human greed.
is there really anything more powerful?
it drives people to do the most horrible crimes and tell the most horrible lies.
we want more money, stuff, love, food, space, entertainment, attention.
the simple living movement tells us to declare “enough” and we do but we are secretly just redirecting our greed elsewhere. are we not? we say no to fancy cars and fancy houses but then secretly our greed lusts for more answers and knowledge, more wisdom, more information and we secretly know that will give us more power when we need it.
so what? so what is our reckless greed is out of control? good question?
yes, particularly when you realize that for the most part our legacy of our greed lives on well past our demise, just like our contributions to the community in positive ways, and we help humanity on its way to extinction.
if we are an experiment on our this cute little planet, then greed is the constant in the equation to destruction. the countdown is on as long as any of the variables is above zero we slowly, but surely, destroy ourselves and the planet. while there may be other components in the equation if any of them is zero the countdown stops.
what would life look like if we weren’t greedy? I have no idea.