by Richard Kane   

Before the Arab Spring and US follow up, the world was marching toward ever more religious and racial strife,
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Of course during the depression US hatred of Hispanics (labeled Mexicans back then) was far greater than today, and until blacks and whites started uniting over Roosevelt, the racial hatred was far greater. In contrast just before the Arab Spring the only hope Obama ended up offering was that by being mad at him, people put off being mad at each other.

In India the poor are treated with total contempt and disgust, until last year the US was marching India's way as the rich kept getting richer and the poor poorer, the US in the direction of India. This, as the world rapidly raced for the bottom. We forget that during the first depression the word Okie was a despicable word almost a curse word, like with the poor in India. The country with the poorest working conditions winning the contracts for the global corporations.

But in one year something has changed. Until last year people getting along with each other and economic progress were considered one and the same. No one contemplating the possibility of economic conditions even temporarily continuing to get worse with people en-mass never the less getting along with each other better.

Hopefully not off the subject, it gave me hope that during the tsunami and earthquake in Japan, some coastal residents were in economic (even medical) desperation, soaking wet clothes without any easily retrievable food or contact with the outside world for over a week and cooperated, rather than seizing food from the kids or disabled and thinking of cannibalism.

Try to imagine last year, that this year, college graduates hopelessly in debt but with some cash would live side by side with the long term homeless and only one or two crimes here and there. Last year where a desperately in debt college student would move into the ghetto they'd be robbed blind.

We still have the same problems we did last year of the rich keep getting richer and every economic bailout spelling even more giving in to the rich. Obama's love bombing the rich only working with Bill Gates and a few of his friends. But Bill Gates confessions have something to do with the rise of the Occupy Wall Street and other Occupy movements.

How are we going to confiscate totally unnecessary wealth and at the same time stop capital fight to where it isn't confiscated or heavily taxed. Maybe we never will, but the future world I feared last year full of cannibalism, and starvation where food from far away would never make it to market without being stolen en route, a year later seems far away indeed. Let's celebrate the very few crimes instead of helpless being robbed blind like if the poor and in hopeless debt but not without cash had shared living quarters in the past.

If Philadelphia Mayor Nutter and other mayors around the country succeed at making the Occupy movements a daylight only protest, 9 am to 7 pm, where people scatter at night in separate directions, the world we faced last year would return.

Philadelphia blogger, Richard Kane