Tuesday, July 13, 2010

'Just Business': Capitalism is an Anti-Social Disease

by Dave Lindorff from This Can't Be Happening. Great read. So many insightful observations about the nature of capitalism. Here is just one:
For a while, mankind, and the earth, could tolerate this sociopathic ideology, but we’ve clearly reached the point where it has to be recognized as a fatal disease. Capitalism and the greed it engenders and elevates to a virtue now threatens to finish us all off.
This touches on the purpose of my blog--that capitalism cannot co-exist with planetary limits and thus is doomed. We will go down with it if we do nothing. It's no longer a matter of social justice, it's now a matter of survivability.