..thinking about the forces that would motivate a willingness to engage in commercial practices that any honest person can clearly see are responsible for wounding, perhaps fatally, the planet we inhabit
..and comparing other historic American practices, best characterized as sociopathic in nature and fueled by blind unreasoning greed
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..a few come to mind
..slavery
..tobacco sales
..unjust wars ala Iraq
All activities obviously injurious or potentially injurious to thousands/millions/billions of persons, but pursued in spite of the obvious antisocial aspect, in the interests of those few who would derive economic benefit from them
The common sociopathic elements of these practices is genetic to an identifiable mindset that is, to this day, widely distributed in the American body politic
..was looking for a term to apply to this particular form of social (mental?) illness
..I'm liking Repture
..drawing on several words whose meanings themselves convey a whiff of the trait described reptile, rapture, rupture, repugnant and of course the official vehicle of unmitigated greed, Republican..
..because invariably we find those who are imbued with, and the greatest defenders of repture, are republicans
..so I submit a new word to describe the observable sociopathic quality of greed driven antisocial behavior, repture
A total absence of altruism, conscience or any recognizable component of a humanitarian ethic as represented by most major religions including Christianity |
