Think hard

A friend of mine wrote a glowing endorsement of the soon-to-be-replacement of one of the most hapless congressmen to represent my district. My friend was impressed with the new candidate because his message came out strongly as a campaign for our children, now and the generations to come. He indeed will work to make changes that will turn around the present farce we installed in the white house – twice mind you.
This will be no easy job, nor will it happen as easily or quickly as we would like. The reason is our economic system so erroneously called “free enterprise” is not free enterprise at all. Laws encourage Ann Rand's deliberate misinterpretation of Darwin's term “survival of the fittest” where it is imperative that dog eat dog.
The attitude appealed to entrepreneurship. Even more it appealed to companies that combined and dominated the markets. Psychologists write ads to sell frivolous products as absolute necessities.
We gave children more than we had because we could. Trouble is: the more an animal gets, the more it wants. I expect it will take a generation or two, maybe more, for normal human logic to kick in. It will or our species will lose to natural selection. How soon will society realize that we can not survive on greed alone? (or the adage: The one with the most toys wins.)
Most things are built an inch at a time so with thoughtful builders in place, it will happen. Getting people elected who have human needs in mind is a step in the right direction.
Naomi Sherer