"I've known men who invoked the name of Jesus Christ in his diatribes against the war and who put rifles in the hands of private police to fired on the strikers in their own factories. I incoherent known men were indignant at the brutality of boxing and that, while collaborating on the adulteration of food each year kill more children than Herod killed. I have spoken in hotels and clubs, in homes, in first class carriages and the deck chairs big liners, with captains of industry, and am amazed at how little they had traveled in the world of the intellect. Moreover, I also discovered that their morality, in terms of business, was invalid. A gentleman delicate, aristocratic features, was a figurehead and a tool company that secretly robbed widows and orphans. A gentleman who collected fine editions and protected the literature, blackmailed a chief of the municipal machinery of black eyebrows and square jaw. The director of a newspaper that published advertisements of drugs and dared not publish the truth about them for fear of losing the benefits of such advertising, called me rascal and demagogue because I told him that his political economy was antiquated and its biology was contemporaneous with that of Pliny. "
Jack London
With slight changes in style and a few current examples, the diatribe of Jack London would be as valid today as it was in 1905. In description these great hypocrites, why not recognize the likes of finance ministers, after the crisis announced in late 2008, proposed to pour billions into the corrupt banking system and leave misery to hundreds of thousands of citizens "sobrehipotecados ? The global economic meltdown as a result of financial speculation has, as such, in late 2008, panic and generalized anxiety, in turn, have been used by financial and industrial powers to take a number of later measures have been impossible to take at least without a universal protest. In this climate of fear has taken decisions on privileges prosecutors, layoffs, evictions, relocations and closures, without remedying the root cause of the crisis, a sort of moral and ethical disorder that affects the very root of the capitalist system. Instead of considering the replacement of an outdated, corrupt, political and financial leaders have proposed to restore and strengthen the same system with measures that, eventually, will undoubtedly be futile if not disastrous.
How not to think of Bernard Madoff, for example, with her sweet smile, confessing how much he felt he stole fifty billion dollars? Faced with these characters, the reader should London to remember one of Charles Dickens, the bland Mr. Merdle of Little Dorrit, in whom all English society relies for its financial transactions and revealed at the end like a giant con. Only Mr. Merdle, unlike Madoff and all who come after, just feeling so embarrassed by what he has done to cut the neck with a razor.
fiction often requires more real-life morality.
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