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By now, it’s quite likely that you are reeling from all the different avenues that a corrupted system has to keep itself spiraling out of control. As we attempt to shift the focus off of responsibility, we lose track of our true calling, which is above all to leave our children a better world than we found.

Ideally, with a proper reward pyramid, we have a sense of attachment to the environment and a sensitivity for our place in it. Because we are designed to create, produce and contribute, we feel empty without achievement, without a sense of accomplishment. However, once greed takes hold of the way we see the world, our priorities radically shift away from interconnectivity toward a much more isolated and alienated perspective.

Yet despite what we tell ourselves in shareholder meetings, automobile showrooms, classrooms and in the media, we know that ours is a cowardly, selfish pursuit.

In our hearts we know that this war we’re waging on our children and grandchildren is even more barbaric and unforgivable as those waged throughout our history - as the victims, the future generations, are literally not here to even defend themselves.

And so we become saddled with guilt and shame.

Yet society tells us that the only way to assuage the guilt and shame that consumption creates is through more consumption – and so we race ahead filling the void by ‘develop’ing and ‘progress’ing as fast as possible, blindly gobbling everything in our path with a scotched earth policy, putting the burden on future generations to come up with yet more advanced technologies to somehow extract yet more resources from a spent environment. Again, the priority has shifted away from their importance towards our own - but the undeniable truth is that ours is the ultimate in cowardly acts, for we are simply taking what is not ours from people who are absolutely unable to defend themselves.

The problem with greed is that it is by its nature insatiable. It is a desire for more, more, more - without end - regardless of how much is lost getting it.

The inability to reconcile what we know is right and what we do separates us from our true calling - which is to be responsible, not irresponsible. The injury runs deep; although greed promotes the belief that we are superior to the environment, it also denies us the ability to be part of it, which further degrades our self-perception and invites more greed.

And so ironically all our efforts at feeling better become instead inherently unsatisfying! Greed-based goals are, in fact, unachievable. Unless we can change the way that greed inverts our view of ourselves, we will end up addicted to it’s manipulation of the reward system.

Thus, greed and nihilism become the final result of corruption, and the final stop for mankind.