Excess

February 26, 2010 · Posted in Social, Tao · Comment 
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Today we often associate greed with big corporations and business execs with yearly bonuses greater than many people earn in a lifetime.  According to research, the top 1% of Americans account for 43% of financial wealth and the bottom 80% account for only 7% of financial wealth.  On a larger scale, 1% of the population controls about 40% of the world’s net worth.  The bottom 50% of the entire world’s population accounts for only 1.1% of the total global wealth.

These extremes do demonstrate just how imbalanced things are. Presented with finite resources, finite wealth and growing population, it doesn’t make sense that our advanced 21st century civilization would even consider such conditions, much less tolerate them.

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Ownership

February 9, 2010 · Posted in Tao · Comment 
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Everything in the world today is considered property.  People own land.  People own material goods.  People even own procedures and concepts.

Humanity’s need to own things wasn’t stopped when we ran out of things to own.  Your very own experiences are considered a commodity.  If you listen to music or watch a movie without the appropriate people being “rightfully” compensated first, you have committed a crime.

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The Sun Will Set

February 3, 2010 · Posted in Tao · Comment 
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Our society is obsessed with many things.  One of them is youth, or at least the appearance of it.  Desiring to remain young or even return to an earlier age is nothing new, certainly.  Stories of magical elixirs and fountains of youth have been around for ages.  Yet this desire to reverse the effects of time has grown far beyond myths and legends and become a full time industry.

We have creams to fade age spots and hide wrinkles.  We have dyes for our hairs to restore color where the color has left.  There are thousands of products to make us look younger and feel younger, and when those fail we hire surgeons to forcefully remove what could no longer be hidden.

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