Power Over: the Opportunistic Virus

The common element destroying our planet is Power Over. The most horrifically impelling tool of Power Over is money.

Money is power. Money is the power to control ones life, ones existence, and today in our world, to control others. Money is the power to control truth. Money is the tool of the Power Over mongers.

Power Over is the drive within some people to control and to have. The drive to acquire Power Over is of such intensity they will let nothing, no one, nor any altruistic trend interfere with the onward march of acquisition and control. No person, no ideological paradigm, no sense of the common good is sacred to the Power Over mongers. They will do, say, or destroy anything or anyone in their path. They will do so without a moment's thought as to the eventual impact on the planet or its people.

They will exploit any situation to their advantage. Death and destruction is just another opportunity to obtain more Power Over. A moment's weakness is all it takes. As an opportunistic virus invades the human body during lowered resistance, so too do the Power Over mongers move in to exploit any weakened condition. Famine, death, destruction, war are the energies on which they feed.

We as concerned inhabitants of this planet are left with the task of battling the Power Over mongers on thousands of fronts; under attack as we are from all sides. Our environment, civil rights, peace on earth, religious rights, human rights, human decency, animal rights and the list goes on and on, are constantly under attack by those who would exploit anything of use to them in their quest for Power Over.

We run around as so many ants after an olive has been dropped in our midst disrupting our orderly existence and movement. We split into fragments of movements to fight environmental destruction, warmongering, repressive laws, famine, flood, exploitation of workers, women, children, animals and our planet. We are a handful here and there, running and fighting on all fronts at once, fighting the Power Over mongers and fighting each other. As we fight, they forge ahead destructively and terribly. They march over us as so much detritus to be shoved aside discarded and abandoned, with no more thought than we give the colony of ants under our feet. We are nothing to them but tools to be exploited.

This is a reminder of what we are up against. This is a reminder to carry on the good fight. This is a caution that we not become as they; sterile, cruel, disconnected and unconcerned; power crazed. This is a call to unite as we battle for our very existence against the opportunistic virus of Power Over.