Song of Division - Poem

(This is against self-justifying greed.)

Neither nor, either or—
I swear there is a difference
You slobs work for the good of all
I work for recompense.

Now that capitalism means
Fairness and truth don't matter,
My responsibility is to see
My wallet get fatter.

Individualism!
That is the word to live by—
Getting suitable benefit
Means I take, you give. Why?

Some of us are better,
Plain as the nose on your face.
If you don't see it, too bad—
Losing is no disgrace.

Money and property
Accumulate to those with taste:
Imagine losers with either—
It would be such a waste.

Not wasted in my hands—
Sensibility's a buffer
Ignorance insulates me from
Knowing things much tougher.

My justification?
I have taste— I said it before:
Desires that must be satisfied.
Wants you cannot ignore.

The fact is: I don't see
Or care about what I cause.
There are winners. There are losers,
Obeying nature's laws.

It's a law of nature,
A simple way of keeping score:
Your starvation and death mean nothing
As long as I have more.

I am a patriot
I am for the Land of the Free.
You wonder what we're fighting for?
It is for me, me, me.

Thinking

It seems that their are two behaviors called thinking. The first is real thinking that seeks to determine truth, that learns from mistakes and misperceptions. The second is called thinking, but is not "thinking" at all, but manipulation of facts and ideas to support faulty positions. Many explanations rationalize the event.

As Steven Pinker said in the blank slate, Page 43: The conscious mind—the self or soul—is a spin doctor, not the commander in chief.  

Dangerous experts

Financial and other "experts' are supposed to keep us out of trouble, not lead us into it. Are the "experts" who created the economic trouble really experts, or simply opportunists?

Experts fail when their "special knowledge" causes them to weaken valid statistical predictions because they "know more" or :"know essential facts."

But then, bad predictions are forgotten and often buried in reasonable-sounding explanations.

Wall Street profiting

Wall Street financial houses are supposed to make money when the economy is out of balance, and the U.S economy is way out of balance. However, dishonesty masks what is really wrong. If you prevent Wall Street firms from making the money they are supposed to make in a sick economy--this is addressing the symptom rather than the cause, which is a SICK economy. The problem is even deeper--society's values are sick, which makes the economy sick.