Vultures at the door
Greed kills.What else is there to say? This either upsets you or it doesn't. If it doesn't, you simply hate other people. You'd probably welcome a return to the days of slavery, so long as you weren't one. (Crush that feeble Rawlsian thought! Fans of rampant capitalism are benefiting from it, not suffering, so they have no notion that it can do bad. Hey, if it's good for me, what's the problem?)
You don't think about this when you're arguing for no minimum wage because "business would suffer". I say, fuck business. If it's not in the business of improving people's lives, I do not support it.
Meanwhile, we break our promises to the poor. This is not how we fix our world! We do not end terrorism by bombing the poor. We do not end economic migration by building walls to keep the poor out.
What upsets me far more than the ugly expression of greed is that the right's answers are so fucking stupid. We have allowed the stupid to take the reins, and what does that make us?
The problem with fighting Al Qaida on the grounds of ideology is that their ideology is reasoned (even if you do not agree that it is reasonable). Its critique of Islam and of the West is based on principles that are sound and in many ways decent. And we are such easy targets: hollow, stupid, greedy people, who can't think past the next dollar. A person who runs, invests in, does not legislate against, supports a vulture fund is an enemy of mankind, my enemy. Instead of fighting a war on terror, we need a war on greed.
Fat fucking chance! We'll drown first, in the rising seas our greed is buying.
posted by Dr Zen @ 10:22 am
2 Comments:
Amen. A great post Zen.
boots sed:
In some parts of the US, the pretty people find the homeless to be unsightly and set the police on them.
Put the poor in beggar's prisons I say, their filth can only be the result of laziness... or perhaps their inability to cave in to what is clearly wrong.
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