Tag: Greed

  • Faith, Fire, and the Table We Build

    Our assembly here transcends mere consensus; it is an urgent summons to awakening. We speak of a table, not hewn from material wealth or embellished by status, but forged in the crucible of collective memory. Its surface is etched with the silent pleas of the forgotten, the poignant elegies of the disenfranchised, and the unyielding […]

  • Sacred Economics: Shylock as Anti-Christ

    Sacred Economics: Shylock as Anti-Christ

    Money vs the gift Sacred Economics 100 Deconstructing the Story of Self/ the World Life without prisons Marx’s ‘death knell’ of capitalism, revolution, was the first answer to capitalism’s ills, after which the state would wither away, and we would live in a utopian bliss. The 20th century put paid to that vision, as revolution, […]

  • 2024: People Starve As The Rich Get Richer

    Earning enough to pay the rent or mortgage, cover utility bills and travel costs, buy food and have the occasional coffee is difficult, impossible for many. But it’s not hard for everyone, is it? There are a small number of people living among us who don’t have to worry about the bills, are not troubled […]

  • The Irrational “Greed” of Geriatric Plutocrats

    The Irrational “Greed” of Geriatric Plutocrats

    In his book Totem and Taboo, Sigmund Freud indulged in a speculative scenario for the origins of society.  Everyone, young and old alike, once lived together in a “primal horde”– ruled by an aging, domineering father-figure, who selfishly monopolized the women for his own satisfaction.  But one day (so to speak), the deprived “sons” defiantly […]

  • Always Wanting More

    Always Wanting More

    “Always wanting more” is an operational definition of “hedonism.” This brief article is my “mea culpa.” Inexplicably, I overlooked hedonism per se as a trait in my “psychoscope” of the evil superpower elite in America’s corpocracy.1 In my defense, I did briefly allude to “greed” as an outgrowth of ambition. Why “Always Wanting More?” The […]

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