FOLLOW UP COMMENTARY ON THE MONEY GAME!

Currently, there are many pundits selling get-rich-quick books based on secret formulas that assure rapid transitions from poverty to excessive wealth. There is something about this kind of thinking that doesn't feel right to me. It is far too close to some very real problems growing in the world with run-away economics that lead to bizarre endings.

I feel that a word of warning should go out to these proponents and their adherents who promulgate such schemes and ideas specifically because:

a) Acquiring easy riches doesn't guarantee individual happiness or moreover, the fulfillment of our collective well-being.

b) According to some leading economic theorists, wealth may actually lead nations into global wars fueled by hatred, greed and violence.

Please read the following information gleaned from the book, World On Fire, by Amy Chua:

"Chua sets the backdrop for her thesis challenging the conventional wisdom that exporting "free market democracy" would transform the world into a "community of modernized, peace-loving nations, and individuals into civic-minded citizens and consumers". Instead, we have witnessed ethnic violence, religous zealotry and hateful resentment. The Balkans, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Rwanda and other recent current eruptions of ethnic violence serve up tragic proof."

The question that arises is, why does this happen? "Well, Chua contends that it's the combination of "market dominant minorities", implementation of unfettered laissez faire capitalism, and rapid democratization enabling impoverished majorities to lash back. The phenomenon of market dominant minorities can occur on a national level, like in the Phillipines, or on a regional level, as in the middle east where 220 million largely poor Arabs co-exist with 5 million more prosperous Jews. Or on a national stage, as America is perceived as controlling the world, to the detriment of natives across the globe. Post 9/11 anti-Americanism was cited - while we view our economic success as the result of entrepreneurial spirit and generations of hard work, others say our wealth and power are the "spoils of plunder, exploitation, and exclusion".

These are valid points to ponder in the rush to get to the top of our Mt. Everest of "resonant" financial success. The warning everyone needs to consider on the way is, "take a little time out to consider the consequences at the end of your rainbow..."

Many blessings!
Nahu Lanham

LET'S MOVE TOWARD THE REALITY OF GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS!

Key phrases probably more than abused in our Money and Success-Oriented Society, are the terms "Upward Mobility, or The Land of Opportunity!" Oh, how those phrases turn me off!

These phrases, I suppose, are meant to imply 'let's get to the top of the heap as fast as we can, and with all the ruthlessness it takes to get there!" Or something of that ilk!

Let's take an honest look at this kind of non-thinking--where is it really coming from? For openers it's originating at the lowest, most primitive part of our limbic system, somewhere back there in that Darwinian "survival of the fittest" "dog-eat-dog" mentality that is at the root of our worst behavior--birthed from the core of our beloved Money Game.

Without moving away from the Money Game we can never expect to move toward World Unity or hope for realistic Global Consciousness. The heart of the issue centers on Money Games that lead to the disease of class struggle.

Change can only come through a rise in consciousness that creates a natural offspring; A UNITED SPIRIT OF SHARING. Moreover, it can't be locked into a Spiritual Movement bound by proselytizing denominational dogma's, classist charity schemes, or hidden political agenda's.
To move into this kind of NEW WORLD, free of MONETARY PERVERSIONS, our entire thinking as a species now tainted by financial achievement ideas, must be thrown out the window, because they blot out our noblest ambitions and dull the capacity for realistically, sincere, unified endeavors of WHOLENESS.

Why,the whole idea of CLASS, WEALTH and SPIRITUALITY are antipodal, even though our present dreams of happiness have become psychologically entangled in the fancies of Prosperity Thinking, which has permeated the core of even our most fervent spiritual endeavors--and we all know who has been responsible for the worst kinds of these monetary exploitations--the very institutions we place so much hope in for the highest and most noble ideas as a people.
Let's face it--Who ends up footing the bill for world reformation and the feeding of the poor? It is the people who know what it is like to be poor, people who can sympathize with the lower end of the financial spectrum, people who have suffered under the thumb of classism.

The savage drive toward individual survival has become a rat race to achieve financial success, an uncessary burden we have carried for far too long. We must climb our way upwards from the muck and the mire of primitive, uncivil, social regressions based on these kinds of petty financial aims, to a New World free of the insane leadership they engender (with those who obviously have devious, barbaric, criminal ambitions)--and began to act and live like Higher Beings.

We as a Species must now began to pull ourselves up to the next level of growth. Our brains and nervous systems have all the neuronal synapses necessary to foster this rise in consciousness, and we have but to take the next step--the step that frees us from the addiction we have to that monster of greed and selfishness that lurks in the illusions of the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR!!

Let us rise like cream to the top of our social game of life and began to act like Global Humanity and leave this savage, classist, monetary parochialism behind us in the dust of an ancient, and soon to be discarded past.

Many blessings!
Nahu Lanham