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Phil Rockstroh: Cash Of The Titans: Against The Noxious Fantasy Of Limitless Growth
Published on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Common Dreams
Cash Of The Titans: Against The Noxious Fantasy Of Limitless Growth
by Phil Rockstroh
The concept of endless economic growth, accepted as sacrosanct by both U.S. mainstream political parties, and internalized as the dominant mode of mind by the general population of the corporate/consumer state is mirrored in the exponential mathematics of a malignancy.
Cancer, if given voice, would proclaim itself to be a believer in "free market values"…devoted to the principle of endless growth…until, of course, it would silence its own voice by killing its host.
Likewise, all life seeks limits or prematurely dooms itself.
The same holds true with addiction to unlimited economic expansion…the craving for incessant ascension is, in fact, a doomed Icarusian flight. .............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/22
