AVARICE / GREED
The Fear
" I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I don't care about clever I don't care about funny
I want loads of clothes and f***loads of diamonds
I heard people die while theyre trying to find them"
I don't care about clever I don't care about funny
I want loads of clothes and f***loads of diamonds
I heard people die while theyre trying to find them"
"I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear
And I'll be taken over by the fear
I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear
And I'll be taken over by the fear
Life's about film stars and less about mothers
It's all about fast cars and cussing each other
But it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic
And that's what makes my life so f***'in fantastic
It's all about fast cars and cussing each other
But it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic
And that's what makes my life so f***'in fantastic
And I am a weapon of massive consumption
And its not my fault it's how I'm programmed to function
I'll look at the sun and I'll look in the mirror
I'm on the right track yeah I'm on to a winner"
And its not my fault it's how I'm programmed to function
I'll look at the sun and I'll look in the mirror
I'm on the right track yeah I'm on to a winner"
Excerpts from The Fear sung by Lily Allen
The basis of over spending or over saving, certainly is fear. Having the stuff, or the overflowing investments, are a security blanket.
“When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
I would agree with that. It was seen in Rome, before the fall of the Empire, also the 1880s before the recession of the 1890s. Eerily that repeated one hundred years later. Before that, of course,,there was the Great Depression following on from the Stockmarket insanity of the 1920s.
In ancient times, the city of Troy was supposed to have been very wealthy, sitting as it did in a strategically good position to tax transport. When it's Greek enemies came to plunder, they killed or enslaved everyone.
The fall of Troy
Question, for we in the Western World, are the huge influx of cheap manufactured goods , surplus to our needs, flooding into our countries and killing off our manufacturing, also a Trojan horse? Are we being lulled as we and our governments get further and further into massive debt?
"The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul." Prophet Muhammed.
