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In response to the
following article in today's Guardian by
Martin Kettle:
"When democracy lost its grip on the City of London"
In the City of London
one can recognise better than anywhere else (if
you open your
eyes) that free-market capitalism is rooted in man's animal
nature, which it has developed and been honed to take
full (and thus such effective) advantage of -
unsurprisingly, in view of what Charles Darwin is supposed
to have taught us about human origins, but for some reason
we are reluctant to apply it to the social sciences of
history, politics, economics, sociology etc. It is time we
did.
As Earth's "Greatest
Ape" we are behaviourally programmed to seek power (of which
money is now by far the most important and versatile form)
and social status. In the City the human ape is free to
apply his "animal intelligence" to this end - and does so
very effectively.
It is this dominance by
our animal nature that makes our growth-dependent economy
and the grossly materialistic lifestyles (and lifestyle
aspirations) it engenders inherently unsustainable.
Never mind the
unfairness of it - it is this inherent non-sustainability
(which is causing us to plunder and spoil the planet for our
children and future generations) that should really concern
us.
The solution? To replace
our animal intelligence with more enlightened, human
intelligence and, among other things, accept (voluntarily,
proudly and gladly) for ourselves a maximum wage (i.e. a
limit to personal power and advantage).
More at
http://www.spaceship-earth.org
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