would require to unite to challenge the idea that money rules the human race. These evil boardroom directors only have this power because we give it to them: they are only persons, like you and me.
As in the days of Wilberforce, I want to see the law changed, so these directors are tried in absentia, and, if they ever stray onto British jurisdiction, they go to jail. But the basic fault lies in us, condoning their evil.
What was the point of Wilberforce’s inspiring life, if we are still too stupid to learn?