The Rise of the Right-Eyed Man

Has anyone noticed the rise of the Right-Eyed Man in our midst these days? It beganI suspect very discreetly soon after the Cold War. The break-up of the former Soviet Union into a handful of country states, along with Communist China, experimenting free economy with limited democracy as a model of economic production just before the start of the 21st Century.

The 20th Century, our last century, among many impressionable, progressive advancements was marked by equally countless brutal and cruel events. It was also very much a 100-year-long struggle between the Right and Left that has now left the Left completely decimated, well almost. After a hundred years of experimentation, it's proven that the democratic political-economic model of production beats all hands down.

Just in case you think that the dust has settled over this matter andall's swell, the human race knows what to do next, that the two-eyed man on the street is going to be better off, on the contrary. Watch out for the rise of the Right-Eyed Man.
In pre-industrial times, the main mode of production was agrarian and revolved around a symbiotic relationship between serf and landowner. Not always happy but both needed oneanother for idyllic co-existence. An honest and happy serf, all things being equal, is guaranteed to almost generate a higher return.For the landowner, these are good enough reasons to see to the overall welfare of his serf.

The dawn of the Industrial Age expanded this symbiotic relationship.There began the choice of working largely in the fields or in the mills. Either way, seeing to the welfare of the proletariat and serf poses a fair exchange for the industrialists and landowners. Even when the tobacco and cotton fields of the new world gave rise to the lucrative slave trade and the movement of blacks across the Atlantic Ocean changed demographics, there was always the implicit understanding that their welfare at the lowest common denominator will be met. Symbiosis was still respected, to put it crudely.

Naturally, the dawn of 20th Century made it ripe for new ways of thinking including new political-economic thought. Monarchies gave way torepublicswith the left and right deeply divisive, and the movement of socialism versus capitalism was born.

Now, here we are at the juncture 100 years later, kicking off the 21st Century with the Digital Age. An age we all boldly embrace for the better, much like those who had earlier embraced the age of industrialization. This will be theage of automation, the age that spells the beginning of the end of the centuries old symbiotic relationship between worker and boss. Machines are now completing most tasks faster, more accurately and way cheaper than ever before. In the age of automation, there's no need to account to machines. They are not like human beings to say the least.

This is the age to be Boss and a Right-Eyed one. The Left is dead. Even the political-economic policies of the current great Democratic American President Obama attest to this truth.

Take the headlines today, 3rd October 2011. No different from the papers in the past monthssince the subprime crisis of 2008, except for autocrat Ghaddhafi's quickignominious death on the rubble streets of Libya. Many of the headlines are still screaming how bleak it is for the strongest nation in the world. America's economy is blighted.With high unemployment scourging the nation yet no one is offering credible solutions not even the most powerful man in the world. Instead, the Obama administration has decided to put the common man's tax payments to supporting big American businesses from failing. Condoning these big businesses to continue rewarding themselves on fat pay checks if not bonuses, many similar governments are also condoning theretrenchment of workersdespite big corporate profits. As if this is not bad enough at a time like this,these same governments have cut down subsidies to the poor. Obviously, Capitalism supports the rich. When the rich suffer losses stemming from their own greed, the poor pay up for them. On the micro scale, a fine case study to prove this point: one of the richest Americans and in the world, Warren Buffet is baffled by how he pays less in taxes for his multi-million income than his secretary who makes a hundred thousand dollars a year.

Regardless of whether it is a democratic or republican government, the poor will suffer and morein the coming future. After all, there is no need to maintain any symbiotic relationships with machines doing the job. Out of sight, out of mind, workers who no longer hold a job andyoung people of the lost generation born in the 1990s can sit out at Occupy Wall Street corners all over the world for all they care. The government troops will gleefully evacuate them when inconvenience mounts. The rise of the Right, remainingunchecked by the Left, will unleash unequivocal new humanitarian havoc on the silent disenfranchised majority in these brave new times.

Of course, the experts who got us into this mess in the first place will offer no solutions. They get bailouts regardless of how badly they do. Now that the age is with them, the governments of the world too, we should brace ourselves. Revolutions are in sight. The new Che Gueveras of the world will rise to the call of the day to counter these Right-Eyed men.And if it's my call, may I humbly offer the immediate solution of taking down the Right-Eyed Man straightaway. If we wait like Greenspan for rational correction, it's just not going to happen.

Intervention is needed. As history has proven, the Left, like it or not, has taught us it is in the equitablere-distribution of power and wealth that will dampen sizzling situations,the latter which of course willno soonerbegin all over again. The transitions the world have had are but for the poor and disenfranchised to get a breather. Reorganization is usually beyond them, proven by the current state of affairs.

Let's begin by empowering the man on the street with tweets. Tweeter to come together. Tweeter to support Occupy Wall Street and WikiLeaks. Tweeter to let your Congressman or woman know where your sentiments lie because the winds of change have arrived at our shores. Turning a blind eye will hurt both the manon the street, the abject poor and eventually, believe it or not, even the Right-Eyed Man.