The Madness of Western Civilization.

Regard with your attention this strange community madness which characterizes our present civilization. The source of this madness is known and perfectly understandable. The madness springs from the human condition itself- and has arisen out of our deep evolutionary past- with the long memory of want and struggle. The early desperate struggle for survival was hard- and created a hardness in man. This hardness did not leave human nature after the arrival of success and ease. Rather, the hardness persisted over the many generations and the millenia- to continually generate a compulsive need for activity and acquisition. This is the primal source of the obsessive neurotic condition called greed.

Our civilization was built upon this hardness. Yet this hardness, which enabled our species' survival while we were few and weak, moves now to provide also for our eradication- along with the greater part of life on earth.

Hardness is now transformed into madness, having produced its crowned achievement- the political economic system we know as Capitalism. And now, Global Capitalism as a system marks at one and the same time both the apex and nadir of Western and World Civilization.

Kalinzskii