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While Socrates said ‘The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living’, I say the Unexamined Eurokleptomania is Making Life on Planet Earth Unliveable’

Aza Y. Alam
3 min readOct 9, 2022

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After 500 years of multiplying mayhem, what is the world’s fundamental need concerning the spread of blind Western greed?

It is leadership by and for, Color-ful People that will heal the world, so polluted, Photo by Fateme Alaie on Unsplash

It is Color-ful People who must lead

For we’re the ones who will heal, the world, so polluted;

From the Himalayas to the Andes

With rain forests uprooted,

The stolen wealth of hedge fund managers,

Hero-worshipped,

Starvation everywhere but Europe, embedded,

Animals displaced out of their habitats,

Pandemics galore, happening more and more

The tally of the sick, the dying and the dead,

Is wrought in the weeping eyes of we, the survivors

From the copper mines of Chile, to the sanctioned heart of Cuba

And the petroleum sucked from Arabia, to Peru

What’s being waged is war

But the one percent’s not keeping score

All life-loss is to them, just a little, collateral damage

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Aza Y. Alam
Aza Y. Alam

Written by Aza Y. Alam

Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.

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