The New "Robin Hood" Law OR
The Start of Equal Opportunities OR
Whatever You Want to Call It
INTRODUCTION
(feel free to skip this part)
I know (in fact.. i think) i'm not the first one to come up with this idea but the way i am, i will never consult literature just to make sure.
I've allways respected other people's opinions and when they match or closely resemble mine i am very proud and feel great accomplishment and satisfaction, but i will never be a blind follower of anyone or anything. I will question highest authorithies and might even totally disapprove of something the whole world says i shoud approve of. I think you should do the same thing and allways think for yourself.
No philosopher or scientist (or any other "great unquestionable authority" on anything) can ever tell you how to live and perceive your life or what kind of human being you will be.
You should only judge yourself for you will allways know when you could have done the right thing, but didn't.
Even when you fool yourself and lie to yourself, you will know.
STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
What i've been thinking about for quite some time is beginning to have a name attached to it in my thought patterns or whatever they are. It's because you allways have to find a way to transfer, to convey your message upon other people. Some of them are smarter than you, some aren't, but we are not better or worse because of it. All people like it when they see or hear thoughts of another human being that they can understand.
So i have gradually over time began to use a name that about sums up my main point in this matter - The Robin Hood Law.
I've wanted to somehow start this topic off anywhere and on any scale. Local or global. Big or small. Doesn't matter just as long as it doesn't end up like some of my other ideas that get overwhelmed with a swarm of fresh, new ones. Didn't want it to happen to this one. Allthough it might not be the greatest idea i ever had (and forgotten about) i think it's rather important.
The idea is (and i will draw it for you) that we have a society built upon centuries and milleniums of rather primitive, uncivilized, unjust history. History that was allways shaped and influenced by blind accumulation of power. By power i mean assets, in most, but not all cases. Gold, land, slaves, money, any kind of goods were blindly accumulated because that's the way a man could feel safe and in control. In those cruel and primitive days it often seemed like the only thing to do in order to get what you want, in order to have any real influence on the world arround you. More power and when you get it, more power. In any form.
The 21st century, or the information age brought a flood of opinions expressed, thoughts exchanged and we are witnessing a sort of a revolution going on in terms of common people speaking out and teaming up, collaborating to correct what they see is wrong arround them or simply trying to improve an average man's life... or more precisely, every man's life.
It's happening right now and it's "in its diapers", so to speak.
It's not a violent revolution, you might even exclude the word revolution alltogether.
It's a river that's calmly and confidently flowing toward it's natural goal, whatever or wherever it may be.
I've drawn a picture
It represents the earth and it's population concerning their "financial" status.
The GREEN part of our planet is in "the safe" meaning that they can do anything they want because their existence is assured. They won't starve and they don't have to live in the parts of the world where human rights are the last on the list of priorities. They enjoy a very comfortable life, endulge themselves in every possible way that they can imagine, with a few worthy exceptions that stop to think and really do care about other people, their needs and their rights.
The YELLOW part represents those of us who have the opportunity to make a difference, the majority of people on this planet who work for a living, didn't inherit tons of gold or oil, whatever people inherit these days. They don't cheat anyone and don't really care about "making it big" or they're not determined/tallented enough to realy "make it big" in terms of accumulating power. Some of these people work and live very hard lives, with occasional bits of joy and very little time for entertainment or anything else they would wanna do besides work for survival. Nobody is really asking them what they think is wrong or what should be fixed with the money and products they generate and provide services that make the world tick and make all the "wealthy" people more wealthy. I could go on and on but thats enough i think.
The RED part represents the people who are not able to choose their way in life. They are simply pushed into a situation that will make them starve, die of disease or a bullet or a bomb, or radiation.. or be a victim of intollerance and ignorance.
Now the first picture i drew isn't entirely accurate. It's too optimistic, healthy and sane to represent our reality.
A more accurate
and an even worse drawing :)
looks like this.
...I KNOW, I KNOW
IT LOOKS LIKE A BROKEN CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATION : ))))
BUT THIS IS NOT FUNNY !! : ))
NO, REALLY, IT'S NOT. : |
Here you can see our world, deformed through milleniums of struggle for power.
The GREEN "spike" on top is all-but-completely-detached from the rest of the population.
A lot of the YELLOW-status people are poisoned by the idea of getting into the imaginary "spike", an idea supported by nothing but imaginary numbers in secret bank accounts.
The YELLOW-statuspeople are intentionally being poisoned and lied to in order to keep this illusion of power and make people envy the ones who are "better off" and hunger for it.
All in order to stop the people from getting what they really want, what they know is right and true, but are too busy chasing after their crumbs of power.
The people "in the RED" are standing on thin ground, the earth is eroding arround them. The sun is burning through the holes, and they have no home, nowhere to hide. Nobody taught them how to survive. Nobody was there to feed them untill they got bigger. All they ever got was misery and death.
This world doesn't love them, and they don't have to think about it. It's obvious.
What i'm proposing is a law, an initiative in any form. To enforce moderation of power. To cut a little bit off the spike and move it right down to the erroding bottom. Every now and then when things get too rough. And no organisations. No human aid -you-can't-see-what-we're-doing-but-it's-all-good kind of thing. An exact ammount (based on a percentage) shall be subtracted, and then evenly divided.
And maybe i'll continue this story later... right now it's very hot and the dawn is upon this part of the beautiful world we all call Earth.
Well what do you say?
Would you vote for the Robin Hood Law?
No more all-powerfull people who can do what ever they want with anyone or anything?
No more 2 people doing exact same jobs but for 20 times less money compared to one another?
No more poor tortured human beings who never had their chance?
Would you vote for something like that?
Education, creation, working together to make this world better and safer and pretty as it once was?
WOULD YOU?
P.S.
AFTER i wrote this i looked up "Robin Hood Law" on Google and to my surprise there allready is such a thing. But it's some minor Texas (USA) law which is ok by my standards (concerns taxes and education) but not really related to my idea and it obviously doesn't solve any major problems.
