Humanity's Four Fires
Human beings have always been infected by the four fires of greed, hatred, ignorance and delusion.........
Human societies have devised various means to mitigate this problem; the two most prominent appear to be religion and the rule of law.
The USA is currently experiencing a conflagration of these fires that have been fueled by globalization and the resultant wealth transfer from the workers of this country to their corporate employers and their shareholders. I have been puzzled that we don’t hear more about globalization as the main cause of the political mess we are in until I realized that the wealth transfer not only increased the wealth of the corporations
and their shareholders but it provided a political constituency of the shareholders with a self interest not to criticise the corporations for their inhumane treatment of the workers by sending their livelihoods to asia.