Reply #123: Greed is a natural aspect of animal behavior. The absence [View All]

[ladjf]

of boundaries is not. Throughout Nature, the balance is maintained between the natural tendencies for individuals to obtain everything they want and those counter forces (boundaries) that keep that from happening.

If that is true, that what is the explanation of why the human race has been able to move into a culture of greed that has no boundaries?

Not to go into an inappropriate amount of detail, but the problem began during the agricultural revolution, that time with humans move away for being hunters and gathers and society became agrarian. For the first time, wealth could be accumulated allowing certain fortunate and/or resourceful individuals to acquire enough wealth so as to be able to enslave others in the work of acquiring even more wealth. At that point wealth was measure in terms of land and accumulated agricultural products.

Now wealth is represented by digital presentation within the memories of countless computer storage arrays, with the flexibility to move immense sums of money from anywhere to anywhere else with only a digitally recorded trail of the events. People are getting rich and poor, in an instant as stock prices fluctuate. But, those that are the principle owners of giant business establishments are able to ensconce themselves into secure position are attract money like magic. The money pours in and as it does, they take that advantage to hire others to be their slaves. Geography, distance are no obstacle. Only the bottom line counts. Need favorable legislation, buy a government. Need cheap labor, get it overseas where people are living in destitution. Somebody threatens the scam, assassinate them, call it suicide or an accident. No problem. They have resources that specialize in everything they need including "wet work".

Back to Nature. There are certain processes that Nature follows, sometimes erroneously referred to as laws. One of them is that Nature abhors imbalance. The laws of physic constantly dictate that all situations of imbalance will be in a state of fluctuation with the variation moving toward greater stability or as is called in some sciences, homeostasis. This process has never been know make itself known and it will eventually do so in the case of human greed, a condition of extreme instability, a situation that is grossly out of balance and therefore a prime target for natural adjustment.

But our time is largely measure in terms of our own life expectancy. We aren't totally comforted to think that perhaps the current Thugs in Charge might not be ousted from natural cause for a hundred years or so. Therefore, we may need to apply some ingenuity so as to assist Nature (no such thing really. But, it seems that way) or to put it another way, do what we can to kick the bastards out and put them in the prisons they so justly deserve. By mindful of the fact that the aforementioned "bastards" are not merely Bush and his hence men but the worst of the business fascist as well. I'm referring to Murdoch, Lay and others of their ilk, particularly those in the media and weapons businesses.

Our chances for success are not high. But, our chances of success otherwise are nil. We are involved in a global scheme to enslave everyone who is not part of wealthy elite and to plunder any and all natural resources with no regard for the future of the Planet or the human race. The idiots are in charge. That is not good and will end badly for us all.