The idea is to take Humanity out of Commerce... for a vareity of reasons, most of which involve profit and control, as always... and since everything is Commerce in their world, the idea is to take the Humanity out of Everything...
And if we are not Human, we are nothing... besides breathing machines that generate taxable revenue.
Nature is dangerous and foreign because it reminds us that we are just a part of what is going on, not just a one-species show...
By removing the human factor, transactions become sterilized - burnt clean of the bacterium of Responsibility. And not just at the cash register... the real disconnect comes when we don't know where, how, or by whom our items are made and we don't care.
We actively don't give a fuck because giving a fuck shows weakness - shows morality - shows Humanity.
I know, it's lame to talk about the slaves that make the shit we buy - or bought, rather...
We could talk about the buying power of the dollar in purely economic terms.. sterile terms.. and that's bad enough news..
But really Buying Power? We buy it for the big bastards all the time...
How do you think they got that way?
