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Capitalists, Whatever Happened to "Survival of the Fittest"?

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A spiteful analysis of the demise of die-hard capitalism and those who believe it is "God's Gift."

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Now that you're choking on your own greed, you want "help" from your own victims, whom you have always considered inferior and unworthy?

Called "Social Darwinism" a century ago, the phenomenon of unfettered capitalism is as ugly as a dying species devouring its own young. Even at the edge of the precipice, capitalists have continued to believe their economic system was blessed by Darwin.

History shows the people we call capitalists are nothing if not adaptable. No doubt the first pimp was the pioneer entrepreneur who skimmed a profit off someone else's work.

Capitalists had to keep coming up with reasons they should be entitled and the other 99 percent of humanity should not. First, they invented "Divine Right." That was a euphemism for "God said I was king."

When God and nobility fell out of favor after the rise of scientific determinism, the capitalists quickly became the product of "natural selection," meaning: entitled to rule the serfs, or the proletariat, or the slaves, whichever the economy required.

But, alas, these inbred, hubristic slugs are not even fully evolved!

They have either sold their souls and operate from the same archaic and evil limbic impulses as do reptiles,

                                OR,

Their souls have atrophied with venality and greed,

                             OR BOTH.

They are the end of an evolutionary branch. Capitalism is dead, and soon, capitalists will follow.

Don't mourn them. They will crop again in another guise. If you meet them, treat them like you're walking in snake country: Wear tall boots and carry a shotgun.

 

Fulbright in 1966-67; Visiting Lecturer in American Literature with Baghdad University/Texas University Exchange Program. Guest Lecturer for the American Authors Lecture Series for the United States Information Service in Iraq. Co-authored with (more...)
 

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gimme a break by Patrick Henry on Thursday, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:57:13 PM
Denial isnt just a river in Egypt Patrick... by Steven Leser on Thursday, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:09:23 PM