Parable of the Poor and the Rich
The fortunate poor are always a repository of handouts, all receipts from those who claim to care about them. In the helpless state of being poor and deprived, the poor are likely to be willing to take on any intervention - words, materials and deeds - that comes along as a fast and sweet relief. Without prejudices, all who work to support the poor in the world and throughout history are worthy of honour and adulation. However, one of the blunders made by the poor is: taking every word spoken or written by the rich as the most authoritative voice on any subject. Afterall, their ends justify their words and means. This tends to mental slavery. In what I call the Abusive Influence of Riches (AIR), the rich being fully aware of their power of influence, may teach and train the poor to keep thinking poor, speaking poor, acting like someone poor should do and being absolutely content being so. Not all knowledge disseminated by the rich may free the poor from the enslaving shackles of pove