"Freebooters and Plunderers Ltd"
Here, however, someone could be indignant and say:
― Why
are you telling me all this and showing me
these charts?
Did you perhaps intend
to suggest that Europe stops
using energy in order
to get to the level of Africa?
Or maybe you want me,
personally, not to use
my car because my
neighbour hasn't got one?
What can I say?
He would be rightly indignant at the mere
suspicion
of such a proposal.
The reference to the two tunics is long forgotten.
No one dares to suggest it seriously nowadays.
The
slogan-orders of contemporary
society to
the modern man.
The prevailing view of freedom,
progress and prosperity teaches
something different.
Freedom, progress
and prosperity!
Are these not the three slogans?
(Ah, I forgot, also the equality of opportunity).
Is this not what is drummed into us every day?
― Do
what you can to have a good time,
and don't ask how it
will be tomorrow,
or how the others are
doing.
Look at the earth.
If there are any
forests,
cut them down to make
firewood or toothpicks.
Look at the sea too,
if there are any
whales,
kill them for their
oil.
Search under the earth
too.
If you find coal,
burn it to make
electricity,
if you find oil,
put it in your car to
go shopping.
What is wrong with
that?
Indeed.
According to the prevailing perception
this behaviour is absolutely correct.
Especially now with the New Order, with
globalization,
now you will see freedom, progress and prosperity, and
let's not forget equality of opportunities.
Only, it seems to me that here something cannot be right.
Is it possible that our
attitude towards
the world is based on the
mentality
and behaviour of robbers?
We have entered the
treasure chamber
and are grabbing everything
we find?
Who inspired us with
this
"philosophy of
plunder"
and we made it to our
standard?
Is it possible for all this to go unpunished?
What lies behind the idea that
everything is allowed, provided we have
fast, easy and painless profit?