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Originally Posted by Christo888
Yes, the me me me me is quite pronounced. I figured it was the sheer dominant mindset of gathering as much money from the system as possible and the competition of learning as much knowledge as possible as to how to go about acquiring as much money as possible has certainly tainted the mix. The more money one gains the more money one wants, or the less money one has the more money one needs. This has become a deep seated motivation within the very makeup of humanity, my observation anyway. Many years of doing presentations to potential investors to raise capital for a business startup has revealed the polarity trap, for the subject of money. The gap becomes larger in the classes as those who gain their wealth are less likely to remember that providing the wealth to another to get up and running is the very thing that pays it forward to increase the momentum of a good economy, instead I've noticed a closing off, an isolation of protecting what wealth they have accumulated so that no one can take it from them or they are afraid of losing it. We have all been taught to gather outside of ourselves using a system that is controlled and benefits for the most part those whom created it.
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I don't think we can discount the importance of the directives the system sends to us, all of which focus on the accumulation of individual wealth. Why does the system do that? Imagine if neighbors got together and bought one good lawnmower that would last a lifetime. Imagine what would happen if people suddenly decided they didn't really need any new clothes and mended what they had, or developed an exchange system so that clothes could be rotated and everyone always had something that was new to them? I'm not sure that selfishness is inherent in the personal psyche, but it is important to a system that relies on profits. Look at what people instinctively do in an emergency, often risking their own lives to help another, bypassing that reptilian brain that constantly says "I need to survive!" And of course, people now are focused on survival because it is clear that NO one will help them if they don't.
I found this article on rense.com about Cuba and how they are handling a food crisis which resulted from a spate of hurricanes on the island. People are willing to live with limited rations because they know they don't have to hoard...that the government will do what it takes to see that they are fed.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1
The lines are long and some foods are scarce, but because the government has maintained and even increased rations in some areas, Cubans who initially worried about getting enough to eat now seem confident they won't go hungry despite the destruction of 30 percent of the island's crops by hurricanes Gustav and Ike last month.
"Of the little there is, there is some for everyone," 65-year-old Mercedes Grimau said as queued up behind more than 50 people to buy lettuce, limited to two pounds per person