Well said. I can’t think of a thing to add. I particularly like the “the culprit is civilization and the type of government and economic system is irrelevant.” It’s nice to see that in “black and white.”

Interesting read, and nice to see a post by you here. Thanks for getting involved.

“To meet the demand for retribution by Mother country France, the Haitian government had to take out high interest loans, which saw the debt remaining on the books until 1947. Between the year of 1804 to 1934, Haiti witnessed a consistent state of small periods of relative stability and prosperity overturned by deep periods of political and social unrest, upheaval, and turmoil that witnessed the inevitable occupation by the United States from 28 July 1915 to mid-August of 1934 during a very volatile period that afflicted Haiti as continuing debts initiated by former governmental economic policies marred any real long-term sustainability of economic growth and development.”

I am wondering when the finger pointers on the left and right and the conspiracy theorists are going to wake up and realize the culprit is civilization and the type of government and economic system is irrelevant. They are all repressive and brutal in bring about their desired results and My Heart is Buried at Wounded Knee, Auschwitz, Dresden, Hiroshima, et al.

And they are all at the core at their very heart and soul competitive capitalism.

The possibility exist, as possibilities do, that we could alter this negative cultural loop of competition/dominance to a positive one of cooperation/creativity, a shift from exploitation of resources human and natural to one of nurturing.

It’s just a possibility.

Thanks to Kim Urig for the link to this.