Corporate Capitalism Is At War With Nature, Corporate Media Is At War With Reality

Corporate capitalism is a train running full speed towards a cliff. Whatever brakes the train once had have been stripped from it in order to streamline its forward movement.

We are all passengers on this train, lured aboard by the promise it would take us where we wanted to go. And it has delivered all it has promised and more, at least for those of us not shoveling the coal. The only problem is, every time we arrive at the station we believed was the promised land, the train just kept going. What would have been viewed as technological miracles by our grandparents now clog our landfills because they are last generation technology nobody wants. Thus far, all that we are told would give us happiness ends up being discarded as worthless.

We got on this train not merely because of the material goods corporate capitalism provided us but because we were led to believe such products would bring us happiness. But the happiness achieved by our acquisitions is transitory, leaving in its wake a greater emptiness that must be filled. Each time we acquire a new possession, we are again made unhappy the moment the newest model comes out. Our vehicles are more spacious than prior generations ever would have imagined or even thought to ask for, our televisions sport larger screens and higher definition than our parents would have thought tasteful for placing in their living rooms. We possess so many toys and gadgets that we have to build or rent storage units…