A Paleolithic Mindset: The 21st century is leaving the U.S. in the dust

  By Donald Archer -- OpEd News

  Oct. 20, 2006 -- Trapped like dinosaurs, our national political representatives and the interests who support them are mired in a Paleolithic mindset that is condemning us all to oblivion.

  This mindset equates intransigence with integrity, corporate interest with national interest, military might with security, and negotiation with weakness; and the delusion is making the world increasingly dangerous.

  These frozen individuals are so obsessed with, and blinded by, their twisted idea of how the world should be that they can't see how the world is -- how it works, or what it needs.

  In their skewed vision of entitlement, only the very wealthy -- those who have profited from the infrastructure that all of society has provided -- are entitled to healthcare, education, opportunity, and economic security; everyone else is simply entitled to the misery they find themselves in.

  This Paleolithic mindset sees all the world's resources as means of private profit, to be selfishly plundered in the moment rather than as a collective common to be shared judiciously for generations to come.

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