The Trouble with the Whole World
Michael St.Mark, April 2011
Television screenshot of an injured and captured mercenary from the Libyan town of Misrata. Part of a rebel army unit that had been shelling civilian areas and sniping from rooftops at anything that moved. Here pictured wounded ( & shot in the foot to prevent escape ) with a wad of Gaddafi’s blood money ironically now soaked with his own blood; he admits to piece work – paid per person he shot..
( “I have wife and hungry children to feed, what else could I do“? ).
The Work relates to the increasingly common mentality of ” I don’t care about anyone else just so long as I’m doing ok ” and how it is inexorably destroying the social fabric of the entire world – this being a particularly archetypal example – along with the arms dealer, drug dealer, the abattoir worker, the rogue banker & multi corporation executive, the Tory health minister.. and now *CORONA UPDATE 2023 – our silent doctors and our bought-off poodle media.
M St.M
* 2020 is witnessing a global power grab away from the world’s 99% by the 1% in the guise of protecting them from a bug that, taking into account the average excess seasonal mortality average over the previous 5 years, was ( * 2022 update ) no more harmful than the seasonal flu.
Needless fear-mongering and outright lies as means of controlling the masses are rife by corrupt governments and global main media corporations.
The above “bottom line” image, now more than ever represents an accurate metaphor to describe most journalists, doctors, scientists and politicians, being directly or indirectly in the pay of the mega wealthy’s agenda of mass control.
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Be your brother’s keeper; he and you are parts of the same whole, and his misfortune necessarily affects you. (Lajos Egri said in his book-The Art of Dramatic Writing). Unfortunately, most people miss this point.
Misrata-I have a full CD of images.Have stopped seeing the news nowadays, as I have seen and smelt more than my fair share this year in Tripoli. Bodies piled up-smelling..when we entered the Bab-Al-Aziziya compound of Gaddafi.
In Libya-they call it Tifna-Who are we to say anything about these people? my friend said. It is they who have suffered most at the hands of the regime. The international contract workers were not touched by the regime” one experienced expatriate worker remarked.
“http://prashantbhatt.com/2011/09/18/how-i-reached-here-musings-in-a-libyan-camp/
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We don’t have time to care. Our fantastic, modern society has most of us flat out treading water trying to keep from slipping under.
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Exactly. And maybe that’s part of the plan.
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There are certainly many, many examples in the world of people who ‘don’t care as long as i get paid’ From those like the man in your photo, to politicians down to shop assistants everywhere.The general attitude seems to be i’m only here for the money and i don’t give a toss about you. What a world we live in, i find it rather frightening that there is such little regard for either human or animal life, how does someone inflict physical suffering on another and still manage to sleep at night——–it’s beyond me.
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There seems little sense of society or of sacrifice or service to others. Humanity somehow being reduced to a narrow dog-eat-dog mentality, an everyone for themselves mass money grab. Our politicians have succeeded in divide and rule, god knows where this is heading… but there again, few really care.
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Hmmm. What was it the Bible said about money?
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I know, Mr Wonderer – el filthy lucre. And the compatriot god of the east, Krishna, said the entire world (of humans) is moving for the sake of sexual lust alone.
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