this is a given.
We are in a collective mode where profit is the sole reason and incentive for human existence as per the dominant model that we have internalized and refuse to challenge and deprecate in a pervasive and meaningful way.
People grumble about religious dogma as a factor that can negatively impact the world views of individuals and groups and yet, there is a similar model functioning with the acceptance of the modern distortions of capitalism that seem to correspond to those who rely on ancient books and folklore as a way to find meaning and relationship in an increasingly technical and complicated existence.
Any models or ideas that speak to the increasing inequity, decay and injustice that ensues from this current paradigm are often portrayed in a negative way and are even declared anathema. Those of us who are not sharing in the vast wealth continue onward staring, like deer in the headlights while trying to make sense of our own disenfranchisement as economic and political cannon fodder. We don't really want to know how doomed we are, so hoping and coping are better than challenging everything we know and accept in terms of economic dogmas.
If you pause to look, really look at the state of things under capitalistic, corporate control you will find that your values may not be represented at all if you feel that human beings are more important than profit as the sum bonum of being. As the prevailing winds of profit bring us to the brink of ecological destruction, we see that impact mirrored in our way of life, overall.
The spectrum of profit increases while we share less and less in the benefits. As food, water, prisons, education, the commons, land, intellectual property, all become owned and controlled by a few who find themselves with greater wealth than any King or Kingdom and in the greatest time to be wealthy in history, more and more of us find ourselves transformed from participants and shareholders of the wealth we help produce and more like beggars and Serfs with cell phones, debt and often, no place left to go.
This trend will continue until the system breaks down or most of us are living in an even crueler Fiefdom where we are expected to work for room and board if we are lucky. The only thing I can suggest is to question this model and see where you stand and what you are willing to sacrifice or change, (in your internalized version of it) in order to forestall the inevitable outcome and bring us all back into the picture as valuable and meaningful. Our kids are looking at what we might think of as Hell on Earth and so, much rests in the balance. Are we able to make the adjustments? Maybe so.
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