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Something jelled this evening. Out of all of the politics, all of the accusations flying here and there, I took a look and focused on one cliché. It led me to an accusation. I wrote the following and somehow it seems to be important. By no means perfect but it's a draft. Wanna send it onward? I'm very tired of this cliché that it's the corporations and their money and their power, their politics, etc. who are to blame for the tragedy that the planet is experiencing. In many ways, I can't blame the corporations for what they do. I am the president of an emerging company and I see it from the inside out. For a company to succeed, it needs the full support of its stockholders; the people. If company stock grows, people invest and keep the corporation alive and thriving. As the president of any corporation, needing to keep myself alive, needing to give the stockholders their share, I must be political. The corporation is a living thing and it must survive if we are to get our computers and their programs, a roof over our head, food on the table, families living and working together.
I'm going to cut this short because I'm beginning to realize that I could write a book on this topic. In the end, it is not the corporations, it is not the people who support those corporations, it is not even the politics of the time but instead the core issue lies at the heart of Capitalism itself. Capitalism DEMANDS that their be growth at all cost. It demands that we suck oil from the Earth. It demands that we build SUVs and suck even more oil from beneath our feet. It demands that we strip the forest clean with clear-cut. The ethics of Capitalism demands that we ravage the Earth and its people forever.
Peace,
Bill
