I am a capitalist, and yet I offer you this thought
concerning wealth: wealth is a dangerous ambition, for wealth is a predator
that all but destroys all who embrace it as their life’s desire... understand
the true nature of wealth and you will understand the motives of those who have
most repressed and misused humanity across the eons. Wealth does not free anyone, not really, for
wealth is a concept based on the deepest of insecurities. To have surplus resources is to have
security, and in security the freedom to look beyond the superficial, but that
is not wealth. Wealth is a master hard
and cold and conniving, heartless and cruel, wealth is the comparison of one
person as of greater worth than another measured against the narrowest of
standards. Wealth thrives not on
creating the surplus resources that enable freedom but rather by rationing who
has access to any resources at all, a barter system where the most primal
elements of the common humanity are the expendable elements of commerce. Be wary of wealth and guard well your soul,
for nothing, not nation nor race, not religion nor culture nor gender will protect
anyone from the consequences of the attitudes and ambitions that wealth demands
of those it takes for its’ own.
camel thru a needle's eye, indeed...
ReplyDeletefrom wealth comes power, from power, corruption
as one climbs, one's morality descends
it does not have to be
but almost always is
i don't believe there's a heaven nor a hell
other than as we make right here
the minimum wage and inequality questions
should not be considered as 'political'
when they are 'moral'!
pip
pip, at their heart all questions are moral, and all are political.
Delete...but seriously, [if one thinks about it],
Deleteto make one's moral questions political is unquestionably immoral. IMO... ;)
*chuckle* A most interesting debate gentlemen... another two, three hundred rpm and I'd hook it to a dynamo and start harvesting electricity ;-)
DeleteI'm not sure our debate quite gets up to the steam-turbine level. But it would be nice if we could harvest some of the "hot air" flying around the country...
DeleteHave you ever noticed the dichotomy in the architecture of the political? How many capital buildings have a collection dome above the main chambers, and not one of them has a pipe off the top to route all that hot air somewhere useful?
Delete"There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough." (Proverbs 30:15-16) To those, Cyranos, both you and I add Wealth. I have heard that John D. Rockefeller, when asked how much money was enough, answered, "Just a little more."
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