Our nations hold more prisoners than any other nation. Most for minor drug offenses that people use to kill emotional, physical and chronic diseased pain. If not that, they would use alcohol, smoke, get conned by a church or cult. Hopefully, they would become free, independent, think free on their own and find in their own spirit, relief from everyday life.
Law Inc, Religion Inc, Big Pharma compete against the drug dealers and cartels, the alcoholic beverage companies, big tobacco in cooperation with each other one back scratching the other, for more laws create more profit for all through the black marketeering. Just like oil, a shortage of gives higher prices and abundance, less.
The military complex profiteers in war, conflict and wounded soldiers come back in pain to spread to the rest of the family members their pain and needing relief from it they do not get. So all the entities mentioned above are meshed together into an ever ending cycle of support for them through the market and the need for them.
If only the Drug War would end, bought in by Nixon and carried on through other Republicans down through history with religion whispering in their ear. Jimmy Carter once mentioned on a news program as I was listening that at the end of his presidency, 1 in 100 people were incarcerated now its 7 in 100 in their life times.
The only beneficiaries of this is corporations, the military complex, the medical monopolies, the billionaire elites, the corrupt organized criminals, law inc, private prisons and churches who feed on those in distress.
Through diplomacy of nations, coming together as one and allowing people to be independent in thought, free thought, free markets, free in what spirit they wish to indulge in without harming others can the world come together as one.
Imagine there is no heaven, It is not hard to do, nothing to kill or die for , no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may call them dreamers and I am only one, hope someday you join us and the world will live as one.----John Lennon