2011 In This World You're Either Born Into Money or Suffering

I've just seen the 'Lions' episode of 'Working Man's Death' and I find that, having watched three of these episodes now, the point that I always find most fascinating is, despite the horrendous working conditions depicted, the workers always make statements justifying their position based on God's will. In the Lions episode, we are shown a slaughtering field in Nigeria where goats and cows are brought to be slaughtered, cut, and some cooked to be sold to more wealthy people for export. The meat is cut and dragged through the mud and then roasted over fires made from what looks like burning tires. It is far from what we would consider even remotely clean or sanitary in America. The conditions are dirty; the men wash their faces in bloody water and stack the cooked meat on broken horns on the muddy ground. I would never want to work in a situation like this, given a choice, and yet for many in this world - they have no choice.

Although we cannot hear the questions asked by the film crew, we hear the responses of the workers. They state that 'they are born into suffering' and 'if God, in his infinite mercy grants them success then so be it.' They believe that God has placed them into the position they are in and they accept it. One worker explained that although he may not be the best at his job (washing the roasted goat bodies), he was grateful for his skills and believed that his job made him special. Here you have a being who's sole purpose in life is to wash cooked goat heads in a muddy field filled with thick tire smoke, and he feels that he is special because at least he has a job.

On the other side of the world, we drive nice cars with air conditioning, watch television for hours, eat delicious full meals, and sit in our air conditioned homes cleaned by other 'less fortunate' people. And we believe our position makes us special as well. We believe it is God's will, when in fact we are where we are due to the system that we accept and in which we participate in every moment, whether we recognize this fact or not.  God is not some person in the sky - God is a system, which is really just us. And there really is no justice when we brainwash another person to accept their place - a place we would never dream of occupying - by teaching them that God has a plan and that if you are in a position that you do not like, then you must deserve it and you are lucky that you at least have God's mercy and maybe if you are lucky there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. At least that's what we all tell ourselves. There is really is no shame in this world.


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