The Wall Street of Broken Dreams

I am sorry to say this but I don't really think that the collapse of the modern business world comes as any surprise to those of us who have a background in the arts or humanities. Actually, anyone who is NOT a business major ought to have guessed that there would come a day. The problem isn't, of course, what the business world thinks it is. They are attempting to examine a fundamental rotteness at the core of American business using a language that is ultimately already corrupted. The truth is that for the last sixty years or so, the United States has been doing its best to make all desirable things (knowledge, creativity, a sense of relevance) lose their importance in comparison to the altar of money. Thus, no discipline, no knowledge, is really worth anything unless it creates cash flow. Of course, incidental to this view is also the idea that nothing is worth while if there are more immediate modes of receiving cash--hence, the rise of the business major and the decline of all historical or analytical knowledge.

No, I think when you have no ability to think of anything except the gaining of more money, you never realize the philisophical and human isssues that you are denying in order to get it. Maybe on paper a war for oil looks good, but as it turns out, eventually you have to pay for the decisions you make. Turn yourself into a monster and the villagers will eventually hunt you down and burn you at the stake.

I actually am firmly against the U.S. government bailing anybody out. I think that these people have shown the problems with excessive greed and ought to be demonized so that we never again move down these paths. This is what happens when people covet money and value nothing else. Let the subprime loan and the various corporate scandals be their death knell. Capitalism will recover. There's no need to become communist over this.