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Doris Wrench Eisler's avatar

It's not just the money, the yachts, private jets and islands, as wonderful though they are (to some): it's the emotional/intellectual associations that translate into status. That started with Freud and his nephew Bernays used it as a product selling strategy. It's all about what ownership says about you, not the thing-in-itself. What these idiots can't figure out is that the race to own everything makes you a slave to others' opinions and crap standards. It's also a perversion of natural instincts: everything is more enjoyable when others are enjoying them with you. Like who prefers to eat a special meal alone? Can you really enjoy yourself without suspending, for a time at least, the terrible suffering so many are forced to endure? Hoarding, especially to unlimited degree, is usually considered a mental illness. But the world is ordered to encourage this personality type to possess far in excess of anything reasonable. It's a crap system. It must and will stop, one way or another: either rationally or gone berserkers.

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NanaW's avatar

The ones holding the keys of power and wealth had many of us bamboozled for a century or so. The veil is being lifted off our eyes more each day; plus they seem tired of dissembling any longer, and are just flat out telling and showing us what they really think of we plebes. They want a feudal system again, and are doing all they can to shove the middle class back down.

It’s all untenable and unsustainable, but it’s hard to say what and when the tipping point will be.

I pray it arrives soon. The tension as the string keeps being stretched to its breaking point is difficult. Not that when it snaps will be a cake walk.

Thanks for another great article!

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