To be fair some are born with it. Amorality is a sufficient - but not necessary - condition for wealth. Which is why I think it is a ritual or societally ritualised culture/act as opposed to an inherent evil within the individual. The evil of the bourgeoisie seems to me to be a group evil, as opposed to an individual one.
I will not fear death if, in that death, I have acheived something, having furthered the revolutionary cause, having brought the world closer to the triumph of communism. Had I, by the time of that death, touched the face of the Earth and changed it. A death that follows a life filled with meaning, I will not fear. Yet to die without having made a mark, without having changed anything, to die forgotten, unremembered… that death is a death I will fear. So, comrade, such thoughts are not ‘LARPY’ - they are the essence of a revolutionary mind; they are the thoughts that can make real, meaningful change; they are the thoughts of one who is truly human: nothing more, and nothing less.
The sky will always shine blue and the earth
Will endure long and flourish in Spring.
But you, mankind, how long will you live?
From The Drinking Song of the Sorrows of the Earth.
It is a piece of Chinese poetry by Li T’ai-po and the German translation was used as the libretto for the first movement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
That has got to be satire… right?
The fact I an now struggling to tell the difference between satire and reality says very little about the satire, and a lot about reality.