Gaia Capitalist

"America's Shrinking Middle Class"  "Foreclosing on the American Dream"  "More Children Living in Poverty in the United States" "Bankruptcy Rates Up Sharply Since 2003"  "Health Care Unavailable for Millions of Americans at Any Price"  "Federal Deficit Balloons Out of Control as War Cost Approaches $350 Billion" "United States Incercerates More People than Any Other Country including China"

These are the headlines that define the great nation of the United States as we enter 2007.  More children are homeless, more families are without food, more neighborhoods are ravaged by meth addicts, more cities have been given over to gangs, more freedom has been relinquished to the government.  Fear has replaced optimism, suspicion has become our state attitude.

When I first started this blog I wrote the description "Gaia Capitalism ... combining profit and philanthropy".  I'm beginning to realize that the premise itself - that profit and philanthropy are separate - is the fundamental flaw of American Capitalism. The traditional dialectic states "thesis meets anti-thesis forming synthesis which becomes the new thesis ... on and on." If the thesis standing today is based on everything that we have come to accept as right and justifiable in society, then the Gaialectic has to begin with a new thesis.

"Profit and philanthropy are the same thing."