People often accuse Socialists of wanting to take their
property. Why would I want the property
of the egocentrically, thoughtlessly and destructively rich? It would make me as crazy as they are. They are the chief product of the cult of
greed – in and of itself a disease. The
major complication of this deliberately induced infection is a long term and
acute myopia. The greedy persist in
confusing the synthetic power of their money with the real power of the
universe. When the universe jumps up and
bites them in the ass, and they realize that their money is after all just
green paper, they are abjectly melancholy in their astonishment. I have no sympathy for them and, not being a
Christian, very little forgiveness. I might
forgive greed, maybe. Willful stupidity,
never! What else can it be when people
who must have it all – theirs, yours and what is left over – strive to avoid
the knowledge that their own vicious, misery breeding action is prologue to their
own inevitable nightmare? It isn’t a
difficult concept and was best articulated by Bernard Shaw, “In an ugly and
unhappy world the richest of men can purchase nothing but ugliness and
unhappiness.”
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