UK riots

[Kiko]

a lot of stuff has been suppressed for a very long time and all it needs is a trigger to unleash it . its complex and this is an oversimplification but if u look around the world in general people are speaking out against the inequalities they have been suffering for years and years. and i think it ties in very much with the mayan calendar. many times i get the feeling this planet is a prison just by the way power is structured.

I feel much the same way too. It is very complex, but like most things, paradoxically quite simple at the same time. The repression and control of people takes many forms, such as political, financial, religious, and so on. They amount to much the same thing, with one being the easily identifiable factor in most cases. For example, in Europe the many months of riots appear to be a symptom of financial ruin and the slow death of capitalism. In the Middle East the riots appear to be symptomatic of control and persecution by religious means.

An aspect I find interesting is the way each large energy group, ie., country population, blames 'outside' influences. Not that global media are accurate or truthful, but for example, it was reported here recently that President Obama blames the economic failures of Europe rippling to the USA and causing their crash. The UK blames the European Union. Various Middle East countries now in terrible strife blame both America and all of Europe, or Israel, and so on.

All of this does seem symptomatic of the predicted 'end times', and I would agree with anyone who feels that we are living in the end times right now. But it does not mean 'the end of time', or the ruin of the world to me. I see it as the ruin and end of old ways of working and controlling nations, and it is all just part of gradual change which seems all the more dangerous because events are happening more rapidly now.

As someone said elsewhere, we are best served by letting go of the fear that masses of people are generating and spreading, and many are doing so quite naturally. The media likes to report that people in the streets are terrified, but in fact some people walk casually through an area where gangs of youth are looting and burning, shrug and walk on without harm. The violence does seem to be directed at 'the man' in charge, but most do not know who exactly to target in their frustration with life, so it becomes a mindless mob expression of pent up frustration which turns into, "Hey, I will get me some new togs for free!"

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There is a well written article published today about the riots (admittedly in a trashy online newspaper) at http://goo.gl/WVe7F. You may want to use a browser with an advert blocker to stop the rubbish on the page from distracting.