“It seems there exists a growing compulsion to use power merely to beget more power, money merely to beget more money, irrespective of the true cost to the nation's soul. And it is this sickness, a kind of moral blindness, commerce without conscience, which threatens to strike at the very soul of this nation.”
from An Ideal Husband movie.I don't usually watch period movies but the television got stuck to PBS channel that night. Not that its broken or anything just that for some reason I did not mind for it to stay there. Probably I may have been doing other stuff which I cant remember now. However the lines I've posted above stayed with me and compelled me to find out additional information with regards to that movie. The play was written in 1893 by Oscar Wilde. I have yet to read the actual play itself but according to Wikipedia, since its initial staging in 1895, Wilde has made additional changes to the play. The line above may or may not be an original line from the play. Regardless, the message it brings is so true to what is happening right now to the worlds economy. Have we been so greedy and selfish that we are now starting to feel the consequences of those action? Will economic uncertainty push equality and justice aside?
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