Far too often these days we honor greed more than generosity, and make heroes of the greediest among us -- and then wrap that love of greed in religion ("god helps those who help themselves"). We look down on those in our society who have the least, ignoring the fact that they may have been born with less and offered less opportunity. And we tell them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, while denying them the boots (opportunity) to do that with. We live in the richest nation that has ever existed, but make excuses instead of eliminating poverty. We are a very sick society, but instead of healing ourselves we celebrate our sickness -- our greed and heartlessness. Could there possibly be any excuse for this?
