This article was sent in respect of Saudi Arabia hosting the G20. Transparency International are not attending this year given human rights violations.
I always recall Clinton announcing the decoupling of human rights from trade. I believe this was a visible moment where they declared that making money was more important than treating people with dignity and respect. This provided a green light that the US won’t do anything if human rights are violated. However, if their rights are violated there will be a great marketing campaign around that. I do smile and shudder at the same time. Yet what you do to another returns to the self. It is only those disconnected who cannot see how intimately they are connected to others and the natural law of cause and effect. As they harm others life mirrors back, one way or another.
Greed and the need for power are mental health issues that in truth reflect not enough and powerlessness parading as power. I thought about wealthy boys in families where their parents are not there. Where they are raised by hired help ie. nanny’s. Similar to the Taliban they never know the true love of intimate family where their needs are met. I sense this is at the heart of the problem. The absence of father’s love, so boys go out into the world trying to make their parents proud, to impress others. Perhaps this is the birth of ambition.
Money is not freedom and suppression is not control, it is merely fear using tools to feel certainty and maintain abundance which is perceived as success and ‘good enough’. Yet always they were good enough, they just learned to believe what the world mirrored back rather than looking into the mirror and accepting themselves as they are.
So Transparency International’s article is about not endorsing corruption and human rights abuses. That is a wise move, a vote for healthy communities based on equality. When equality is lived corruption disappears.
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