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    How capitalism is killing us

    I post this in response to the many screeds on how capitalism and/or corporatism is destroying the world and killing us. I do so in reaction to that self-righteous moralizing assumes a position of superior good against some inferior evil, projected onto anyone who dares disagree, because, whether I agree completely with the article, and I don't, it at least has the right locus as problem, society, a society dependent on economic liberalism and liberal democracy, a society that insatiably wants ever more in its pursuit of unattainable happiness and thinks that the way to achieve that is by means of democratic equality that eliminates all social safety nets once found in organic communities of relationships for individualistic atomized dependence on the state in a war of all against all.


    Oh, yea, the article!

    How capitalism is killing us

    ...A December 2017 statement from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights notes that, while the US manages to spend "more [money] on national defence than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined", US infant mortality rates were, as of 2013, "the highest in the developed world".

    The Special Rapporteur provides a barrage of other details from his own visit to the US, during which he was able to observe the country's "bid to become the most unequal society in the world" - with some 40 million people living in poverty - as well as assess "soaring death rates and family and community destruction wrought by prescription and other drug addiction".

    Capitalism, it seems, is a deadly business indeed.

    ...To be sure, rampant drug use and abuse is hardly surprising in a society in which money and profit have so superseded human life in importance that people often literally cannot afford to live.

    Some, however, choose alternate methods of escape from the brutality of reality - as is hinted at by a 2018 study from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that indicates skyrocketing suicide levels across the country.

    ...Overconsumption, unbridled contamination, and resource exploitation have put us on a fast track to a "point of no return", as climate scientists have warned.

    ...It bears emphasising, too, that, in the US, enthusiastic bipartisan support for war - a pillar of the imperialist enterprise - translates into not only mass death for people on the receiving end of bombs and drone attacks, but also large-scale environmental poisoning. As Newsweek observed in 2014, the US Defence Department is one of the top polluters on the planet.
    To be honest, she does slip from a focus on society to anti-capitalism. Yet the only alternative to capitalism (corporatism) is socialism, mercantilism and fascism having been defeated and left to the dustbin of history. But what does socialism offer but an equal share in more of what some of you all blame on capitalism:


    (from Stephen Hicks - Explaining Postmodernism In 2018 @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGbHG63x8w)

    And while her focus is on anti-US sentiment, it could be applied to much of the rest of the world which embrases the same economic liberalism and liberal democracy.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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