The profit motive

Picture taken: 20 Nov 2005, 3:59pm.

So long as the profit motive and Globalisation reign supreme, human disaffection and dysfunction are going to increase. I wonder what the difference is between Eurofreeze and Phillip Green, both indulging in the pursuit of wealth and profit, one illegally, the other legally - or at least with a nod and wink from UK law?

Human life is held in little regard generally, though perhaps a little better than animal life. I wonder if life will ever be regarded of worth in and for itself? It hasn't happened yet in all the annuls of history. Our technical sophistication manages to camouflage our personal and psychological naivete, but never quite hides it. History is littered with war, oppression, greed, hatred and intolerance. As a general social/political/economic model we haven't tried love yet, that is still the domain of hippies and loonies, perhaps it's time.