"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
Our current Western civilization has become so corrupted that it is literally robbing us of a future: Some examples --
o we are being robbed of clean water and air because of corporate pollutionist policies
o kids are being robbed of decent educations because of a ruthless bottomline mindset that puts abstract money before the actual reality of knowledge and learning
o we are being robbed of the ability to raise crops naturally with proven, long-lived, viable, natural seeds because a few are operating a world food control scam
Those in control right now -- the Corporatists and Fascists -- have no sense of future beyond their GET RICH QUICK/GET POWER FAST schemes. THEY HAVE NO LONG TERM PLAN worthy of the Planet, THEY HAVE NO LONG TERM PLAN worthy of the vast imagination and energy and potential of humankind.
Those in control now are GREEDMONGERS; watch the ads they use to convince consumers to join their greedy get-it-all worldview -- and you'll start to see in those ads the reflection of those Corporate Greedmongers. In general, any decent character trait has been contorted to fit their GREED ETHIC.
And their GREED ETHIC is devoid of building any mutual future. They are self-centered and predatory, and they are incapable of building a mutual future. Their GREED ETHIC is based on TAKING. They scoff at the idea of giving or sharing anything, they belittle the need for supporting anything, they turn their backs on the necessity for nurturing anything.
They lack any ennobling code of ethics whatsoever. For them, it is ALL about gratifying their insatiable hunger for MORE, for hoarding more and more.
It seems necessary to get inspiration for acting in the present in a way that assures our future by again and again going back to pockets in time where some people took a stand (some people with some sort of Progressive goal) to aim to behave, and so behave in ways that created the "space" in which to truly assure a FUTURE in which things WORK and human experience may improve. These were pockets of time that became FUTURE-ORIENTED, like the American Revolution and its response to corporate tyranny against the colonists, and also FDR's cabinet's response to the peoples' plight brought on by the Wall Street banditry that caused The Crash of 1929 and The Depression. And key in those pockets of time are the tasks of breaking free from, clamping down on and controlling the Greediest amongst us. Rejecting the ethics of the Greedy means recognizing we can have a superior ethical standard that is FUTURE-ORIENTED, that goes far into the future, way far beyond the Greediests' mere desire to live their personal lives in immediate gratification and instant opulence.
There's a big difference between the majority's willingness to work hard and strive today so that things can be better in the future, and the Greedmongers ideal to manipulate/scam/steal as much as possible today in order to have the rich base from which to continue more manipulation/scamming/thievery tomorrow. The Corporate Greedy are not building a BIG MUTUAL FUTURE of mutual benefit; they are only creating a parasitic domination from which to sustain their greed.
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