corporate_hustlers unhinged 'our corporate hustlers are direct descendants of the whalers and sealers, of butchers such as george armstrong custer, of the gold speculators and railroad magnates who seized indian land, killed off its inhabitants, and wiped out the buffalo herds, of the oil and mineral companies that went abroad to exploit - under the protection of the american military - the resources of others. these hustlers carry out their demented wars and plundering throughout the middle east, polluting the seas and water systems, fouling the air and soil, and gambling with commodity futures while the poor starve. the book of revelation defines this single-minded drive for profit as service to the 'beast.' technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. all aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified -beauty, truth, love, grief, the search for meaning, and the struggle with our own mortality - are ignored and ridiculed.' - chris hedges 171207 what's it to you? who go blather from