Corruption and greediness
I just watched an hour and a half long video about the dangers of genetically modified foods. I don't want to get into it here though, but if you want to check it out here it is http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5888040483237356977&hl=en. The part that just got to me though was how other people on the planet could put money above the health of other people. It was dismaying. After many weeks now of studying how the Bush administration has really messed up this country I just felt like I couldn't take any more negative information. There just seems to be so much widespread corruption I really felt like I just wanted to be numb to it, tune out and entertain myself and pretend it's not going on.
I can see how a lot of Americans can become sheeple. You get desensitized to things after being repeatedly exposed to them. After a while even outrageous and blatant corruption becomes tolerable. Or perhaps you get too tired of fighting all the damn time. Every day it seems like someone's preaching about something that's going to kill you.
As much as I want to get dismayed though, and perhaps muster up the conviction to pick up a picket sign, the kind of corruption and greed that "evil" corporations exhibit comes from individual people. And not just a few people, but really most everyone. It's been said many many many times over just as many years that power corrupts. If you had the power to do something would you? Would you do something that benefited you at the expense of another? It's probably easy to say no you wouldn't when you don't have any power, when the question is just hypothetical. I like to think I wouldn't either but I wonder. All that evil corruption out there didn't just come from nowhere, it came from individual people, people just like me...