If we do not care for each other we are lost

I was in a conversation yesterday with a wealthy person. There was a causal comment made about how the current President of the United States is doing really well with the economy. If this is true, it is only for the very wealthy members of the economy. Everyone else be damned.  

And another comment about a 15-year-old granddaughter who has ambitions to make money from making money. This young woman has been raised with excess, not knowing a single moment of economic precarity. I wonder how anyone can have such an ignoble purpose, although granted, she is only 15. 

This against a backdrop of people seeking refuge, often from countries hollowed out by the global north, and in particular, the United States, being deported to South Sudan. A country on another continent, and one suffering terrible war, famine and injustice. Clearly, some mercenary groups were paid a lot of money to receive people who have no language, culture or identity with South Sudan. It is the live-streamed 2025 version of slave ships, only this time, planes, and people being shipped into Africa from America, rather than to America from Africa.

Human irrelevancies.

Cruelty, selfishness and a complete lack of awareness of others, of suffering, of the deliberate infliction of hardship on most of the global south by the global north to extract as much as possible, where people are irrelevant. The delusional meritocracy, so easy to achieve when your life is seeded with privilege, access and knowledge gateways.

It is so unbelievably cruel, I can hardly breathe. 

If we do not care for each other, we are truly lost as humanity. 

Photo July 6th 2025, Article written July 7th 2025