WE and our individual behaviour are
the product of our social/economic
environment. Those of us who are conscious
of this fact should make all the effort to
change the social/economic structure to serve
human needs and not chaotic haphazard capitalist
market/profit orders.
Eva
>
> I find it rather sad that we see the world as a series of stereotypes which
> we present to ourselves again and again to reinforce or views of what we
> believe to be reality. Like all of us, those whom we label as capitalists
> are human beings caught in a flawed system. Indeed, like all of us, they
> are greedy and want more for less. But, like all of us, they can also have
> a social conscience and be altruistic. In at least some cases, such as that
> of Robert Owen, they led social reform and played a very important role in
> minimizing the worst effects of industrialism.
>
> I also find it a little sad that we continue to see the world as "us" and
> "them". It is not we ourselves who are eating up the world and becoming
> bloated, but corporations. During the past couple of years, perhaps longer,
> I've seen more and more gas guzzling sports vans and pick-up trucks on the
> road, most often with only one person inside. "Aha!", I must now say to
> myself when I see the next one go by, "that is not an ostentatious person
> driving that vehicle, it's a greedy corporation!" Or, if I cannot persuade
> myself that it is a corporation, I may perhaps at least be able to convince
> myself that the driver didn't choose the vehicle of his own volition, but
> was somehow inflamed with greed and ostentation by a corporate advertising
> campaign.
>
> It is a long time since I last quoted by favourite historic personage - a
> possum named Pogo - who uttered one of the greatest truths of all time, "We
> have seen the enemy and he is us." What I find saddest of all is that we
> have never taken those words seriously.
>
> Ed Weick
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