Free Market America!

To start with there’s nothing wrong with the Free Market. I feel I must begin with that statement because I’ve had comments from readers trying to argue with me that the Free Market is one of the oldest and most important social/economical creation in human history. They go on, in excess, about its discovery in every emerging culture since Babel.

So here I state with out malice or corrosions that it is indeed a great and powerful creation, and in many forms has served to expand and strengthen many societies from Hittites’ to Toltecs’. But the Free Market is not in itself a moral institution, it is simply an idea. And ideas are as malleable as clay. There is no moral to the idea of the trade of goods or services. There is no moral to it save what we impose and if there ever was then slavery and child labor wouldn’t have to be illegal. So to you who believe that the mere presents of Free Market is good please put down the remote, turn off The Big Valley and pick up a book on Slavery in the Americas or Sweat Shops!

Those are just a few small examples of Free Market America’s higher profile ‘issues’, there are many-many more. Yet despite all it’s shortcomings I do believe in a Free Market economy. It is a vital and important part of our social expansion. But without a moral focus we can all see how the opportunists, who are out there selling American Flags on September, 12^th 2001 can poison a good and healthy world.

So, here it is, what’s the answer? How can you balances an idea based on selling people what they want at a profit with not exploiting those same, or other people, in the process? Indeed should it matter? Well there are those who would say, of course it doesn’t matter. So many of us have been taken advantage of by Free Market ideas isn’t it only fair play to pass it along?!

NO! No, it’s not fair play. It’s pain, its fear, and it’s hatred. It is! Don’t dismiss this, it is! It’s everything that pissed you off when it first happened to you. It’s that anger you can’t get ride of because God is no longer there to absolve your pain. It’s just you and your sins now. No you’re too busy to worry about your soul. It’s just you’re body you fill, with booze and music.

But you don’t need to go so where or pray to let go of your anger. To see what’s right and what’s exploitation. All you really need to do is think about that silly little Golden Rule, you know Huey, Dewey, and Louie taught you as kids?!

Because sure it may have just been a big advertisement to buy Disney, but don’t be so angry at the Dollarfication that you miss the modern tale of morality the writers tried to pass along.