[Buddha-l] Thoughts on action in 2007

[curt]

jkirk wrote:
>
> I realize that some members of this list are rampant individualists 
> and hearty capitalists,

Individualism and Capitalism are mutually exclusive. Capitalism, as its 
name implies, is a social system in which only money is valued - and 
everything else is valued with reference to money. In such a soul-less 
society individualism is merely a marketing ploy to sell carbonated 
beverages.

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not 
money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though 
I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all 
knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove 
mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my 
goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have 
not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and is kind; 
money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not 
behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh 
no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth 
all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all 
things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the 
greatest of these is money."

http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/prose/KeepAspidistraFlying/index.html

- Curt