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This book seeks to show how our capitalist system is dependent on the promotion of the three Buddhist principles - 'Poisons' of Greed, Hatred and Ignorance: Greed for profit at any cost ; Hatred of foreign obstacles to profit ; and Ignorance of the link between Western corporations and Third World dictators.In this first book Free to be Human. David Edwards showed how powerful state and business interests distort our understanding of many political, ethical and ...
This is a book about freedom, and above all, about the idea that there is often no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been fully attained. While in the West few individuals today suffer physical restraint by the state, we are still constrained by powerful psychological chains, which are in many ways far more effective.Free to be Human shows how the same filter system distorts our understanding of many personal, ethical and ...