Here's what I was talking about

I was given an academic journal written by scholars who happen to be Muslim. The articles were not unlike what one would find in most academic journals and one article in particular caught my attention. The point was not original yet one that needs to be given more attention by a much wider audience. Twenty percent of the people on this earth consume eighty percent of the world's resources. That divide between the wealthy (who consist of the very rich, slightly less rich, and the middle classes of all developed nations and many developing nations)is in itself an infliction of violence doled out by world's most advantaged against the world's least. The religion of consumption for its own sake, in my view, has much to do with this. I do not exclude myself from this damning point. Those of us who talk about the injustice of this world towards the poor do little more, often nothing more, than talk. We are bound by feelings of helplessness and addicted to comforts we consider ourselves entitled to. We rationalize are fortune and use most of our power to protect ourselves from knowledge of how most people live (indeed from those people). We never talk about this violence, we never strategize about how to diminish it. The violence we focus on instead is that perpetrated by the poor against the wealthy. Living amongst the impovershed here, moving through them on the way toward a school which tries to give an education to those who live behind gates and are given all they have been persuaded to desire. This post is nothing more than strident talk, it won't change a thing, and I know that. The article made the excellent point that the "liberals of the West" feel they can mitigate their own guilt in this matter through talk alone. What to do?