The American masses chase and embrace -- whether by choice or default -- material goods over spiritual goods. It doesn't matter if the capitalist masses fail to achieve the lofty heights of riches. Few Christians achieved moral sainthood. All that matters is this is what they believe they "should" be striving for. It is their beliefs that motivate their thoughts, feelings and behavior. As long as the American people believe in capitalism and vigorously defend their freedom to live as capitalism's deluded serfs, they will continue elevating Mammon-serving predators as their lords and masters and role models. And they will continue believing in -- and voting for -- people and ideas and values that are contrary to their own interests as human beings.
Capitalism is not about individual free enterprise within the kind of free market advocated by Adam Smith. Capitalism is about gaining monopoly control of entire industries to stamp out all competition and rule as a conqueror. Capitalism begins with primitive accumulation by conquest, genocide and vast thefts of entire peoples and nations and continents. Rising capitalist corporations -- enabled by bankers who literally enjoy the privilege and power to create the money they lend; and by corporate lawyers who legalistically circumvent all efforts to constrain monopolism -- buy out and subsume all their competitors to monopolize industries.
When JP Morgan created US Steel in 1901, for example, he subsumed over 200 "free market" steel producers into his new corporation. Frederick Lewis Allen's 1935 book, The Lords of Creation, chronicles the financial (money and stocks) and corporate legal manipulations by which ownership and control of the industrial and public infrastructure -- that was built up by American free enterprise -- was consolidated into the hands of a few monopoly capitalists.
Late stage capitalism (our era), having sucked humanity dry of money to earn as profit and having indebted the world to the bankers, becomes a financial casino where bankers create exciting new games of chance like "futures" and "derivatives". The games are zero sum: one party can only gain money if another party loses that money. Capitalism is a competitive power game that uses people and nations and resources as game pieces.
Ordinary people practice free enterprise, mind their own business, raise their own families, participate in their own communities, live and let live. Neurally incapable -- due to lack of or damage to the emotional wiring -- of feeling "normal" human feelings, thrill-seeking psychopaths seek to rule over everybody, make people do what they want, become gloriously rich and powerful, win the capitalist games. Psychopaths, giant-size egos, the avaricious, the power mad, delusions of grandeur, play at capitalism. "Normals" are buyout targets and grist for the fleecing mills.
We live in the world that bankers financed, capitalists commanded, and humanity produced. Most people think or assume or believe that the capitalist game is "the world". The normal world. Just how "people" are. Just how the world is. Yes, if human vices and pathologies are given free rein to rule, this is just how the world is. If human vices and pathologies are perceived as competitive advantages within a social Darwinist society, then people will "try" to become heartless psychopaths in order to "succeed".
So we get what Andrzej ... obaczewski, in his book, Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil, called "secondary psychopaths" who emulate the highly successful primary psychopaths in order to be accepted and be promoted within psychopath-run organizations such as America's "full spectrum dominance" Imperial State. A profit-seeking bank or business corporation that seeks to serve only its own interest without regard to its effects on the planet or anybody else, is psychopathic by definition. Insofar as banking and the global economy are populated by profit-seeking corporations whose managers must act to maximize corporate profits and shareholder value; and insofar as governments serve corporate and financial rather than human interests; the world is being operated by psychopathic motives.
When we used to have a "culture" we had at least a small voice of Christian morality to counter the vicious logic of market economy. But now even that small voice has been tortured to make it squawk the prosperity gospel in support of the vicious logic. Corporate capitalism now bestrides the narrow world like a snorting equine colossus, ridden by a giant banker who conjures and pours out the intoxicating elixir of money. The victor. The conqueror of minds and hearts and bodies and souls of men.
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