Itinerantly, the more that somebody hurts you in every way imaginable, the more it creates the impression that you somehow deserved it.   The same is true for any prophecy that occurs in one’s life.   For example, if one is homeless, the prophecy creates a conception that one somehow deserves to be homeless.   Suppose someone takes everything imaginable from you. It also creates the impression that you somehow deserved it.  In the end, they blame it on God and consider all that happened to you a prophecy.    This is similar to how people in desperate situations, marginalized by our extreme competitive economy, are sometimes considered prophets.   In reality, these people are marginalized by a top-down, controlling, and dominating industrial economy, and we should call them profits.   This is because profits were chosen over the person‘s life.   Therefore, the desire to create profit creates people who create prophecies, known as prophets.  

There’s a profoundly troubling psychological phenomenon where enduring relentless suffering or profound deprivation can subtly, yet devastatingly, instill the belief that one somehow brought it upon themselves. This insidious rationalization often manifests externally as well, cloaked in the language of “prophecy” or “fate,” suggesting a preordained destiny for hardship.

Consider the profound tragedy of homelessness: instead of prompting systemic introspection, society often retreats into a convenient narrative, subtly implying that such individuals are merely fulfilling a preordained destiny. Similarly, when someone is systematically stripped of everything they possess, there’s a dangerous tendency to attribute this loss to some inherent failing or an inescapable cosmic plan. Ultimately, many fall back on spiritual justifications, interpreting immense personal suffering as divine will or prophecy, thus absolving any human or systemic responsibility.

This tendency to ascribe suffering to mystical causes becomes particularly poignant when examining the structural realities of our contemporary economic landscape. Those who find themselves utterly marginalized by our hyper-competitive, top-down industrial economy are frequently, and incorrectly, viewed as ‘prophets’ – figures whose destitution somehow signals a higher truth or a deserved outcome. The stark reality is that they are not ‘prophets’ of divine decree, but rather the stark *profits* – the human cost – generated by a system that prioritizes material gain above all else.

Their very existence is a testament to the fact that choices were made, not by fate, but by economic design, where the relentless pursuit of profit inevitably created the conditions for their marginalization. We must cease to frame these human tragedies as ‘prophecy’ and recognize them for what they truly are: the predictable, painful outcomes of a system that sacrifices human dignity on the altar of perpetual growth.   

Richard Thomas Simmons