Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Greed Kills
Hope, community, life itself; greed kills them all. Riots, arson and looting are symptoms of systematic greed; so are suicides, murders and genocide. As the ranks of unemployed, homeless, and the otherwise excluded grow, self-destructive scenarios will become the norm.
In his 1994 book Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia, Hans Magnus Enzensburger examined the consequences of societies built on systems that treated people as if they didn't matter. Introduce weapons and scapegoating, and pandemonium will ensue.
Gangs and police interaction are fairly predictable street drama; what we can expect as societies unravel due to the gangs on Wall Street, however, is anybody's guess. Reading Enzensburger, it isn't likely to be anything good.
In his 1994 book Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia, Hans Magnus Enzensburger examined the consequences of societies built on systems that treated people as if they didn't matter. Introduce weapons and scapegoating, and pandemonium will ensue.
Gangs and police interaction are fairly predictable street drama; what we can expect as societies unravel due to the gangs on Wall Street, however, is anybody's guess. Reading Enzensburger, it isn't likely to be anything good.
