SYMPTOMS OF FAILING SYSTEM

Sir,

To most I am a normal guy with my whole life ahead of me, but to me I am a human being who’s confined by a broken century. By broken century I mean this fabricated society around me, where luck determines rights and one person’s fortune depends on another’s inequality. This is the era of capitalism, competition and industrial revolution. The era where profit comes first before corruption and everything is counterfeit production.

In these times, we reward ignorance and sacrifice integrity for acceptance. We deliberately destroy the environment and glorify idiocy over real intelligence. Welcome to the 21st Century, the century of Instagram and Facebook. In this century, you will be ignored for your morals yet worshipped for your looks. Because selfishness is portrayed as strength and kindness is mistaken for weakness. We’ve been taught to believe that to be successful, we need to be wealthy. Real virtues like honour have become irrelevant and people are now defined by their financial prosperity.

Why is kicking a ball around a field worshipped by millions when starving children get little or no recognition? Why are phones, cars and possessions more of a concern than climate change and animal extinction? Why is pop culture and entertainment prioritised over world injustice and hunger? Why are celebrities seen as role models for selling corrupt messages? Why do we make stupid people famous for being vulgar? What is it that we care about now? What if these are illusions and famous people are just people? People who manipulate and trick you? Why do we exploit and kill animals weaker than us because we are on top of the food chain? We treat some animals well, but only on the condition that they offer us personal gain. Why do we keep fracking, industrialising, and burning fossil fuels? That’s false innovation. Rapid unsustainable infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. It will lead us to the collapse of civilisation.

If you haven’t noticed the problem, then you haven’t been paying attention. We need to wake up because as a species, we are not headed in the right direction. Is it true that humans are intelligent? Or are we ignorant? Can anybody hear me? Is honesty really a virtue if nobody wants to hear the truth? It makes no sense to me. Why should we work for a system which makes the selfish rich and the selfless poor? How can we say this is fair and working?

I don’t care if I’m a student or a professor, an employee or a CEO, because it’s the game itself that’s broken. Success depends on who you know not what you know. The majority are being exploited. This is the reality of everyday.
The patrons of society bathe in greed while the common people slave away. Can anyone see it? We are living a lie. Some people win but most people lose because this system only benefits a few. It’s lagging and dysfunctional. Capitalism rewards the wrong people. Prosperity isn’t earned anymore. It is a privilege dependent on exploiting the poor. These are the symptoms of a failing system.

Baphatse G Dhladhla

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