Friday 10th August
The history of mankind has been one of constant struggle against tyranny; against those who would impose themselves on the rest of us. Through brute strength or intelligence or latterly the accumulation of wealth this supremacy has rapidly turned to tyranny, with all the abuses which this position of power has given them. The war against the priests and clerics has largely been won in the West, but has hardly started in the East; this is the war of ideas, where those who pretend to have some inner knowledge of what they call God and the secrets of the Universe are slowly being opposed by knowledge and rationality, a slow process but one that will ultimately be won I am sure. Those who use their physical strength to tyrannise us weaker ones are slowly being brought to book too, especially in the area of domestic life; children are rarely beaten and women even less so, again more progress in the West. But a new tyranny has emerged; those with money are now tyrannising the poor. Capitalism was always a nasty disease which like all infections has spread and now includes the whole world. But like all viruses the parasite needs a host to sap the lifeblood out of. Capitalism needs the poor of the world to feed off, and as each country becomes developed and a degree of middle class wealth emerges so the quest for new poor resumes. Capitalism has only one real host left to devour and that is Africa, and the locusts are swarming as we speak. But devour is the wrong word, for like all tyrant’s victims, killing is too good for them, better to keep them alive to exploit again and again. So rape is a far better analogy, and we have all been raped by the Capitalists, turning most of us into prostitutes into the bargain. But one day it will have to stop, one day enough people will realise that sharing is better than stealing, that caring is better than neglect, that co-operation is better than self-interest; that love for your fellow man is better than rape. Roll on that day.