Objective Reality

And how we use it to achieve equality

We seem to be at some kind of turning point in history, where all of the things that have been the underlying foundations of how our society works are being called into question. We're having the emergence of identity politics in the sense that, for the first time in history, minority groups are starting to have a voice. The world-wide community of the web, for all the evil ways in which humans have subsequently used it, has brought about an increase in the ability for minority and oppressed communities to find and communicate with each other around the world.

A lot of what we're seeing politically all around the world has happened multiple times before in ways where we've seen the only resolution as, historically either through wars or revolutions. The difference this time around is that, for the first time, there are several global causes that are affecting everyone. So we've got climate change. We've got the emergence of identity rights, so things like neurodivergence, LGBTQIA+, and all of those intersectional communities that overlap. We've got people fighting for disability rights. We've got ever-increasing amounts of information on these things that are forcing us, as a society, to think less rigidly about things that we've always thought of as societal pillars of fact—things we have just accepted to be the case.

We are now realising, as a society, that a lot of them no longer apply. Some of them never did apply and were forced upon us by the insecurity of people in power who wanted to retain that power. What we've seen with the rise in the number of billionaires and the amount of money that they have is that there is an amount of money somebody needs to live, and then there is an amount of money beyond which no one needs anything more to survive in the most comfortable circumstances. And so, when people get beyond that, they seem to develop a notion that they are above other people, that they are greater than other people, and that this entitles them to use their wealth—not for assets—but to buy power.

They do this through lobbying governments or through buying media outlets so that they can control the public narrative on any issue. This allows them to demonise the vulnerable and deflect attention away from themselves. This is something that has been happening for a long time, but this increase in the ability to communicate and organise has meant that there is starting to be a sort of class awakening.

With cases like Luigi Mangione, one person has committed one heinous crime, but an argument could be made that it is no more morally heinous than an act carried out by a government at war. This raises the question of morality during war: killing enemy combatants is not considered murder in the sense that you can be tried for it, and yet it is still the taking of a human life. There is this strange social contract between the state and the soldier on the front line—that person having volunteered to, in the right circumstances, give their life to protect this greater ideal, and also to repeatedly commit an act which is quite rightly outlawed, outside the sphere of war.

This brings us back to Luigi Mangione and the fact that there is this kind of civil war in the States, and around the world, that has been going on for quite some time. But it’s not the one portrayed by the media. It's not the war between left and right—that’s the phony war to distract people. Ultimately, the war is between those that have wealth and those that don’t. Those that have wealth want to consolidate power and simultaneously remove power from those who do not have wealth.

This is an ongoing cold war. It's undeclared, but it’s happening. From that point of view, we are reaching a point in history where it could be argued that what Luigi did was not murder or terrorism—it was an act of war against his oppressors, who had long since declared war on him. Because, by financial means, the health industry in America—"health industry" being a combination of words that should never exist—is about making money. It is a profit-making machine. That is why it exists. The necessity to create profit, within the way that those organisations are governed, far outweighs the priority of healing human beings or keeping human beings healthy.

So, in essence, those with wealth—those who can afford the medical services that are required, those who hold the means to control how those products and services are priced—have long since declared war on anyone in the class that cannot afford basic healthcare, which should be a human right in a decent society. And this begs the question: are we a decent society anymore? What is it that makes a decent society? Surely, it is a community that cares for everyone.

Countless studies show that caring works more effectively than this endless focus on profit. But the long and the short of it is that those with money and power will continue to try to hold that money and power and influence the laws to ensure that they can continue to do so—until such time as we as a society decide to no longer permit that hoarding and controlling to happen.

Now, within a few weeks of Luigi committing his first act of war on behalf of the oppressed, we see Murdoch in court—eventually settling out of court but essentially admitting guilt—acknowledging that his news organisation, for the past 20–25 years, has been using all kinds of illegal monitoring and surveillance and actively conspiring covering it up. This is important for a lot of reasons. The case was settled out of court, so it doesn't allow for further punishment financially, which is ultimately how he will likely need to be eliminated from the equation—by bringing all of his money back to the state so that it can be used to provide services for those harmed.

The outcome included an apology and an admission of crimes, which now opens the door for prosecutors to step in and say, "This is no longer acceptable." They could declare that such an organisation is no longer allowed to operate any kind of information-disseminating service, or that all of the company's assets—everything owned by the company—must be returned to the public purse.

This is the beginning of a process. There is a temptation to think that it’s not enough—that one thing changing is not enough. And, yes, things are continuing to get worse. Unfortunately, that’s just the nature of things. Until there is a reason compelling enough to move enough people to act, things will get worse. We just have to be that reason.

The key is that no single change will bring about the change we need, but a vast number of small changes will. Of all the people in the world, the number who know how things need to change is minuscule.

There are people like Rutger Bregman and Gary Stevenson putting the word out about how things can work and why things are the way they are, but they have little reach, outside the bubble of other like-minded people. The only reason the wealthy minority of sociopaths and psychopaths has so much power is because they control the narrative. Yet we vastly outnumber them.

The key is this: alongside the short-term battles, the long-term goal must be raising awareness of the unfairness of the system. The more people who understand that this system is at the root of most suffering, the better chance we have at achieving change.

We all have to become not just activists, but communicators, educators, disseminators. We must evangelise for objective reality, because so much of the information fed to us is designed to condition us to accept the status quo. This comes back to the conditioned mentality where we believe those with wealth and power must somehow deserve it.

The result is that the majority of people on Earth live with ongoing stress, misery, uncertainty, and fear—much of which could be resolved by redistributing resources. Money doesn’t make you happy, but studies show that a lack of money is proven to be deeply psychologically damaging.

We are in a position to remove poverty as a concept. The resources exist to protect and develop the environment and resolve many issues. But we remain locked into a capitalist narrative where those with money break everything, and we live with the consequences.

Ultimately, we need to reassess, throw away biases, and open ourselves to new perspectives. We need to be critical of systems, rather than people, and recognise that many of these systems are designed to make us fight each other while distracting us from the real war—between those that have and those that don’t.