Comments on: The Great Black Friday Markdown

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:19:24 +0000

A culture that defines its very raison d'etre by endless accumulation of material possessions; by the unbounded acquisition of more money, money, money, money; by recklessly overconsuming and relentlessly hoarding limited resources, demonstrably declares to all the world that greed is good.

Are we not members of a culture that worships consumerism? Are the products of greed nothing more or less than the objects of our idolatry?

Are the pin-striped suits, fleet of cars, chauffeur, private jets, McMansions, distant hideaways, secret handshakes and exclusive clubs...... all signatures of success in a culture borne of the 'goodness' of greed?

Consider for a moment what greed has wrought.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:19:24 +0000

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:28:55 +0000

See the “Horsemen of the Apocalypse” ride during “blitz” of Wal Mart in Valley Stream, NY.

“Blitz” lines are a sign of the times. These 'lines' are designed to evince rampaging greed. How many other ploys can you think of that surreptitiously exploit human avarice?

Here and now we behold the chimera, the “paint horse and its pin-striped-suited rider, named GREED” being followed closely by a pale horse ridden by Death.

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:42:49 +0000

Behold a chimera on the far horizon, a paint horse upon which imperious and ignoble GREED rides. This horse and its pin-striped rider are an unexpected front runner, a Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. The “Four Horsemen” in tandem are following close behind.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,
established 2001
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