What is wealth bondage?

[undergroundpanther]

Wealth Bondage is pervasive, the horizon within which postmodern life, in every aspect, appears to us as a Market. Wealth Bondage is the basis of all domestic and foreign policy. Wealth Bondage is a well kept secret. Wealth Bondage is hidden in plain sight.

http://www.ericblumrich.com/idiot.html


"Anyone--regardless of their net worth--
who believes that they must be rich, that more is always better,
is a self-condemned prisoner of the 'golden ghetto'."
-- Jessie H. O'Neill

http://www.affluenza.com/aboutaff.html


"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers is brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out… and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel… And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man' -- with his mouth."
-- Mark Twain, What Is Man


A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe,
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself,
his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest.A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

I recommend this matter to your serious pondering, for it is certain that
the prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William James (1842-1910)
The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902 (1961 translation)
Lectures 14-15

[xchrom]

1. that's a good diagnosis of the post modern american.

and it also describes why so many people stay home from the polls -- and often behave irrationally when faced with the topic of taxes.

grover norquist must be the patron saint -- and ronald reagan the godhead.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. there is really abundance

but it is a poverty of perception that causes a lot of woes. Rich people who want more are truly impoverished. Those who are content with what they have, no matter how much or how little, are truly rich.