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We are in such a competitive world. We compete for status, grades, looks, food, territory, bureaucratic positions, friendships, sports, and the front of the lunch line.
We do this because of the systems, or institutions, we were raised and bound by.
For example, America holds the values of "freedom," free market, and the concept that everyone has a "voice." And everyone in that institution gets to use those values. Other institutions (other countries) have their own similar values that they were raised by. They have their form of government, beliefs, and culture - and that's the one they will stick by. When one institution brings their values to another institution, this creates conflict, competition, and war.

Furthermore, business and corporate institutions follow this same pattern. They compete with each other, keeping their own values intact. When they face conflict from other institutions, they try to force their value system on society.

If shoe salesman A was selling shoes for $10, and salesman B comes along and sells their own shoes for $8, the first salesman's system is compromised. As a result, the salesman A fires 3 employees so he can sell his shoes for $7. In response, Salesman B fires all of his employees, invests in machinery for automation, and outsources his shoe materials from Mexico, allowing him to sell his shoes for $4. It's a vicious cycle of compromised values, and we're seeing it on a global scale.

Why do we compete as a society? We have the technology to bring clean, renewable energy to everyone in the world, to house every single person, to bring food and shelter to the entire world. The answer is simple: Scarcity. Scarce resources are the reason why we have to compete to survive, why we work 9-5 jobs just to put food on our table and gas in our car. With the possibility of losing those resources which require us to live, people will compete, fight, and undercut each other no matter what. In other words, achieve maximum profitability within your institution, regardless of the social or economic costs. This works for business, political, religious, and any other institution in the world.
The fuel in this equation is the dollar. Without money, we don’t have access to resources. And as institutions, we have a set value system in place to acquire these resources. America values the Free Enterprise System, in which private citizens of the institution are essentially profit seeking and operate through a market economy in which competition is encouraged. Cuba uses socialism to try and control their resources (and, well, we know how that worked out).

The DOLLAR has become the means for existence. The DOLLAR has become the reason why people steal food to eat, and why Exxon buys the energy patents for the electric vehicle to continue profitability. The DOLLAR is the reason why our Government spends $500,000,000,000 (look it up) on the Department of Defense to control oil in the Middle East, and only $2,900,000,000 on Coronary Heart Disease research, which kills 450,000 people a year.

The DOLLAR has consumed us.

It has become the way we are and the way we operate. It drives us to undercut each other, and to plot and strategize against each other. It creates war, famine, poverty, and power.

There is no race, gender, or ethnicity in the big world picture. The only social classes now are the rich, the middle class and the poor. Money brings power, and the concept of life has become nothing more than a vicious, competitive game. This is why 1% of the population owns 40% of the world’s wealth, where 34,000 children die every day from poverty and preventable diseases because their country cannot compete with our dominating nation and its World Bank supporters. This is also why of the world’s top 100 economies (based on GDP), 51 are corporations; 47 of which are US based. Walmart, GM, and Exxon are more economically powerful than Saudi Arabia, Poland, Norway, Indonesia, and others.

Now what if we, in some imaginary world, got rid of the dollar? Imagine a society where we utilized our entire earth’s resources to bring food, clothing and shelter to everyone. Where clean and efficient energy using wind, solar, and geothermal replaced crude oil. Where instead of worrying about the “costs,” we can focus on solutions to problems that are killing humans every day. We have to think outside of the monetary box to do that. Believe it or not, we are technologically advanced to be more than capable of doing this. We don’t because of our institutionalized mindset that the world operates around money and not around the people.

It’s all about letting go of those institutions that bind us, and focusing on the bigger picture. A world free of poverty, sickness, and greed. A world united, not divided. That is my institution. But in order to achieve this, we need to unite in a way that surpasses all governments, rulers, teachers, societies, cultures and philosophies. Unite with unconditional love, and we will be free.


“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

Check out Zeitgeist: Addendum at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912#

You'll totally understand!!