MONEY AND POWER
The drive for money and power often leads to unspeakable horrors. Nature is quite unforgiving, if both seem to be big enough, to risk all. Eat or be eaten, leaving all considerations of ethics aside! But mankind has not yet found a way to become immortal and therefore, each human being will eventually have to justify life’s actions on the day of reckoning at the end of life’s road. Life will become a lot easier if regrets in life can be limited to a bare minimum. This would mean restraining the ‘natural’ urge to do things, which may be regretted later.
Greed is good. Wouldn’t that benefit society as a whole and ‘feed the kids’? Not, if accompanied by cheating. Decency and integrity should always be part of the culture, otherwise society will eventually turn against those, who try to infect its moral fabric. There is no hope of getting away with dishonesty. It only lasts for so long and muddles the waters. Losing a reputation can be much worse than losing any possessions. A stain on your good name is nearly impossible to get rid of.
Are the unpleasant consequences of money and power grabs therefore ‘unstoppable’? How do you deal with a ‘no more mr. nice guy’ attitude? Fact is, that survival remains uppermost in the minds of us all. We do go along with dubious policies for far too long. However, the threat to those with money and power cannot be underestimated as well. Nature has a way of upsetting the apple cart in more ways than one! Nothing is permanent. No, Sir.
RICK SCHMULL
August 15th, 2014
WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.
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