Restoring respect and dignity (#1010)

So many people feel a loss of power in their lives. It is because they cannot control their futures due to a broken economic and political system. Where less and less merit is held in esteem and cronyism is valued higher. The free flow of anything depends on opportunity for all, not just for some. Yet we are not feeling the free flow because it is more illusion than fact. Just saying the words greed and selfishness, does not portray the damage these two forms of egoism do to our society. I am all for motivation and improving one's own lot in life but not at the expense of violating honorable principles like fairness, equality and justice. When we realize just how harmful greed and selfishness are we then can see how we allow these chosen behaviors to permeate throughout our thought processes and actions. We are all guilty of fomenting their perpetual continuance in many ways and forms. To our detriment, despite any short term gain that may be realized. I am delving into this subject because I see a need for restoring self respect and dignity to a massive amount of people who realistically feel a loss of their hope for a better future for themselves and their offspring. We are at a crossroads in our society, do we allow for a mindset of hard brutish philosophies to define what it is to be a human or do we reassert the best of human principles we have cultivated over our time in existence? I know it is the latter. Evolving as a species required us to learn from our mistakes and discard those mistakes as illogical. Why would we go backwards as a society and again try philosophies that hinder individual growth and communal advancement? Other than out of some mistaken misguided reasoning, which is still wrong, there can be no positive explanation. This really is simple, all of us have value and need the opportunities to express that truism.