A cornerstone of the Capitalism story is that profit is worth more than the moral decay and world destruction it causes. This is conveyed in Capitalism’s most important mantra, “If I don’t do it, someone else will.”

It begins simple enough with random periodic mistakes and oversights that bring in a little more cash. Slowly those moments of weakness begin to form a story designed to protect the ego.. As everything in the universe evolves, this story slowly becomes more efficient and effective at creating profit. And, the more profit the story creates, the more people become interested in it. Eventually, marketing departments and think tanks get involved and take the story’s evolution to an all new level.

Questionnaires and focus groups are used to gauge people’s thoughts and opinions, while media experiments are designed to measure people’s reactions: a crazy story released in the news just to monitor the ripples it creates. All with the intent of fine tuning the story to maximize profit,.. and control.

This is how we are seeing entire fields of scientific study and public interest being lost to sophistry. They are being folded into the one story of profit and control.