It’s not new anymore, these days: But it still is worth another look and thought: How money making as a cult has apparently taken over our lives. I am old enough to remember life with the Soviet Union still in place. Looking at it from today’s vantage point I feel more and more: since money making as a system has no rival, no ‘enemy’, no opponent anymore, it’s like medieval times – two hard-liners in money making and serving their own personality (character would be the wrong term) at the top (?) in order to make their followers and themselves even more – money. In Russia and the US.
‘Raw capitalism’, unleashed as it were, again. Yes, of course, some people will argue the same way: Just let it be. It will take care of itself, if you only let it.
That’s Adam Smith’s theory, who stated that enterprises should be left to their own devices and the ‘market would take care of itself’. The USA’s national myth. That’s what myths are: A basic fairy tale.
Well, more than 200 years into the picture – and we are still waiting for it – to take care…
Have some ‘guys’, the tough stuff, at the top. The more they misbehave, an actual felon as a US president, the more they make some people believe that ‘tough guys’ still exist, the more they feel reassured.
Because there’s that other view… always lurking around the corner; they just might not be all that tough inside; they just might feel doubtful and insecure deep down about the ‘cowboy’ and ‘hunter’ and ‘soldier’, not to say ‘hero’ image they long for most of their lives.
Some will never get it, not in this life: Male precedence has a history.
And being a man does not mean, be tough, unyielding and unflinching in the face of adversity. If we could finally get that new male image into place (again), we might even stop wars altogether.
One day, women, children, elderly people and even men (who are out of the picture theses days because they are so busy saving the others in wars they started in the first place) might be living in peace.
Greetz to all those fine guys out there, who know that being a male human is more than just being tough!
The FIFA World Cup this year, starting today is one more instance of that embarrassing excuse for a man called the present president of the United States and his priorities – not to mention that actual name once in a while. Prices for anything related rocketed sky-high. Just so many people even refused to enter the US, for no justifiable or indeed any sort of ‘reason’, as in: rational thinking.
Related to all that money-making and the question of ‘news’ are social media, many of the largest consumed around the world in one or two ‘pockets’.
They don’t do it for nothing: They sell our data.
Interestingly, in front of that court in the hearing about his company’s policies in regard to content control or data privacy, when asked, Mark Zuckerberg himself refused to state then and there the name of the hotel he had slept in the previous night. Or the phone number of the last person he had called before entering court.
That’s what it is about: The right to privacy.
Privacy? Decency? Yes, but only for oneself…?