In Nugget# 37 I mentioned ”global” as becoming a common part of our vocabulary today. It is in reference to this our awareness of a global community, that it is unavoidable. Here I would like to expand this a little more and relate it to the ego and altruism.
The reason for past commercial success in capitalism can be summaries in one work – EXPLOITATION!! Society has always feasted on exploiting of others and is not unique to our times. For example we see price hikes on gas and food when a storm threatens. This is true even though there are plenty of supplies in the pipeline.
This system was based upon taking advantage of a resource without consideration to the impact or costs to the environment and others. Most tycoons of this system were and are ruthless and uncompromising people. Vast Empires were formed to meet the “needs” of this system since its inception for the last few hundred years. However, its foundation was laid thousands of years ago.
The ego looks to have power, wealth, and exclusive knowledge. We can see this in our current system and history teaches us that it has always been there.
Ask yourself: Look around at current events. Why does it appear things are going a little nutty?
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