<blockquote>"...
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes cynically. He points out that Americans have killed about 120,000 of their fellow Americans since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- nearly 25 times the number of Americans killed to date in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More and more experts attribute the rise in crime in recent months to the dire state of the economy. "I've never seen such a large number (of killings) over such a short period of time involving so many victims," Jack Levin, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, told the
Washington Post."
- Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart,
Crisis Plunges US Middle Class into Poverty, 04/23/2009</blockquote>
It is a global
social crisis of meaning. What does it mean to be human?
J.
<blockquote>'
The “productive forces” are not material.
Production is a spiritual, intellectual, and ideological phenomenon. ...
What distinguishes our conditions from those of our ancestors who lived one thousand or twenty thousand years ago is not something material, but something spiritual. The material changes are the outcome of the spiritual changes.'
- Ludwig von Mises,
Human Action</blockquote>