“Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.”
Cree Indian Proverb

It’s the right thing to do—for the greater good. These are words that you will never hear or said within the capitalistic paradigm. Even with the emergence of green commerce, we still discover profits, at whatever cost, outweighing all of the other so-called ecological responsible hyperbolic language of concern for the environment. Making disgusting amounts of money and wealth for the few still holds supreme as these are the marching orders of Capitalism. As usual hypocrisy is alive and well.

Things will never change as long as the capitalistic paradigm reigns supreme. No matter how much of an attempt is made to present the illusion of being half-pregnant, such as compassionate capitalism or green capitalism, the whole purpose of capitalism is the bottom-line. It is fundamentally meant to profit the few at the expense of the majority while depleting and ultimately destroying vast natural resources and the various creatures that depend on them and a balanced eco-system for their survival and continuance.

It is the same as a church deeming themselves Christian but then stating that they don’t believe in original sin—sorry, if you are Christian then original sin is part of your belief; if not, then you and your church are not Christian. The same goes for economics. If we put forth that we are green and striving for a partnership with nature, then the paradigm that we would subscribe to would need to be egalitarian in nature not capitalistic. Of course, this is not occurring, money is still the siren song and the only alternatives up to the present time have been socialistic in context, which in my mind is another failed paradigm. Further on, I briefly present a new alternative social/economic paradigm called Intrinsic Egalitarianism.

At the present though and quite simply, our world is ruled by a materialistic elitist cadre of political/religious/corporate/banker scavengers that bottom feed off of the fear-soaked blood of their people. One time in Central America I happened to be talking to a British woman who was the executive secretary to the head of a worldwide management consulting company. After a few minutes of the usual polite ‘chit chat,’ she began to open up to me her suppressed feelings about her boss. Undoubtedly his work and home life is so much easier because of her diligence in handling his financial and personal affairs. In a world guided by the light of Intrinsic Egalitarianism, we would anticipate respect and kindness in return for her unwavering efforts. But in our present world governed by the greedy egotistical darkness of Capitalism….

After a few minutes, she finally poured out her true feelings to me. I was a stranger, but a safe one, reflecting a feeling within her heart that I would listen to her unconditionally while making no judgments or assumptions about her. Always guarded in her work-life and presenting an image—a false face—that was expected of her, she truly had no one to talk to about her resentments, angers and frustrations. The following are a few of her comments paraphrased:

I know everything about my boss—his financial affairs, even his dosage of blood pressure medication, but do you suppose that he knows anything about me… no…. He’s rude to me… even one time he told me that I wasn’t being paid to think….

How sad, but on the other hand, how angering that one human being, so giving and loyal, would be treated as such by another human being. And to make things even more out of balance and worse, her boss is the CEO of a company that helps other companies manage their people—the greatest and most precious resource that any company can have are its people; not just the elites at the top of the pile, but every employee is equal and worthwhile and deserves respect and a caring attitude—except in today’s world. Capitalism is a scourge on the earth. It will be viewed as the darkest of the dark paradigms that have ever occurred on this earth.

Inequality, war, habitat change, warmer oceans, global heating up and melting down—this is the legacy of Capitalism. In the name of profit and Capitalism, “things that normally happen in geologic time are happening during the span of a human lifetime.”[i] And this foreshadows the foretold ‘earth changes.’