Well, it only took like...what...ten posts basically repeating (more eloquently) my basic point before Hef finally conceded the point...
But in the midst, we got a nicely thought out and worded piece from Sam, which included centrally:
"...The fundamental basis of the current economic paradigm is growth.
The fundamental basis of all or nearly all religions is growth..."
This, I believe, is true.
But it's even more fundamental than that. The whole global culture (industrial, capitalist, consumerist...whatever combination you want to call it) is primarily geared to annihilation of life on the planet and destruction of the processes that have supported said life for millions to hundreds of millions of years.
There is pretty close to a one-to-one correspondence to who gets the most money and who is most centrally and powerfully involved in this destruction (with only a few exceptions that I am aware of).
High finance has always supported the fastest and biggest return for the buck, which nearly always has meant the fastest way to convert the natural integrity of the planet into local and/or global toxic waste. These are the folks that get some of the biggest pay on the planet.
Arms manufacturers are up there, too.
And so on down the line, with some getting good pay for just doing the very 'important' work of distracting us from the astonishing abyss we are throwing ourselves and the planet into so we don't stop consuming or start revolting....
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