[Buddha-l] Re: Getting real about Buddhism and capitalism

[Benito Carral]

On Saturday, October 1, 2005, Richard P. Hayes wrote:

> After   seeing   how   much   money   the  blue  chip
> corporations made by selling goods to both Hitler and
> the  Allies,  it's  not  hard to jump (or take a baby
> step)  to the conclusion that many major corporations
> have  no concern whatsoever with morality and will do
> business with anyone who has the cash or good credit.

   I  don't  know if you have watched _The Corporation_
documentary  by  Mark  Achbar,  Jennifer  Abbott & Joel
Bakan,  a  must see in relation with the present topic.
Corporations are ruled by greed, so they can't generate
global  and  sustainable  good results. World economics
and politics are ruled by psychopaths.

> It  is  also apparent that it's time for Buddhists to
> get  serious  about the central plank of all Buddhist
> practice,  namely,  renunciation,  since  that is the
> most  effective  way to boycott the corporations that
> are destroying our environment, undermining democracy
> everywhere  and leaving us all increasingly incapable
> of discerning truth from propaganda and PR.

   Nowadays I tend to think that if we wait to organize
an effective global boycott it would be too late. There
is  a  common topic in the global justice movement, how
should  we  act?  I'm  not sure. What I know is that we
should take the power from the corporations and give it
to  the  people--the  problem with this is that most of
people   are  is  already  brainwashed  by  the  global
corporative  liberal  gibberish.  In  fact,  although I
don't  like to recognize it in public (but, damn!, this
is  the  Buddhist  hell,  isn't?),  I really think that
there  is  not  solution.  This  is the Ending Age, our
society  and our world would be destroyed and something
new will take their place, and I'm sure that it will be
for good. Now I'm trying to figure out creative ways to
accelerate the destruction with the less harm involved.

   Best wishes,

   Beni