Deliver us from evil

The glaring, tragic problem with the way we have organized our economy is that we have arranged it such that the pursuit of profit is more highly rewarded than the pursuit of happiness.

Since ugly, gargantuan schools are cheaper than local, manageably-sized schools, we send our kids to boxy test-factories and celebrate our efficiency.

Since baseball must make ever-more profit, watching a game on television becomes a blur of sales promotions and the game itself becomes a vehicle for the selling.

The music industry is so debased with risk aversion that products like Hillary Duff can be designed in a boardroom and puked out on the industrial airwaves to consumers that have become zombie-like celebrity addicts.

Why are we doing this to ourselves and how do we create a happiness economy or a love economy? How do we take our economy's good attributes, like it's ability to move goods efficiently and reward hard work, and get rid of it's bad attributes like it's ability to ruin baseball and create poverty?

A child should no more starve for lack of money than a bird should fail to sing for want of notes. Both are intellectual constructs and both scenarios are equally silly, yet we allow the child-starvation scenario to play out every single day.

If a doctor's passion is to heal the sick and there are sick to be healed, why should money be allowed to stand between happiness and fulfillment, need and service?

Are the rich (or possessive) any happier than anybody else? Are they any more free?

Are the poor (or dispossessed) less entitled to economic support by circumstance, birth, or genetics?

Why should our servitude to money be more persistent than to a child's hunger?

Think of the disease, the starvation, the wars, the wretched poverty blanketing the earth and imagine your celestial self rolling the karma dice. What do you think the odds are that your karma will take you to a decent standard of living if you are to reincarnate?

Before anybody thinks I favor Karl Marx's solutions, I would like to state that I feel Communism, Capitalism, Socialism, Islam and Democracy are all corrupted by the influence of money (along with any other form of government you can name). What I propose, therefore, is to get rid of money and come up with a better system of government by default.

Do you ever wonder what such a world would look like?

I do, and I think I will hash some of this out. There are lots of Utopian novels out there and maybe reading some of them will point the way to a better society, one more nurturing and happiness rewarding.

If God is to ever deliver us from evil I'll bet he starts with money.