Okay, okay --

the new thing is to blame corporations for their unabashed pursuit of wealth.

Wealth is for what we strive,

rather, for what Americans should stive.

Business is a rotten operation.

As profound and positive a venture

buying, selling, and funding may be,

control and money are the motivators.

The difference between those ideas that materialize

and those that do not

are the ethics by which the company is run.

If business is conducted with no regard for human circumstance and prosperity;

if gain is made on the behalf of lives lost or harmed;

if consumers must be lured to the product by slick, non-specific advertizing,

then the company has no ethics.

Ethics are simple --

no need for a college course:

Die for your cause.

Seriously, can one sell a produce that one would not use oneself?

The degree to which one is okay to push an idea in which she doesn't believe is directly proportionate to her ethics.

The further away she is from the truth of her own sense, the more corrupt she likely is.

And, funny, she may not even know it or care.

Is it okay to harm,

as if humorous

to decide fates by tactile explorations?

Is the sensation of money more comforable

than love, a hug from a child, pride, passion, freedom to exist without shame

or doubt?

Can a human being ride a waterslide down a flight of concrete steps,

onto a grassy hill that ends in a big splash?

To follow the path of design

is to know what is meant to be done, without knowing it really.

So,

blame seems the flavor of today

and manipulation by corporations;

but what really survives without tarnish,

is for what human hearts pause

and ponder.

CFHennessey 081410

[Next time, I'll address the institution of government...]