the people who run the world

The People Who Run the World

The world
is run
by people
who left
to their
own resources
could never
create the
machinery with
which they
run the
world –
guns &
bombs cars
& planes
& video
games
telescopes
TVs
cell phones
electric chairs
& cathedrals.


The only
thing the
people who
run the world
know about
is power
& how to
get it.


The only
thing they’re
good at
is appropriation.


They feed on
the beauty
talent
goodness &
genius of
others,
they debase
it &
manipulate it.


The only
thing the
people who
run the
world came
up with
on their
own is
money, an
abstraction
that makes
beauty
talent
goodness &
genius go
flatline.


Do we
really
need them?


Can we
live
without them?

*1. Lord Jacob de Rothschild. 2. His son Nathaniel. 3. Baron John de Rothschild 4. Sir Evelyn de Rothschild 5. David Rockefeller 6. Nathan Warburg 7. Henry Kissinger 8. George Soros 9. Paul Volcker 10. Larry Summers 11. Lloyd Blankfein 12. Ben Shalom

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