There are two topics which the political establishment wants its chosen politicians to stay away from, one for which they will mock a candidate and one for which they will come at you with full frontal attack. 1/7
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Those words are love, and capitalism.
While they are the most relevant topics to any serious analysis of the world today, our elite pseudo sophisticates in politics and media are at least subconsciously aware that if we really delved into them, the world would have to change. 2/7
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Let’s talk about them anyway.
Adam Smith, the primary architect of free market capitalism, said it could not exist outside an ethical context. 3/7
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Today’s strain of vulture capitalism - not a free market at all, but rather a matrix of corporate domination that lords over every sector of American society - has no such ethical context.
It is simply institutionalized corporate greed. 4/7
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That which has no love - no sense of ethical responsibility, no grounding in reverence for people or for planet - is beastly. That is why vulture capitalism is so dangerous.
It is an immoral construct that leads inevitably to immoral results. 5/7
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Darn right we need to talk about love. And darn right we need to talk about capitalism. For when the heart strays from love - personally or collectively - our lives go awry.
And when capitalism strays from an ethical core - systematically putting short term profits before the safety, health, and well-being of people, animals, and planet - the world goes awry. 6/7
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That is where we are today.
It is the challenge, and the conversation that matters most.
Institutionalized corporate greed is a killer.
Love is that which stands up and says “No.”
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