Many years ago they did a programme in the UK going through the day-to-day routine of an Edwardian kitchen and they had as their guide a lady who had been trained as a cook and worked for a family. At the end of the series they asked her what she would most want if she had her life over again and she said without hesitations that next time she would like to be upstairs, not downstairs – a euphemism in the UK for being rich and not a servant.
The idea that people are servants because they are trapped within the money society (they have to have money to buy things) and are therefore only servants because the wealthy have all the power, is not new. But the reasons for this acceptance by all human beings that this is an OK way to build nations is a strange mixture of ignorance and nature. We spend so much time trying to make our ‘place’ in the world we forget that this place is merely how we are perceived by other people. The fact that the world is so much bigger than people escapes us.
But not all the time. There are those moments when we can be introspective, mostly sadly when we are older, and we call it wisdom but it is actually a realisation that the money-go-round is a vast and huge edifice created to blind us to how magnificent life really is whilst providing a few people with inflated egos.