The Few Rule the Many

President Jacob Zuma visited Muammar Gaddafi once again this week. The talks were to initiate the peaceful resignation of the Libyan leader. The talks went well. However, Muammar is still in power, he is still the cause of many deaths. If that were not enough his actions are influencing the well-being of the whole world, oil prices soar, which in turn cause fuel prices to rise steeply and in turn cause food and commodities to become more expenses. When this process is complete, this one man has taken from every citizen on the planet. 

 

One man influences the economic life of all people. Can this be right? He is a dictator in his own country, but somehow it seems he is dictating the world. Considering this simple fact, we are reminded how all our lives are influenced by the few. Some years ago, South Africans did not know what domestic security was. The few, which is two percent of the population, are hardened criminals. That is nine-hundred and sixty thousand people out of forty-eight million, spread over   one million two-hundred and nineteen thousand and ninety square kilometers, who caused the 47 million others to lock themselves in their houses behind security fences. The few cause a whole nation to live in fear.

For some reason it is imprinted in the minds of man that the few should have sway over the many. It stems from a global mind that came from the era of kings, emperors, and priests. One man caused a world war, and for what. We are so quick to follow a leader without concern for the law of life. When will we see humanity breaking from his mindless bonds? Is it even possible to hope for a world where each person can look on their own hearts, guided by the law of life, and decide within to look out for the best interest of all around them? When dictators will see in themselves how they cause harm to the people and to the world and step away from their actions.  

  

This of course is a futile picture. As long as this world operates on a capitalist mentality where power and possession is the measuring stick of value of life, we will never have a humanity ruled by humanity. We will always need the rulers, the lawmakers, the enforcers, and we will always have those that take advantage of the capitalist system to manipulate those around them for personal gain. The sad truth is seeing ninety-eight percent of the world powerless to change the two percent.