Ending and Beginning

I complain about American culture being about the worship of money and material possessions above all. But isn’t that what I’m doing?

I don’t like the education my kids are getting in public school, I don’t like the behavior and language they pick up there. So why don’t I quit my job and homeschool them?

Because I’m clinging to my job because we have to have that middle-class income to buy the stuff we want and I’m hoping for some kind of retirement in another 8 years or so. And I fear poverty. How is that different from what most people are doing?

It’s not. We all want what we want, and mostly we want money and stuff. We’re really not that interested in freedom or liberty or equality — we want our stuff and we want a system of government that will protect our stuff from each other and from outsiders. THAT’s our true priority and belief system (the acquisition and protection of stuff). We are an amoral society.

What would a moral society look like? What would a moral life look like?

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