(this adaptation by annalivia, from an original by my beloved friend who can be found at
www.globalhappiness.org )<br><br><br><br><br>--ANOTHER YEAR<br>A BIOGRAPHY OF MY SPIRIT<br><br><br>another year of madness<br>another year of landmine amputees<br>another year of fantastically overpaid and underpaid<br>another year of struggle of all against all<br>another year of grab all you can<br>another year of being trampled by everyone above and trampling all those below<br>another million girls sold into sexual slavery<br>another million blinded for lack of vitamin A<br><br>another year of stupidity<br>another year of intelligence as useful as stupidity<br><br>another year of pride in our achievements<br>another year without fairpay<br>another year of torture, oppression, secret police, disappearings<br>another year of confidence of things being as they should be<br>another year of genocides, 9/11s, biafras, terrorists, bhopals<br>another year of ford pintos, thalidomides, death camps<br>another year without shame or sorrow<br>another year of waste of buildings, people, talents<br>another year with pay from a million times to a 1000th of fairpay<br>another year of war, crime, disturbance, crises, depressions, mafias, triads<br>another year of nonearners taking over 90% of earnings<br><br>another year of billions with trillions starving 50 million to death <br><br>another year of every family in the world working average hard creating US$75,000 of wealth<br>another year without taking out of the social pool of wealth only as much as you put in<br>another year of magazine gossip of the rich and famous<br>another year of action, horror, drama, sci fi, thriller, war, comedy, children's dvds<br>another year of government by mafias<br>another year of between a 10th and a 1000th of fairpay for 90% of families<br>another year of riots, protests, massacres<br><br>another year of giants of overpay and overpower trampling lives, peace, safety, justice and democracy<br>another year of pulling leaves<br>another year of hope fatigue<br>another year of the human chimpanzee not knowing the connection of justice and happiness<br>another year of US$1 million world income per starving person<br>another year of acting like everything is fine<br>another year of anxieties, money worries, job worries, corporate infighting, dangerous streets<br>another year of stress, mental breakdown, troubles, abuses<br><br>another year of ostrichism<br>another year of not knowing that the golden rule is good sense<br>another year of hurting and being hurt<br>another year of vendetta endless revenging<br>another year of tyrants driving their millions of slaves to death in war<br>another year of thinking the superoverpaid are great<br>another year of not knowing that no one can contribute to the social pool of wealth more than twice the average of 50 hours a week<br>another year of bullets and bombs<br>another year of everyone knowing that taxing the income of 99% of the people 99% would lead to extreme disturbance and endless problems<br>another year of everyone not knowing that 90% of people are taxed between 90% and 99.9%<br><br>another year of silence on this superglaring point from all our most honoured thinkers<br><br>another year of humans sharing 98.4% of the genes of chimpanzees <br><br>another year of perfect commitment to ‘everything I get is mine’<br>another year of superscarcity when there is plenty for all<br>another year of stealing from workers by threat of unemployment<br>another year of vast horrendous unnecessary suffering for overpaid and underpaid<br><br>another year in which all have a birthright to US$75,000 a year per family working average hard, to 10 acres of arable land per family, and to 1/nth of all the natural wealth of the world per person, where n is the human population<br><br>another year in which overpay has robbed everyone - overpaid and underpaid - of peace, safety, wealth, and happiness<br>another year of wealth drifting from underpaid to overpaid<br>another year in which the 1% overpaid take over 90% of wealth<br>another year in which the 99% underpaid do not campaign for fairpay, peace and happiness<br>another year in which the 1% overpaid do not campaign for fairpay, peace and happiness<br>another year in which 90% of human talent and brains are wasted by gross underpay<br>another year in which population is uncontrollable because of underpay<br>another year in which environmental degradation is uncontrollable because of overpower<br><br>another year in which topsoil is being lost at the rate of 100% per 100 years<br><br>another year in which the economy is deprived of the spending power of 90% of people<br>another year in which war and weaponry increase<br>another year in which we revel in our achievements, our tall buildings, our advances in science<br>another year in which the weaponry can destroy all planet life 60 times over<br>another year in which humans are unalarmed<br><br>another year in which this mother of all messages will not spread like wildfire<br>another year in which people will wish each other a happy new year<br>another year in which people will think that money is unimportant<br>another year in which people will work for money<br>another year in which people will have confused and inadequate ideas<br>another year in which people will think pursuit of pleasure sufficient<br>another year in which people will slight realism<br>another year in which people will not respond to reality<br>another year in which people will treat themselves at Christmas<br>another year in which people will shoot the messenger<br>another year in which people will punish the teachers of happiness<br>another year in which people will think they are awake and at peace<br>another year in which people will think they can have democracy without the people taking responsibility<br><br>another year in which we will be as far as possible from liberty, equality and fraternity<br>another year in which people will be valued in proportion to their assets<br>another year in which people will not know injustice is theft<br>another year in which people will not know theft is dangerous<br>another year in which people will not know that ‘everything I get is mine’, is theft<br>another year in which people will not know that unlimited power is unlimited sadism<br>another year in which people will not know that they are being taxed by inflation<br>another year in which people will not know that they are giving 10s of $1000s to the overpaid<br>another year in which 99% will not know they would be richer with fairpay<br>another year in which 100% will not know they would be infinitely better off with fairpay<br><br>another year in which people will not know that none of the reasons for higher than average pay per hour - business risk, responsibility, brains, talent, skill, experience - are sound<br>another year in which people will not know that siding with higher pay for business risk, responsiblity, brains, talent, skill, experience, will make 100% of them infinitely poorer in happiness<br>another year in which people will not know that every transaction causes a shift of wealth from earners to nonearners<br><br>another year in which people, despite knowing that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and that this is not because of the rich working harder and harder and the poor working less and less, do not know that this is unjust, and that this injustice has turned the human world into a whirlwind of suffering<br>another year in which people will not know that society needs, as the mother of all needs, counterbalances to the ceaseless drift of wealth to the overpaid<br><br>another year in which people will not know the survival importance of limiting overpay and underpay<br><br>another year in which people will think that pay from a million times to 1000th of the average must somehow be right<br>another year in which people will not know that our greater intelligence has made us vastly more suffering than the other animals<br>another year in which we will lack the intelligence to be masters of money<br><br>another year in which everyone will successfully resist the impression of this message<br><br>another year in which the most overpaid will take out a million hours' work for every one he puts in to the social pool of wealth created by work<br>another year in which just 6000 being overpaid up to a million times the fairpay would take all the earnings off the 3 billion workers, and we are within 10% of that<br>another year in which housewives and students will not be paid<br>another year in which housewives and students could and should be paid US$15 an hour<br>another year in which genuine workers will have been elbowed out by the more aggressive and moneyhungry in all overpaid jobs, ruining the quality of work in those jobs<br>another year in which humans will wallow in maximal injustice and call it peace and happiness<br>another year in which no one will show me I am wrong and no one will say I am right<br>another year of viagra spam <br> <p></p><i></i>
by AnnaLivia » Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:21 pm 