Doodledog
Another excellent post, Dickens. You should be a political columnist.
Thank you Doodlydoggie 
To be scrupulously honest, I'm using soundbites and deliberately provocative language - and we can all do that.
I couldn't be a columnist of any description because when it comes to deep analysis - the kind of analysis that indicates you know what you are talking about - I lack!
Although I do read, look at facts, figures, statistics, etc, I operate mostly on instinct and emotion.
My instinct tells me that greed will ultimately destroy the planet and the people on it; that selfish individualism might allow you to shine for a few sunny hours after which you will become a victim of its philosophy (as Ayn Rand ultimately did when her and her husband's medical bills racked up in old age); and that society functions best when it co-operates.
And then my emotion gets the better of me and I explode with rage at the stupidity, arrogance, narcissism and utter deviousness of those who would willingly destroy everything that makes our short lives bearable, productive and happy (ish). I'm with John Donne. He was a Christian, I am an atheist, nevertheless I uphold with him that:
No man is an island, entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
I read Hemingway's novel, For Whom The Bell Tolls, at a very young age, and its imagery and the poem have stayed with me ever since.
