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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is an interesting thing to watch, people selling their souls to the Devil.
It's been one of those legendary phenomena for centuries and now we get to watch it in real time. I guess a lot of folks don't quite understand what a Faustian bargain is, and why it always turns out to be a bad deal.
"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Trump?"
Kath2
(3,089 posts)Why for this nazi pig?
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)Many times through history with many atrocities. I fear we're on a freaking hamster wheel.
BigmanPigman
(51,640 posts)I thought they were pottery piggy banks for our money and Putin's rubles.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,900 posts)ooky
(8,930 posts)They are the devil.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)We're seeing that play out every day on an international scale and in real-time.
Excessive riches and power corrupt the best of men and they always have plenty of excuses and justifications.
Increasing global economic inequality, existing plutocracy hungry for more power, and a genetic human leaning toward self-centeredness and short-sightedness is taking us on a course of self-destruction.
It's a damn shame the planet we live on does not have the ultimate power of the veto......
HAB911
(8,922 posts)and souls will be collected