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After language and measure have labeled and quantified the world, and science made it an object, the next step is to turn it into a commodity. Chapter Four describes the vast consequences of the conversion of all wealth (social, cultural, natural, and spiritual) into money. Phenomena as diverse as the dissolution of community, the weakening of friendship, the rise of intellectual property, the shortening of attention spans, the professionalization of music and art, and the destruction of the environment have a common source in our system of money and property, which in turn arises from (and reinforces) our self-conception as discrete and separate beings in an objective universe of others. To simply try to stop being so greedy will never be enough, because selfishness is built in at an impossibly deep level. This selfishness, however, is not "human nature", but rather human nature denied, human nature contorted by our misconception of who we are.

This is a must see! We need to do something different concerning the economy.
Charles wrote an awesome book with this info and more in it. It's available online, full text at

ascentofhumanity.com

Fabulous! Wishing the best for Christopher Hitchens!