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some of the richest, most powerful and brightest people are actively trying to sweep people away for money. This is a big part of the problem IMO. General loss
by Al-Khwarizmi 8y ago
some of the richest, most powerful and brightest people are actively trying to sweep people away for money.
This is a big part of the problem IMO. General loss of moral values. I'm not religious at all, and criticize religions all the time, but one has to admit that when Christianity was the driving force in the western world, there were at least some values that were kind of universally accepted. Yes, there was lots of hypocrisy, and people acted against said values routinely, but at the very least most would feel bad about it or fear for their public image, and try to not be needlessly extreme at breaking them.
Now, Christianity has been replaced by ruthless capitalism, and people don't even have to pretend that they care about anything else than making piles of money. And if a company is criticized for using manipulative or exploitative techniques to make more money, regular people will even jump to defend it. I see it everyday on the Internet (e.g. forums for free games with monetizing techniques that border on inducing gambling addiction). They have accepted making money as the supreme value.
These capitalist morals that place money in the center of everything must die and be replaced by something else, or we are headed for dystopia.
- MrsPeaches 8y agoChristianity before the reformation was pretty wild with things like the purhase of indugences being common[1]. Point being that Christianity is not some bastion of past hope and glory but is a mutable set of morals that have radically changed in their 2000+ years of exsistance. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Late_Medieval_Usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Late_Medieval_Usage
- severine 8y agoNow? Really? Francisco de Quevedo, some 400 years ago: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/poderoso-caballero-es-don-dinero-lord-dollars.html https://lyricstranslate.com/en/poderoso-caballero-es-don-din...
- DoreenMichele 8y agoPerhaps you have heard of the Spanish Inquisition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition Perhaps the point of Jesus dying on the cross was to try to give some push back in the world against how truly horrifying things were two millennia ago, but it wasn't that long ago that personal duels were socially acceptable in the US and even more recently lynchings of people of color were a thing. I'm not convinced that there is actually some lost golden age of wonderful morality somewhere in our past. I'm highly skeptical of such claims.