3 Plagues, 3 Contagions threaten the world

[yodermon]

link

[hifiguy]

1. I'd offer two, myself.

Greed in the form of capitalism, and everything that comes with it (environmental disaster, exploitation and destruction of the planet's resources and human beings, its intimate relationship to nationalism and racism); and

Superstition in the form of all religions with a perpetually pissed-off and psychotic godhead that "needs appeasement."

Best exposition I have heard is this one

[yodermon]

3. thanks for the carl sagan link, will watch it n/t

[hifiguy]

4. Seeing that hour of Cosmos nearly 35 years ago

changed nearly everything I had ever thought about life and the universe, and did so forever. Sagan's thoughts and words therein are the closest thing to a moral and intellectual creed I have ever had.

[FlatBaroque]

5. Interesting....you speak of Sagan with the same regard

that I hold for Joseph Campbell; and it was 25 years ago I watched The Power of Myth, which set my life's vision.

[lpbk2713]

2. Add Classism.

The Privileged Class have their own set of rules. All other rules apply to the little people.