The Finesse of Finance – Part One
“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.” – Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
Category: Money, Sex, Power & Faith
Portions of the book Money, Sex, Power & Faith by Steve McAllister
Playing with Bubbles
“Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.”- Ernst F. Schumacher
Corporations Get a New Lease On Life
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson
The Me Generation
“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.” – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
America’s High Point of Happiness and the Sexual Revolution
The following is a chapter from Money, Sex, Power & Faith. Order your copy in paperback or for Kindle! “The owners of this country know the truth… it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!” – George Carlin In 1931, historian James Truslow Adams popularized …
Women Work on Equality
“A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.” – Gloria Steinem
Communism Considered
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
Christianity and Corporations: The Legacies of the Roman Empire
Although the Roman Empire considered this Jesus figure to be more pesky than prophetic at the time, they reportedly crucified him for claiming he was a king before adopting the religion loosely based on his teachings 3 centuries later.
Faith Beyond Money
Just as China was braced for the leather dollar and the often delirious and deleterious effects that money can have on people by the introduction of Buddhism, an argument might be made that Christ’s monumental appearance, and it’s subsequent splitting of what we know as time, may have been some sort of cosmic answer to the ramifications of the Roman Empire’s new economic innovations.
And God Said, “Let There Be Money”
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” – Napoleon Bonaparte