As stomach-churning as this sordid story is, what disturbs me further is that it is yet another example of the insidious and invidious subterfuge of "the public interest", "the general welfare", "the commons", "the commonweal", however one chooses to describe our common humanity. Instead, whatever that rightly and of necessity belongs to…
As stomach-churning as this sordid story is, what disturbs me further is that it is yet another example of the insidious and invidious subterfuge of "the public interest", "the general welfare", "the commons", "the commonweal", however one chooses to describe our common humanity. Instead, whatever that rightly and of necessity belongs to "the community at large" is appropriated by those ever-greedy interests whose only measure in life is money (augmented by a contempt for others and a dismissiveness and cynicism toward anything beyond them). In effect, "the commons" is being carved up into subdivisions, "developed", and sold off. It is only all too fitting that a real estate magnate (maggot?) who has filed for bankruptcy six times now occupies the White House (once termed "The People's House" and now a Tesla dealership).
As stomach-churning as this sordid story is, what disturbs me further is that it is yet another example of the insidious and invidious subterfuge of "the public interest", "the general welfare", "the commons", "the commonweal", however one chooses to describe our common humanity. Instead, whatever that rightly and of necessity belongs to "the community at large" is appropriated by those ever-greedy interests whose only measure in life is money (augmented by a contempt for others and a dismissiveness and cynicism toward anything beyond them). In effect, "the commons" is being carved up into subdivisions, "developed", and sold off. It is only all too fitting that a real estate magnate (maggot?) who has filed for bankruptcy six times now occupies the White House (once termed "The People's House" and now a Tesla dealership).