When we take a look at how we treat each other as people, it is safe to say that we do not seem to value human beings very much. In a system based on materialism and the pursuit of success, money and power have come to define a human beings value. Consequently, nothing has inherent worth - everything is just a means to obtaining a desired end and satisfying our seemingly obsessive need for recognition and power. In the pursuit of these goals, the environment is being destroyed with a fanatical vigor one expects of an adolescent consciousness whose shortsighted impulse for instant gratification leaves it dangerously indifferent to the consequences of its actions; at the same time, countless human lives are sacrificed in wars over resources while financial tyranny waged against the working class in the form of austerity is plunging millions of people into poverty across the globe. Nothing is off limits in corporate capitalisms suicidal quest for profits. But, when everything has a price, nothing has inherent value. In what other ways is the dominant culture toxic and destructive? deepgreenresistance.org/why-resist/cultural-crisis
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:02:02 +0000
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