Why do I say “No hope for humanity”?
I say that because NOT one of the 222 people who read my poem “For the Love of Your Fellow Man” — see it below (which I put in a comment on a Gita Gopinath’s LinkedIn post about this year’s Nobel prize winners in economics — https://lnkd.in/p/gwbZYsFK) put a like on it.
Not that I was looking for a like or two on it and not because I think the quality of the poem was good but because I feel that not a single person in those 222 people found the idea and viewpoint in the poem interesting enough to put a like on it.
And that tells me that humanity is steeped deeply in materialism and it cannot envisage alternative ways of living, alternative ways of organizing the economy and society, alternative ways of being (nor did they seem to have a sense of humour). Sigh!
For the Love of Your Fellow Man
by D. Samarender Reddy
How much labour would be saved in this world
If man strove only for what is essential
But so complex our modern lives have become
We can scarcely distinguish
The essential from the inessential
And the economist, the high priest of capitalism,
Says the consumer confidence has to be high
And goods have to move off the well-stocked shelves
If we have to move out of the recession
And that is a good thing
Everyone on the Wall Street agrees
For how else would you avoid unemployment
Of both the bourgeois capital
And proletarian labour
So, go out and spend the dollar
Ask not on what
For as long as the wheels of capitalism are thus greased
Your unemployed neighbour might yet find a job
And did not Christ say
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
