Capitalism

I appreciate family! They are always willing to challenge your ideas...to help you make them clear...even to pursue excellence. I specifically appreciate the way my brother Randy challenges. He asks a question...no better way to help somebody to rethink than to ask a question.

Funny thing...Randy sent me an e-mail entitled "your wrong" and then it said, "I don't think you know what you are talking about..." Now, this could have been in reference to a picture he posted on his blog yesterday that I commented on or it could be in reference to the blog I posted yesterday...I don't know which and I am obviously not waiting to find out. Either way he got me thinking about how unclear my latest post was for anybody except me.

So, here is my attempt to think deeper about why I posted the picture of the red guy shooting the blue guy...

I am not saying "NO" to capitalism with this picture. I am asking the question...what are we willing to do as capitalists in order to make money? Are we willing to deplete our oil resources to get where we are going faster...since, "time is money"? Are you willing to give up making art (food, music, theatre, products) the way you believe it ought to be made to make art for the sake of money and not its beauty? Are you willing to prepare food in mass quantities that is cheap, tastes good, but is ultimately bad for the human body just to make an extra buck (fast food chains)? The capitalist is willing to indirectly harm (in this picture directly kill) his customer in order to make the money he worked so hard for by making a product people would buy. This gets us into a whole other question of responsibility, but for now let's just look at the responsibility the capitalist has to running a business ethically even if it means sacrificing the higher profits.

I don't want to sacrifice the quality of my theatrical art so my bank account will grow. What about you...are you willing to sacrifice the quality of your art or your ethics to make a larger profit?