Greed Is Bad
No matter what corporate America tells you
The human spirit in America is bereft. Our social morality and spiritual balance is in tatters. We have monetized everything in society. Every aspect of our lives has been economically evaluated.
Since before the Civil War, America has been at the forefront of breaking down humanity into tabulated quanta for pricing. Even babies were determined to be worth $45 per pound in 1910 (their future profit potential over a lifetime). Babies are worth more now than then, but the fact I’m talking about it means things are as bad as they ever were. Actually, except for the overt slavery, much worse.
“Greed is good.” “The more you have the happier you will be.” The propaganda of the wealthy has been getting exponentially louder and more brazen. They have repeated it so often even people with normal intelligence and better sense are believing it.
This corporate philosophy of life has been institutionalized. It is the unspoken basis of society now. It is the background music of our lives. We are not a civilization characterized by engineers, scientists, and philosophers anymore. We are a civilization characterized by arrogant, rapacious business people — CEOs. The term “CEOs” could just as easily be replaced by “pirates.” They may dress nice and be polite to your face but do not turn your…
