Originally Posted by
OGKnickfan
These are not mutually exclusive things, we can have a united world, free of petty divisions, without being controlled by rich and powerful puppeteers.
I think you give the powerful too much credit, and I think you give the common people too little. The evil thoughts, and actions, that pervade everything are not the result of mind control, we are the cause.
As for money, I know you want to carry gold bricks around with you, in order to make purchases, but even that is something that's valued according to human perception. The dollar is just a piece of paper, but the buyer and seller both trust in its value and practicality (human perception), which is why it has value.
Mathematically, a few people, their beliefs and wealth, cannot control billions of others. The truth is that we acquiesce to the will of the few. The poor want to be the rich, most of the rich once were poor or have ancestors that were. We produce them, they don't produce us. We do the evil in the world, and we could transform everything, if we each had the strength of character to pass every test placed in front of us. Because we don't, the world is in such a horrible condition, and people will continue to suffer for an indeterminate amount of time.