Has greed shoved out honesty from our lives?
As a species, we have always been ‘greedy’ and ’selfish’ (among many other things – good and bad)…
The attribute of ‘greediness’ in itself is not the issue — the bigger issue is in the lack of information/knowledge/analysis with which we choose to make our decisions in life…
Looking at the framework on which we build our societies today, I have yet to see an initiative out there designed to ‘educate’ without bias or influence — there is a catch behind everything — look at how our channels of communication and information shamelessly exploit common human weaknesses — they don’t even spare innocent little kids…
There’s nothing wrong with this though (from a strictly logical standpoint) — what is ‘wrong’ is that we do not allow (or train) our minds to process this information and pick from it that which is applicable/profitable to us (apply the same principles of ‘greediness’ and ’selfishness’ for our own good) — we do not allow our faculties the opportunity to analyze before we act…and this is where our ‘greediness’ and ’selfishness’ become an issue…
Ultimately, we absolve ourselves of all responsibility and blame the ‘greedy’ corporations for their misdoings — we elected that corrupt leader not because of his ‘merit’ but because he out-trashed his rival in the pre-election campaign…our kids are obese and unhealthy not because of the fast food chains – but because we ‘chose’ to feed them ‘fast-food’ junk as we were too busy running the rat-race to even think about the consequences of our actions…our species is getting dumber by the day not because of the overpaid, greedy, and lazy teachers in the system but because we have chosen to ‘accept’ poor quality and low standards for ourselves and our kids…
And after we have run out of greedy corporations and selfish humans to blame for our stupidity, we will seriously start looking for life on Mars – the greedy aliens are the root cause of all our grief – because of them we can’t be honest, sincere, truthful, generous, and compassionate — especially when the moon is aligned with Saturn…
Greed (or any other ‘vice’ for that matter) has not shoved out honesty, integrity, ethics, and good ole common sense — we have chosen to accept a sub-standard (low-standard actually) existence for ourselves – ultimately not developing that honesty, integrity, ethical framework, and good ole common sense…
