I pondered the use of “Greed” as a title for this short blog, partly because I think of our current age, say 1970 to the present, as a period of greed. (And there is certainly enough money floating around to encourage greed.)<\/p>\n
But, I settled on “Hunger” for a title. Greed is just too narrow a definition to cover all the hungers that drive human behavior. Greed is basically just about money and power, and while it is a major motivator for many people, (think drug cartels, our major investment firms, and perhaps, sadly, many of our politicians), beyond plain old greed comes the hunger for fame, for recognition, for love, for acceptance, for belonging, and for the meaning of life.<\/p>\n
I think I should add a yearning for and a hunger for “family” to the list. That helps explain the pull of gang life for many of our young people who grow up feral. At least it does for me.<\/p>\n
Some historians suggest we name the past fifty years the age secularism, but I suspect historians just like to name “ages” as a convenient way to package their product, just as I suspect greed has always been part of the human psychic. I also suspect the ancients were driven by the same hungers as we current human beings.<\/p>\n
I’m pretty sure I haven’t listed all the hungers we can point to as driver’s of human behavior, but I think it’s a good starter list. Maybe.<\/p>\n
Rod<\/p>\n
p.s. It’s hard to think we still have a world in which large numbers of people hunger simply for enough food to sustain life. But that’s another story for another time.<\/p>\n
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