Why are We So Obsessed with Money???

Please don't misunderstand: My family, while not rich, is upper-middle-class, and I make no apologies for that, as my mom and dad worked their ASSES off to earn that money!

But it seems to me that American capitalism is now cancerous, with anything and everything being for sale. Screw the environment, screw the poor, screw minorities, screw the honest practice of business and finance, so long as you rake up those dollars!

Look, I know I'm a spoiled brat: I've never been in the position of having to earn my next meal. But look at Wall Street, look at K Street, look at the oil companies, look at Monsanto! Hasn't it gone too far?????

Vladimir Lenin once said, "When the time comes to hang capitalism, we'll find a capitalist to SELL us the rope!"

Was he right? I hope not, but fear so.

Hey, wanna buy some rope?

Or is it that no noose is good noose?

;-)

Not so much in Church or Temple, but it's still there.

Cancer, by definition, is unregulated growth. We know beyond any doubt that this is lethal.

And yet, we've managed to let a certain small percentage of people convince us that "greed is good."

Well, it's good for the cancer as long as the host survives, but at some point, the host dies and so does the cancer.

It just hasn't gotten to that point yet with capitalism.

Hopefully, someone puts the stops back in before that happens!

Alas ...

And it's still all about survival. Anyone who doesn't remember that, doesn't survive.

“The moral and intellectual failure of Marxism has left us with no alternative to heroic materialism, and that isn’t enough.” This was the very last sentence in his book _Civilization: A Personal View_, probably the best one-book introduction to art history ever put together.

I think he's really on to something with that thought.
J.

That clinking, clanking sound! Moneymoneymoneymoney!

I personally think paper money was one of the worst inventions, until they came out with credit cards.