Misanthropic Philanthropy

We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other’s happiness not by each other’s misery.
We do not want to hate and despise one another.
In this world, there is room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has reduced us to misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical.
Our cleverness hard and unkind.

We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery we need humanity.
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities life will be violent and all will be lost.
The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men.
Cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of soul.

Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world.
Millions of despairing men, women and little children.
Victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
For those who can hear me, I say do not despair.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed.
The bitterness of men who fear the way human progress.

The hate of men will pass and dictators die.
And the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die liberty will never perish.
Soldiers don’t give yourselves to brutes.
Men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, and what to think, and what to feel.
Who drill you, guide you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don’t give yourself to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.

You are not machines.
You are not cattle.
You are men.
You have the love of humanity in your hearts.
You don’t hate.
Only the unloved hate.
The unloved and the unnatural.

Soldiers don’t fight for slavery fight for liberty.
The 17th chapter of Saint Luke it is written the kingdom of god is within men.
Not one man.
Nor a group of men.
But all men.
In you.

You the people have the power to create machines.
The power to create happiness.
You, the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful.
To make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then in the name of democracy let us use this power.

Let us all unite and let us fight for a new world.
A decent world that will give men a chance to work .
That will give you the future and old age and security.
By the promise of these things brutes have risen to power.
But they lie.
They do not fulfill that promise.
They never will.