D. K. Blaire
Sep 20, 2024

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Hey Samuel, apologies for the belated response; I only noticed your comment now.

Thank you very much; your compliments are appreciated.

To answer your question,

I believe a move away from prioritizing the profit-motive would catalyze a shift from the competitive, dog eat dog society that fosters narcissism, and towards values more moralistic and egalitarian in nature.

Capitalism promotes the worst human qualities and tendencies imaginable - greed, selfishness, gluttony, hoarding, egotism, even paranoia and anxiety.

What's required in my view is total systemic change.

Once we establish a system based on alternative values, such as kindness, empathy, generosity, openness, it will no longer be "cool" to be narcissistic or psychopathic, and one would hope that subsequently, since these characteristics are no longer celebrated, they will begin to die out of their own accord.

What do you think?

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D. K. Blaire
D. K. Blaire

Written by D. K. Blaire

Free thinker. Free wheeler. Never-back-downer. Author of Chattel Rising, The Schizo etc. Top writer in economics and climate change. Editor of Media Maverick.

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