Capitalism- a Life Destroying Virus

Capitalist global financial systems treat everything as objects to be owned, bought, sold, exploited, for accrual of what is called wealth by the rich. They foster wars, poverty, disease, and destruction of the ecosystem for all forms of life. Only a tiny fraction of humans have historically benefitted from capitalist systems of money, commerce, science.. All the rest have certainly increased population numbers, but not in quality of life, and that life is about to be extinguished along with most other forms of it, by the waste making and ecosystem destruction of global capitalism. The buildings, apparatus, infrastructure of Global Capitalism make slaves of its human operators, all dedicated and addicted to increased consumption and waste-making.

 As only one example, people go to work for oil companies, from the CEO to the floor sweepers, because these companies offer a job that they think they need. Politicians do what oil companies want for the same reasons. The company, its buildings and soulless apparatus,  is in charge of its own future and that is, that of a self-destructive robot. No human agency will stop their march to doom us all. When the oil runs out, they will buy up Monsanto etc. and find a way to keep going awhile, as did the cigarette companies when their market began to shrink.



In my vision, the wolves have existed for 20 million years, in what I see as a near ideal form of life and culture, given their body type and abilities. Early humans must have had at least the same qualities. I don’t believe their lives were nasty and brutish, any more than is robin’s (who also finds plenty of time to sing) , and certainly not in the way that billions of humans now suffer physically and emotionally daily. 

If our young people today can organize in small self-sufficient pods as do the wolves, making optimum use of “small” science, they may have some resilience to survive the climate change, starvation, pestilence epidemics, civil wars, cultural collapse, contained in the future of global capitalism.