Competition and greed aren’t solving the world’s problems
By Lethbridge Herald on June 4, 2025.
Editor,
Does anyone else feel there is too much violence and competition about money on television programs?
Solutions to problems seem mostly to be solved by shoot-outs, fist fights or violence. Is it the way television executives see our society? Now it seems to be the way the world sees America.
Television was sold to us as a great tool, like AI, to educate and entertain. It has become a method to sell us on a fantasy, a comfortable vision of ease and simplicity.
This fantasy has convinced too many of us that business can solve all of our problems. Canadians in the not so distant past accepted that we solved our problems ourselves in community.
Today we are encouraged to believe problems are solved by the experts, like economists. More and more we are encouraged to believe our problems all will be solved if we had a bigger economy, if we bought and sold more, and paid less taxes.
Yet I am convinced that bigger and more dangerous forest fires will not be eliminated by making more money. Fort McMurray was a town where lots of money was made and sloshed around, yet was almost consumed by a forest fire.
Can we work on understanding the real problems today, and how to solve them without fighting?
I believe we must soon make choices about the competition for what is left of our world, before it eliminates us.
Don Ryane
Lethbridge
12-11
first societies flourished as they embraced the natural world, nurtured it, and rightly knew themselves to be a part of the natural world.
western society treats nature as an ugly beast, to be dominated, crapped upon, raped and shorn, but only so long as such endeavour can return a “profit.” we created an economy based on fake wealth, self service, greed, and ego. most of things we everyday marvel about have nothing to do with the natural world, nor with need, but are rooted in want and scarcity. most vexing is that most of our wants are ruining the planet.