July 6, 2009 Ciudad de Panama
The city is noisy as most cities are, morning brings a steady flow of traffic past the window and the sun just keeps getting hotter, we are practically equatorial. Panama, Polonia, Estadas Unidos, we live in a car driven world.
There's a certain hum to the passing of automobiles that seems to imply money: the passage of cars is money. Being spent, being made, the earth being transformed, the entire industrial military complex is audible in that seemingly simple flow of money; traffic.
Mix automotives with construction and you have civilization. Construction with computers and air conditioning and you have the 21st century. Add a little business suave, space exploration , information technology and a planet with 2/3 of the populace living at or below the base of the capitalist economy and our world starts to take shape. The truth is though, the capitalist system is not based upon people as much as we would like to think it is. There exists no grand conspiracy to capture all of humanity in a giant pyramid scheme (at least not one all encompassing scheme). Our mode of life depends mostly on the abundant riches of the planet itself. We are the planet's children and we have hacked our life out of the flesh and pulled our wealth from metal ore, the river's clay, and the ocean's bounty.
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