#+TITLE: The World We’re Not Supposed to See
#+AUTHOR: arpunk 
#+DATE: <2025-09-08 Mon> 
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
#+filetags: :life:

We were promised progress.  We were told that with enough money,
meetings, and good intentions, the world would get better.  That if we
just tried harder, listened to the right people, and supported the
right causes, we would see change.

But the quiet, horrifying truth is this: the system isn’t broken.
It’s working exactly as designed.

It doesn't fail because it's weak; it fails because, for some, its
failure is profitable.  The world doesn’t need to be fixed.  It needs
to be managed.

Instead of wells, food and solutions, we get reports.  Endless
reports.  PowerPoint slides that sound like prayers.  Summits where
leaders nod solemnly while signing agreements that are never
implemented.  We are sold words like resilience, sustainability, and
stakeholder engagement—all beautiful, elegant, and empty.

Behind the polished language, someone is getting paid to keep the
crisis alive.  Because if the water were clean, the refugee camps
empty, and the hunger ended—who would have a job?  Who would need a
budget?  Who would need to justify their five-star hotel stays for
"high-level coordination" or the $10,000-a-day consultants hired to
state the obvious?

The system doesn’t want solutions.  It wants visibility.  It wants to
be seen trying, even if it’s not doing.

We’re not wrong to feel angry.  We’re not wrong to feel betrayed.  The
system isn't broken; it's designed to keep us placated with small,
televised victories while the real war is lost in the shadows.

It is fueled by the most profitable currency in the world today.  Not
oil, or gold, or data.

It's the spectacle of human suffering.  And we keep buying it.

We watch the videos.  We share them.  We cry.  And then we go back to
our lives, content that someone, somewhere, is doing something.  But
that's the trap.

The world isn’t broken; it’s being managed.