Editorial TrueWind DETOX FROM GREED
With the help of a friend, a respectable scientist, I was trying to think of a period in the history of the planet when social justice or at least a decent system of governance was achieved. We indulged in discussions about social movements, rallying cries, uprisings, fights and all such bloody things. And yet, to no avail. Never has there been a day when the sun rose to light anything but the usual scale of public administrators, opposition parties, under- the-table dealings and people who choose to go against the grain. At the same time, at the lower end of the scale there are always the destitute, the weak, homeless and ailing. There are countless pages of studies, speeches, suggestions, solutions, improvements to political systems and much blood shed during fights given by the supporters of Plato’s ideals of isonomy and equality before the law. It is finally obvious that the only balance sheet we care and fight for is private and personal.
I didn’t wish to be unfair to the human kind and thus we went back to different social structures: classless, socialist, even primitive. Again, to no avail. Classless structures were much too unruly; in socialist structures the administrators live in palaces while youngsters suck gasoline at the sewer; in primitive structures little girls undergo genital mutilation and grownups slaughter each other during civil wars sacrificing minors in the name of some god. I strongly believe -to which Father Efraim’s Church agrees in deed -that the mightiest god has always been profit and, primarily, easy profit to the expense of others. Amen.
The hardest drug is Greed, the thoughtless acquisition of money in all possible forms – in earlier days in the form of land and animals, now in Eurodollars, bonds, etc. How am I to explain the frenzy of multimillionaires who choose to get involved in leak scandals and misappropriations? How much more money does the doll of that handsome lad, Sarkozy, need after sticking her little plastic nose in charity matters and accounts? How many submarines and strings and rings do the government executives need in order to live the desired lifestyle? The list has no end and nothing to do with the latitude or longitude; it has to do with the stuff we are made of. All of the moral political figures that emerged in government boards were finally booted out, exorcised.
How much more money does the doll of that hand-
some lad, Sarkozy, need after sticking her little plastic nose in charity matters and accounts?
Greed is an everyday robbery aiming at all directions. Many times it is our daemon. Tycoons spend their lives in the company of bodyguards and cajolers, live miserably in hideouts or spend countless hours with lawyers and public prosecutors. Victims and victimisers living in the same body. Greed is the plague of our planet, rotting it away day after day, polluting the environment to make some extra cash, covering up rivers and seas with concrete, breaking down the forests. My only wish for the New Year which has just arrived is to invent a method to detoxify men from their Greed.
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