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By Nneka Okumazie
Assuming capitalism is not the most important air, the most important language and the most important place, how easier would life have been?
If people were not directly or very directly under the rule of capitalism, in how many more ways could life be harder?
It is possible to not believe in creationism, but prelapsarian life of sorts seems to be what many continue to desire, away from the contractions of capitalism.
The COVID stay at home situation in many countries opened some to see differently the weight that capitalism routine placed on them.
It is possible that capitalism burden, after the fall from Eden, took a lasting form of destruction.
Even if this is not considered by some, there were many civilizations in the past whose fall had things to do with capitalism factors – though other direct events may have been deemed responsible.
Capitalism, for winners, carries away – but the win isn’t often permanent.
Capitalism is too restless, too unstable, too irrational and too unfair to have a society totally based on it.
It is sometimes like a problem that should not start, that if it did, it’s already over even if managed.
Or sometimes like a game where everyone loses, even though some people seem to be winners.
There are non-medical problems that are worse for life, but if capitalism is good, they’re ignored. Sometimes, it is said that life is hard, things are tough, or going through a lot, true, but may also be capitalism choke statements
There are still places in the world where many of their people try to have some level of integrity, trust, courage – defying capitalism bound. There are other places around the world where nothing is useful if capitalism does not win.
Already, around the world, there are millions of pages of knowledge works, but most knowledge goes useless because there is no benefit to immediate capitalism.
Some of the mistakes that have been shown to be harmful – continues to be made, by many, because to get the knowledge does not seem important or to follow through, if it doesn’t aid capitalism.
With the world totally sucked in by capitalism, it may take a few centuries to collectively slow down, though it may be unlikely it will be eradicated.
Even if some places choose to try something else in small forms at some locations, it may take collective, unforced compliance to work semi-reliably, because forces of capitalism would continue to lure all.
Some countries in the last century tried an incomplete escape from capitalism, with force for immediacy and lots of cruelty, it crashed because the original – though problematic – rode faster.
[Job 27:20, Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.]
