As a follow-up to last week’s post, I wanted to elaborate on the last sentence where I state that “we should be evolving as a species and making conscious decisions about why giving up money would be in the best interest of us all.”
I felt moved to do so after overhearing a song entitled “Revolution of Love” (penned in 2015 by the non-profit organization, Life Vest Inside) which depicts the story of a musician who “utilizes his talents to help a homeless man find hope in a time of despair.”
The song lyrics make the point clearly enough:
So many things I see that I would like to remedy
And save the world from this insanity
And if we all could shift our focus on the positive
We’d know the answer is to live and let live
:
For all the violence to cease we must agree to disagree
To grow beyond power and greed, with selflessness we’ll plant the seed …
I think I already implied what this insanity is all about, but what kindness movements like Life Vest Inside (LVI) miss is that they operate within the paradigm that the concept and use of money will persist. Unfortunately, money will always hinder the best efforts of these movements to “empower, educate and unite the world with kindness.”
Now I don’t wish to knock LVI’s mission because its motives seem pure. However, when they state that “unkindness exists and it varies for every person. Whether it be loneliness, unemployment, lack of education, health issues, distrust, trauma, hardship, no support system, bad experience and so much more,” I can’t help but point out that most of the unkindness listed earlier exists because of money.
The same can be said for anti-poverty and anti-homelessness movements. They exist solely because money exists. In fact, so do many others!
- Anti-sweatshop movements
- Anti-austerity movements
- Anti-capitalist movements
- Anti-materialism movements
- Anti-globalization movements
- Anti-establishment movements
- Anti-war movements
In spite of these organizational movements’ efforts to address and resolve their target issue through awareness campaigns, protest marches, and so on, the fact remains that not one of them has implied that money is the root cause of their issue and should be abandoned.
So, I guess that burden falls to me.
“Be the change you want to see in the world,” they say.
Okay then.
I guess that makes me a new movement: A one-man, anti-money movement.
Humble beginnings!
