Capitalistic society,
which offers its members numerous comforts and pleasures, risks creating people
lacking in moral standards.
The goals of
capitalism are not to sell products that are really needed by people, but for
selling purposes only. Its goals are only to make a profit and gain more money
in order to enlarge its capital and property.
The results are only
translated into monetary value.
A society like this
produces a type of character who is called by Plato, 'The Democratic Man'.
Plato described this man more than 2,000 years ago and he is very like the face
of man living in our days, in the Millennium Generation.
Plato on the Democratic Man:
"He lives along
day by day, gratifying the desires that occur to him, at one time drinking and
listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing; now practicing
gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes
spending his time as though he were occupied with philosophy. Often he
engages in politics and, jumping up, says and does whatever chances to
come to him; and if he ever admires any soldiers, he turns in that direction;
and if it’s money-makers, in that one. And there is neither order nor
necessity in his life, but calling this life sweet, free, and blessed he
follows it throughout." (Plato from The Republic)
We need a change in
our society, which creates people with moral standards, people with order or
necessity in their life, fill free, and blessed by meaningful life.
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