Succinctly stated, scarcity means that there is barely enough or not enough. The "scarcity principle" is an economic principle in which the limited supply of goods is coupled with a high demand for them that exceeds or nearly exceeds the available supply.
     "Consciousness of scarcity is a state of mind that compels a person to obsessively yearn and crave for wealth. It has little to do with not having wealth. Although some people with barely enough or not enough may have a consciousness of scarcity, it is often the people who have wealth, even more than enough, who are possessed with a consciousness of scarcity. For them enough is not enough. They speak of "the sky is the limit," a height they will never  attain. However, They can change their attitudes, but such is not likely. They may continue for a lifetime on a treadmill propelled by the greed instinct and since they cannot have u-hauls behind their hearses taking their corpses to the graveyards, which for them may not be a final resting place, giving their earthly lifestyles, they usually leave their wealth with people they didn't like and were too busy to love or to know how to love, except for their love of money.
     The news has just arrived, now there are 7 billion people on Planet Earth. This is up from 1 billion in the early nineteenth century, 2 billion a hundred years later and 3 billion thirty-three years later. While the population has been exponentially and phenomenally increasing the rich, constituting a small percentage of the population, has increased their wealth even in the face of the acceleration of entropy. Entropy, is defined as the steady degradation or disorganization of a system or society. This is evident for all to see throughout the world and what is perhaps the most significant factor accounting for this, especiallly in America (and Greece), is the consciousness of scarcity which is the greed-driven philosophy of the controllers of corporations, hence of the American political  system and beyond..
      Occupy Wall Street, (the 1 percent) by non-political represenatives of the 99 percent movement is a response to this wealth syndrome.
The Wall Street people, like other Americans, realize that the system is speedily disingtegating. During the last twenty years the wealthy has had a 275 percent increase in their wealth while the vast majority of the people have had an increase of 40 percent, except for the boottom ten percent that had an increase of only 18 percent.
    Politicians are powerless to decide in the interest of the ninety-nine percent, that is if they want to continue to be politicians, as most of them do, and some who want to become lobbyists, approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, are in control of the majority of the members of Congress. The corporations have power to elect and un-elect members of Congress.
      Ultimately, it is "we the people," if we only became aware of our power, not the politicians  or controllers of the corporations who are responsible for permitting the mentally possesed and gravely disturbed obsessed with a consciousness of scarcity to control society. Mentally possessed people in corporations must be dealt with in the same way as other mentally possesesd people, who, of course, are less of a threat to society.
     Hopefully, the Occupy Wall Street in America is the beginning of a movement that will take back the power from the wealthy and give it back to the people. In part, this can be accomplished by voters refusing to elect corporation bought politicians. The amount of money spent on political elections which never end and what President Dwight Eisenhower called the Military Industrial Complex, is criminal, because it deprives people, often the most vulnerable, from receiving the help that money could provide, although it is legal in this corrupt system. And it is immoral, as well. What was meant for grace - elections - is a disgrace. The consciousness of scarcity controllers are internationalists. They speak the same language whether they are from New York, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo or London. Beware! Americans. How soon is too late?

Copyright 2011 by Uriah J. Fields.