...it is ambition enough 'to be employed as an under-labourer in cleansing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.
John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Ambition (as a lubricant for capitalism) is a disease. It used to be considered as such before we all went collectively mad. Icarus was the symbol of ambition in olden times. Ambition signalled a hankering after the attention of others, the infantile search for flattery and recognition, the seeking of the attention of others. the thirst for popularity. The word itself derives from the Latin ambi (around) + ire (to go) and it suggests a 'going around' and 'doing the rounds' of business. This is our world today where everyone under the mandate of capitalism does the rounds, goes around, in order to earn money and investment. Our whole world under this confused economy is thus nothing more than the manifestation of ambition. Which is why this world will end with disease, because it started with it.
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