When We Realize The Degree

I Thought That, Given The System Of Rewards Central To Our Economic System, In Which Profit Maximization Is Valued Above All Else And Specifically Above Life, It Is Probably Just As Irresistible To The Owners Of Capital (human Or Otherwise) To Exploit Workers (and The Land): "nothing Personal," They Say As They Load Their Property Onto The Ship Bound For The Middle Passage, "but A Man's Gotta Turn A Dime."

I Am Only So Beautiful As The Character Of My Relationships, Only So Rich As I Enrich Those Around Me, Only So Alive As I Enliven Those I Greet.

As Is True For Most People I Know, I've Always Loved Learning. As Is Also True For Most People I Know, I Always Hated School. Why Is That?

Hope Is A Longing For A Future Condition Over Which You Have No Agency; It Means You Are Essentially Powerless.

Premise Eight: The Needs Of The Natural World Are More Important Than The Needs Of The Economic System.