<maxdenton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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Mar 29, 4:19 pm, "Lets Roll" <letsr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Capitalism arose from industrialism without any particular framework or
> values. It was sometimes given lofty virtues by observers, much as
> conservatives do to this day, but social and environmental values were
> never
> intrinsic. Capitalism simply emerged.
> No one said, wouldn't it be cool to have a juggernaut economy of
> unprecedented productive capacity that destroys the capacity of every
> living
> system on Earth, where over 90 percent of the world's wealth would be
> concentrated in the hands of 2 percent of the people, and the other 98
> percent wouldn't mind because they were being anesthesized by shopping
or
> the eventual prospect of having more material goods.
> My comment that capitalism might be a good idea is a rhetorical jab at
the
> extreme internal contradictions of the present system. It is, in Hazel
> Henderson's words, a system where the divine rights of kings have been
> replaced by the divine rights of capital (money)".
Capitalism is a system that has replaced a republic and a democracy. Face
it in our system if the biggest companies can keep aquiring and
consoidating
the smaller ones, the only people who have power are the big companies, If
the only people who get elected are millionaires , no one is going to
listen
to anyone else without money. .With that power comes almost certain
manipulation and deception. Ideas are motivated out of greed and not
concern
of doing the right thing or having people caring about good role models.
>
> "I am certain of only one thing; that business as we know it is
destroying
> the Earth including all cultures and living systems, and never before
has
> there been a system so ubiquitous, so destructive, and so well managed.
It
> is our creation."
>
> "Our goal has been money - period. We got it. ...
>
> So the good news is that when Americans set a goal, they usually achieve
> it.
> The problem is that we set such petty goals."
>
> I've come to realize that those who look to the soulless legal
instrument
> of
> the cor****ation as a source of leader****p toward restoring the life of
> planet and community look in the wrong place. The cor****ation is a
> creature
> of money, not life, and as such it will always put money's interests
ahead
> of life's interests.
>
> http://www.futurenet.org/article.asp?ID=752
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