Money makes the world go round, the world go round, the world go round… but the world market has crashed down...now what?

All I can see, hear, and speak is… is… evil. Just kidding! I mean, words like down, drop, decline and plunge were thrown everywhere by the media these past few weeks. I’m not a trader or a banker, and I’m certainly not a fan of arithmetic, but when such words are snug together with big or high numbers in sentences that you read, listen and spoken of by them, pertaining to the world market or stock market, I feel that I have to panic. Analysts are saying that, what is happening right now in the world market is comparable to the Great Depression of the 1930s, or even worse. Or worse?!? But that is not the reason why I have this need to feel panicked.

Way, way back before that Great Depression, from what I’ve learned from primary school… is that goods and other useful commodities were being traded between countries for everybody to have a comfortable (and exciting) living. Within that period, when the people had realized the need of it, money was conceived. All of sudden, everything has been given a value, quantified and price tagged. To have, to own or to experience things of this world, one must have… money. Yes, and who wouldn’t want to have a piece of that? Not just a piece, but a big chunk of it at that.

Apparently, some countries, have managed to get heaps of it. As for the Philippines, even though the country or the land is rich with natural resources of its own, majority of the people are struggling to survive each and every day. Money seems to be culpable of what is happening at the moment, but I don’t think that is so, but people’s greed is. If we go back to the early years… no, not even the Flintstones era, I mean to the beginning, the genesis of earth and life itself, from the version that I believe in, is it not everything supposed to be free? Or that is just when before the evil has been awakened.

I, being here in the Philippines all my life, news such as this do not shock me anymore, same with most of the citizens here, as I see it. It seems that it is not a concern among us, or the masses, the masses being everyone living below the poverty line, which consists of 99% of us. And I don’t think that that is an exaggeration. Well, ok… 98%? And why would it concern us? How would the downturn of stock markets affect us? …Ok, technically, it does, and that is why my stomach churns every time I think of such matters.

As for the Filipinos below the poverty line, the ones really, really down the pit, all that they wish for as every day passes and turns, is to have something to put in their stomachs, even if it means preventing the acids in it from consuming the rest of their guts, or to put it bluntly… themselves. For those however, who are hanging with the tip of their fingers clinging with all force on the line trying not to plummet down the pit, they heed in wait for the deluge of perks that are being spat and thrown down from above that line, and toiling on everyday living to fill their own stomachs, no thought whatsoever of world market affairs.

And for those who are there up the line, they consist only of a handful of families, some, with really huge pot bellies. Those families own almost all the islands and provinces in the country, rolling all around on their beds of money, making the rest of us their footstool, just to make sure they stay above that line. I don’t think they care about such news as well, as long as they live luxuriously and are on top of the social ladder. The few ones that do care though, not just of themselves but for the entire nation to advance as one, unfortunately, are not residing in this country anymore, they are in hiding or in jail, they are being gunned down, missing or worse, buried six feet down under.

I’m not an expert on numbers, money in particular, but I have a pretty good grasp of how money makes the world go round. And I hope it turns the other way around, and this time countries in Asia shall be the ones progressing extremely, including the Philippines. We were doing well once, before all the relentless oppression and corruption in the country. Today, we are considered a developing country, or in other words, a Third World country. And with the term ‘Third World’ as defined in this modern time, and being a Filipino, knowing that my country is in the roster of Third World countries and having to live with it, is not something that I’m ecstatic to be proclaiming. Or should I? For I know for a fact that we were not the ones who have enslaved, tortured, killed, deceived, and colonized other nations for its own country’s gain, and to have a taste of a good life, and, or as they proudly say it, to live in a ‘free’ country. But I don’t think there is such a thing as ‘free’ anymore.

So what will happen now, now that the Richie Rich’s of the world are losing Moolah big time… Must I expect more oppression and more wars, for them to stay afloat? Somehow, I think that is inevitable. As I see and watch the world revolves, everything is taking place, as the famous book of all time has predicted, I feel terror approaching. Is money really the root of all evil?

Evil is swelling up like a pus-full of boil on a butt here on earth and is set to burst, the bulk of that evil is in the form of money, and everyone is succumbed and helpless to it. Must I panic? I think not, but instead, I should have a fervent faith in the Father who made us all, of this entire world and even beyond it, and relax…

…Instead of panicking… maybe I must just see no evil… hear no evil… and speak no evil…