The Wolf Is At The Door

Wolves don’t require a lot of description, but the type I will focus on here do have some peculiarities.  In general, they are out for themselves to the exclusion of all consideration of others.  Or the impact they have on others.  All that matters is what they want. 

The variety that is prominent now is the hyper-capitalist.  They have taken the pursuit of wealth to heights that are truly amazing.  Someone like Bill Gates who is worth 80 billion dollars or so for example.  That figure is so large that it is inconceivable to most people.  If you put that money in a bank account making 2 percent interest you would get (at simple interest) 1.6 Billion dollars a year in income.  So when people talk about how much money his charity gives away, is it anything near that amount of money? 

But people like him, and Sam Walton, and others are celebrated by the sheep.  They think they are great.  They want to be like them.  So the utterly ruthless tactics that they use to get what they want are mostly ignored.  Or even admired. 

That is the peculiarity of this relationship.  The sheep want to be exploited by the wolves.  They somehow can’t see what is being done to them.  Is it just stupidity or something else?

There are other forms of wolf out there.  For instance the political wolves that inhabit our government.  They are the subjects of future diatribes.  That’s all for now though.