Thread by @thomasafine

Planet Earth is an oligarchy. This disparity removes opportunities for the poor. It is the antithesis of the American Dream.
thinkprogress.org/26-billionaire…

[Big zig-zag, but I promise its related:]
There's this idea that religion has fostered many conflicts and wars in our history. It's a misguided notion.
War comes from power. Each and every conflict where religion led to war, it happened because religion was the dominant power.

Historically religion-as-power-structure was the norm. But gradually, governments became more powerful than religions, and our modern understanding of war is government versus government. But really, that's just how power is concentrated these days. Or was.

Governments are losing relevance, as more and more power is concentrated in the monetary system, rather than a political or religious system. Our future world conflicts will be corporations manipulating wars for their own benefit.

This is the true origin for nearly all historical human conflicts. The existing power structure is threatened by the truth coming out, so that power structure oppresses the people, shifts the blame, and gets them to fight each other.

Given the corporate control of all of our media, you can argue that they are doing this here, now. They have prevented any national dialogue about corporate reform, instead increasing divisions and setting us against each other.