Anti Capitalism

Sadly for us, we aren't in Rome. So, why are we still treating Popes, common men, as if they were gods on Earth, as the Romans treated the Caesars almost two thousand years ago? I really wish I had some enlightening answer for that, but I don't. I'm just simply stupefied by it all. Of the numerous things I find wrong with the Catholic faith, this has to be the front- runner, the big Chalupa of all the religious heresies that has afflicted our world. Yet still, somehow, people transcend the... Read Full Story

By default the earth is green and blue and I would guess, although I have no scientific proof, that these are the colours that make us happiest. After all, we tend to associate the blueness of skies and of seas and the greenness of grass with a Paradisial idyll. As I observed in a previous entry, Capitalism is diametrically opposed to nature. I believe that the war - if you will - between the opposing forces of nature and of capitalism can be symbolised by the consumption of green by grey... Read Full Story

Newer: Venezuela: Poverty has been reduced 40 percent in ten years » Older: « The New York Times on NAFTA and CAFTA: No Alternative Home: Most Recent The Christian Commons Project™ View blog reactions  No-Graphics Print Version Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008 @ 3:56:47 AM (PST) By Tom Usher Bush hoped to be proud father of the rightwing economic revolution’s grand project. Instead, he is its undertaker. Remember the “ownership society”, fixture... Read Full Story

Money, it is widely said, is the root of all evil. Anyone who cares or dares to look beyond the quotidian (and life-span) utilities of money can reach no other conclusion that money is responsible for much of what is wrong with the world today: selfishness, narcissism, the fragmentation of both community and family, the devaluation of culture, bland (and brand) homogeneity of the majority of countries world-wide, pollution, the killing of flora and fauna, subservience, making humans function... Read Full Story

In a previous post I speculated that capitalism is grey. From empirical observations, I have predicted that the increase in capitalism will increase the canvas of grey around the planet. Now I would like to propose that capitalism breeds a misunderstanding of death: It is said that when you expire you can't take wealth with you. The main objective of capitalism is to earn money, this cannot be disputed. Therefore, the capitalist who hoards his monetary wealth must be ill-at-ease... Read Full Story