The vanity of strife

There is a lot of hype sprouting from the news corporations about Muslim fundamentalism. The Muslims claim the UK is targeting their 'brothers' and the Islamic faith by defending the actions of say Israel's disproportionate attack of Hizbollah in Lebanon.

This is all just extreme vanity. We know the Muslim terrorists are driven primarly by vanity because of the types of attacks they make e.g. trying to do things on anniversaries, in airports...ok, can't be arsed to make the point here.

What is astonishing is how quickly everyone thinks this is a social problem i.e. caused by some religion or political system. All these problems are caused by excessive competition for scarce resources. Oil comes out of a small hole, the fastest and strongest and best equipped surround it, defend it and then sell it to get rediculously rich. The rest get poor. These poor are the ones screaming at now, not for more Islam just at the injustice of this monority who may well have been very skillful at getting the oil out of the hole but this skill level is not proportionate to the wealth and power they gained. Of course this rich want to sit on continued revenue streams so they go political and currupt democracy e.g. Bush Dynasty and its poodles.

The ultimate hypocracy though is that we all buy this oil from these people we hate so much. It seems easy to say stop buying oil, or at least don't buy it from unethical companies but everyone needs to do that otherwise the only ethic that will exist is price, the lowest price wins and that will be the company that cuts all the corners, the least ethical.

Water is next, and we really do need that so cannot afford for it to become scarce and controlled by tyrants. We have to tackle these people sooner rather than later, personally I'd love to see Bush and his cronies cleaning the streets outside my house instead of living in the lap of luxury. They can't get rich without our business, cut their bottom line and heads will role and the free market will shape to create the companies we need.