as i'm reading about mexico's drug warlords i hear on the news the mexican police have captured his son, only to later admit they got an innocent car dealer instead and may have to let him go. i guess the whole truth will be obscured for a while, who really knows what bed the authorities sleep in, until drugs become legalised and take a legitimate place amongst peoples choices there can be no real control over the fall out. el narco has a chapter called, 'faith' which describes how the spiritual or more accurate 'religious' beliefs have become entwined with el narco. it starts with the church, but spills out into it's sub branches, just like santeria is a catholic hybrid in the caribbean, a mix of folk lore and catholicism, el narco has it's own religions perversion, which has spilled out into poorer farming communities and the populations who are not part of el narco.
el narco donates millions to communities, it employes hundreds and the poor receive more direct assistance from them than they do the government, so herein lies the problem. el narco are the second biggest earners after the oil industry, in fact el narco saved mexico from the gfc.
the kingpins, the barons all have shrines built, often these cost thousands and come complete with religious icons and services, they even have a patron saint. jesus malverde, who supports the poor from exploitation, he even comes with his own history. bizarre that this industry 'el narco' is considered part of jesus malverde's domain, yet when pressed for an explanation el narco defines jesus malverde as akin to robin hood. the bottom line is if you're starving you don't care about where the bread that feeds you comes from. poor people don't have the luxury of choice the west does.
the government has an obligation to look after it's poor and marginalised, it's what allows capitalism to work effectively, it was never the capitalist agenda to hoard and make wealth at the sake of others less fortunate, it was always a system that created wealth to put back into the system, even energetically you can't top a flow and capitalism is based on flow. the mechanics politically in mexico is a dual industrial complex, one where people follow the democratic system the other where it's el narco, this is unsustainable based on the fact el narco kill indiscriminately and are at war with those that get in their way. the government is loosing the war on drugs because it started a war, it should just look at the issue holistically, where there is demand supply can be delivered, mexico can thrive based upon american consumption and no one need be killed.
imagine if a smart government ran australia, if i was pm i'd let farmers grow hemp, i'd saturate the world with it's products, i'd legalise the use of marijuana and limit the use of alcohol to a level of reasonableness, i'd stop fucking mining and start drilling down to 'hot rocks' energy and i'd promote immigration through infrastructure projects like solar panels for the red centre, i'd abolish multi culturalism and promote integration into a smart culture where art, personal liberty and secularism are valued, and a spiritual connection to the universe is a private but supported relationship. i'd stop all taxes and just have a transaction tax, i'd make sure people were educated in the laws of karma and mythology, everyone would have to read 1984 and animal farm and i'd seriously get the population as interested in self directed evolution as possible, in fact that's what skool would be.


so i'm thinking again, the laws of karma are so complex, how can a human mind comprehend them, we set out to do the right thing, maybe not, but what ever we do has an effect, even good intentions can result in bad consequences. 
'intention'
the road to hell is lined with good intentions so how do you think your way out, it's impossible. which is why i always think you just have to be as true to yourself as possible, work out your own code and go with that, although whatever it is it's probably way off the mark, which is one of the reasons i would like some answers.
philosophy has asked the question for so long now, we are getting close but just like 'prometheus' we run the risk of being eaten alive by birds of prey for eternity for our troubles, or maybe we are already.