120801 22:11 election
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
- Abraham Lincoln
One might feel safe in the assumption that I am political. But I am so only in the Quaker sense: "Speak Truth to Power" I find myself increasingly concerned with indications obvious to me the psychological manipulation of the electorate.
I am a registered voter and, as indicated, when I get around to it, I will become once more an Independent. Since I feel it will make those who seek power work harder to manipulate me into giving into their addictions.
Without equivocation greed is the most obscene and grotesque aspect of humanity. In a profound sense it is exercised as economic terrorism by the few against the many.
And as I write this I have in mind not simply Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) “Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. .” indicative of addiction; the operative word is "satisfied" or "never enough." When earnestly asked of those who purport to serve us how much power they want -- inevitably the answer is "MORE!"
When required to define their posture the reply is "more jobs for Americans" yet it is these very people who have moved our industrial genius to other nations in order to glean more profit ignoring the problem of what money is for: a medium of exchange for goods and services in order to drive the economy forward.
My sense is quite grim since I well know that hospice will be, in the very near future, a Growth Industry dealing with the already epidemic levels of dementia & Alzheimer's essentially induced by chemical substances inimical to human consumption increasing profits across the board.
Both Democrats and Republicans want to control the news media while saying on one hand that deregulation is indicated to increase jobs and on the other some other bull roar about censorship of the Internet.
I had not intended to attempt a definitive essay on elections or the economy. This is a selection of afterthoughts from a conversation with a fellow volunteer at hospice and his concerns about 'them' meaning the obvious destruction of freedom and life livable . . . a person unwilling to live and die for something will stand anything to avoid the issues plaguing our nation and the world.
Collectively we are near checkmate upon a chess board covered with would be Kings. This is no game people, you, me, all of us, are dying because of avarice a Cardinal Sin.
Avarice n extreme greed for riches, immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity
syn avariciousness, greed, rapacity, covetousness
related deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins" greed - excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
Quotations
"The love of money is the root of all evil" Bible: I Timothy
"avarice, the spur of industry" [David Hume Essays: Moral and Political]
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