Depressed - The BBC, State of the World and Marx

So it is with some sadness that the reality of the situation confronts me. Humans we are intrinsically selfish and self serving. Remove some of the fierce structure of religion and deep seated moral training from childhood and we revert to type, we are fundamentally selfish. The BBC, employers of vast numbers of highly educated liberal and otherwise worthy types is also a centre for massive abuse of public money, where the acquisition of personal comfort and wealth has become an obsession.

They exploit every legal loophole to prevent the public from knowing the true extent of waste. Presenters, who are supposed to be defenders of democracy, have their snouts in the trough of tax payers money. They are one and the same of as the fat cats that sit atop the city banks plundering every last penny, overcharging customers exploiting their oligopoly status.

There is no god of that i truly believe, but is a godless valueless society able to function when the rich or those in a position to be self serving exploit the system so brazenly and extensively. When our most educated, those with access to perhaps the most liberal and broad ranging education in history are so self serving then is Richard Dawkins truly correct. We are a selfish animal and we need some common values and a necessary obligation of duty, perhaps we do need religion.

We have lost that obligation now, and our elite exploit it in every walk of life, in every position irrespective of background and education. The elite at the BBC are no better than the Eastern European mafia, or the city investment bosses, they are one and the same self serving homo sapiens. Those at the BBC may be able to justify it much more and feel they are serving the public by going to war zones, and some will be very brave and heroic, most though are simply after number one and exploiting the system for every last penny they can. The scale and ruthlessness are on a different scale to that of the Mafia but in one way it is far worse the scale of their mendacity, self denial and pomposity.

Mr Dawkins you should write a book titled the Selfish Ape as we truly are and Marx you are wrong as you fundamentally misjudged human nature. We are the naked, selfish ape, held together by the most fragile of means, by the force of our belief, religion and national structures. These are prone to crumble and break and we revert to our fundamentally selfish, self seeking nature and this happens in every environment, culture and country. There we are stripped naked. We are capable of amazing acts of sacrifice when there are strong bonds of loyalty, belief, and conviction, when these disappear we are not left with much and no amount of education seems to prevent our worst traits from dominating.