After my observations about the capitalism (and other) posts on here . .

It seems the largest and most popular posts on this site have been ones about capitalism being the fundamental cause of upset and depressions, and also whether or not society as a whole is ‘evil’.  It made me think very deeply about these topics, as I too am very depressed about how the world is, and I spoke to the people in my life about these topics also. It seems that most people (except on here) are unwilling to go deep into these concerns, the conversation always stops when it becomes to horrid for the listener. So, I thought of these things this way;  What if another species landed on our planet, and after observing all the different departments  (countries), asked us questions. I think the conversation would go something like this (provided of course all those concerned spoke English)

(A = alien) (H = human)

A arrives in a crowded bar in Manhattan and begins his conversation with a human . . 

A = “Are you aware that just across the water, many of you are starving and are being tortured?”

H = “eer what? Well, er yeah, so what?”

A = “Oh I’m sorry, I thought that would concern you. Does it not?”

H = “Oh sure it does! But there isn’t much I can do about it is there?”

A = “So who can? Do you not have a leader, someone in charge?”

H = “Yeah that’ll be the government but they’re all arseholes, and they certainly don’t listen to the likes of me”

A = “Really? So you don’t get a chance to talk to them, ever?”

H = “that’s right”

A = “So why are they your leaders?”

H = “Oh fuck, it’s a long complicated story okay, you wouldn’t understand”

A = “try me”

H = “I guess there are channels I could go down to make a complaint but that’s a long process and I don’t even really know how to do it, and plus they’re not going to pay any attention to just me are they?”

A = “How come you ‘don’t really know how to do it’?”

H = “Well alright if I’m honest, I haven’t had the time to look into that sort of thing”

A = “but you have time now, but you’re choosing to drink and dance and pull women instead?”

H = “Haha you’re a funny fucking alien! Listen, a man’s gotta unwind you know, I have a hard job, I’d go insane if I didn’t have a blow out at the weekends.”

A = “I see. So what’s happening to a lot of you doesn’t really concern you, not any more than your ‘blow out’ does?”

H = “Yeah it concerns me you cheeky bastard, but I can’t do something on my own”

A = “But you’re the first human I have spoken with, are you saying that no other human is that concerned either?”

H = “Listen nosey alien, this place isn’t paradise okay, we have shit going down here for sure, but right here in Manhattan, it’s not happening, so why should I go around troubling myself with what’s going on in other countries?”

A = “Well I saw that right next door there is a child being abused by her father, and in many houses along this street some people are starving and there are people out on the street that have no homes to go to”

H = “Yeah well that stuff goes on all the time, it’s human nature, some humans are bad and some are good, you just gotta keep your head down and get on with your own life”

A = “Human ‘nature’ ? I need to look this up. From my observations, there are very few bad people. The majority of the human is good, many of those good people are so very unhappy with what’s happening here that they are nasty to others, but if their lives were improved they would be better, nicer people. They are victims of circumstances. Regardless of that, what about the really bad ones, for instance, the man who is raping his child next door? Won’t your leaders stop this from happening?”

H = “well they try to, they make laws about this kind of shit, but these laws are weird and many of these bad people get away or get off on what’s called a ‘technicality’ ”

A = “So you are not wholly pleased with your leaders?”

H = “No”

A = “who pays them to do their job?”

H = “Us. Me. Everyone”

A = “so you continue to pay your leaders and yet the job is not getting done very well?”

H = “you can’t just stop paying them or you go to jail”

A = “you’re kidding right?”

H = “No”

A = “but they can’t put all of you in jail, there’s many more of you than there are of them”

H = “Listen you can’t just not pay your taxes because shit happens. I don’t wanna go to jail, and right now I don’t even want this conversation, you’re making me feel like shit and I’m out for a good time.”

A = “Okay I will leave you alone”

A reports back = “Very strange activity there on earth, these humans are stupid, I thought they were supposed to be evolved by now? I think there are a few bad seeds holding this species back, they have total control over how they think and what they do. The main flaw here is that humans are not troubled by evil doings, as long as it doesn’t personally affect them. My conclusion is that they all must be evil  in that case, some act it out, some do nothing to stop it and make excuses, and some even try to trick their own thinking into pretending it’s a myth. If you give a human something shiney to look at, they will gladly turn a blind eye to you torturing his mate. Weird. Let’s leave earth alone, beam me up scotty.

I think sometimes to simplify a problem as much as you can, or to see it as a child would see it, is the way you get the best (and most obvious) answer. We have a brilliant way of talking talking talking as many excuses as we can, in order to avoid the cold hard truth.