There is not a challenge on earth that we face at the moment that does not have some form of greed – an insatiable desire for increased material wealth(money/power) – at it’s deepest core…
Thousands of years ago money was invented to meet a need and went on to play a critical role in our evolution. It allowed for the development and expansion of global trade and travel, enhancing and broadening our collective life experiences.
It’s difficult to determine exactly when the exchange medium became more important than the product or service. Possibly as it was equated with power, morphing it into the most destructive force of all time.
It’s worth noting that money, in it’s earliest form, had a level of intrinsic value, those days are long gone…
Our unquestioned desire for increased material wealth is causing unprecedented environment devastation across the globe – ongoing habitat and species destruction both on land in our oceans, supported by reduced air quality.
Greed has been undermining our physical health for generations and is set to continue unabated, while the producers of food and food products place profit ahead of nutritional value and the delusion of mass medicine dominates health care.
Greed sets us against one another, we are viewed as income streams rather than individuals, doing our best to hold it together while surrounded by predators – all wanting a share of whatever little we have…
Greed stifles evolution – inhibits uptake of new technologies as we cling to the lucrative old – dismissing anything that cannot be monetized and promoting the impossible – infinite growth on a finite planet!! Material wealth is deemed more important than life its self, ALL forms of life…
And finally, greed dumbs us down, it has us living a one dimensional life, dominated by work, and will continue to as we absorb the earn more own more messages presented by 21st century western culture.
Why?? Because GREED is fear based – if we are afraid we cannot think straight, we lack objectivity, we look to the past rather than the future, feeding the downward spiral.
It does not have to be this way. We are an intelligent species and we get to choose the life we lead. We can choose to see past the earn more consume more messages by putting OUR health and well being, and that of our planet, ahead of the greed machine.
As each message presents ask yourself: What do they want from me? What do they want me to think? What do they want me to do?
They can only manipulate you if you choose to let them, choose health and well being over the greed machine.