Nothing is Sacred….everything is for sale.
I used to joke that one day you will have to pay for the air. Now people want to sell “wind rights” in property sales.
That way they can profit on their claim to the movement of the air over a particular piece of the earth.
They hope for a multinational corporation they know virtually nothing about to build huge turbines on sticks with blades to be moved by this airflow. The more of these things they can fill the land with, the better. Who could doubt the rightness of this? Their private property is sacred. You can tell by how they admire it
by how they treat it and use it. They are very proud.
I ask myself….what do I have rights to?
A peaceful place to live? No.
A beautiful place to live. No.
A healthy place to live? No.
Experience has shown I don’t have a right to those.
It seems I have the right to PAY for the environment I’d like. It’s my fault if I don’t have the money. The consequence of my inadequate money hoarding is being at the mercy of those with more. Getting your way is costly.
Manifest Destiny. Nothing is sacred but the economy & progress (by the parameters of those with the wealth). Everything is for sale. Everything is monetized. Aborted fetuses to the air, it is all up for grabs. Life is daily sacrificed to it. Peace and escape are only possible after death. While alive, human beings are driven by any means necessary to get energy credits to keep buying less for more. Claw your way over fellow beings in a race to the bottom. Take comfort in knowing you had no choice.
I do not claim any religion or doctrine of faith, but it is no challenge for me to consider that a Devil rules this reality.
What can be done?
Experience has fortified my resolve to optimize my internal environment and the body that houses it. I’m into patterns of behavior that facilitate this. It’s the only thing I’ve found that works for me. An arsenal against the onslaught of Manifest Destiny I’m surrounded by. It helps me maintain emotional & spiritual regulation and not lose my heart to darkness.