Priorities:

• Ease.
• Comfort.
• Quantity.
• Bureaucracy.
• Unfounded Belief.
• Convention - how we've always done things.
• Certainty.
• Division.
• Wealth and Power - proximity to and/or a delusion of.

Sacrificed:

• Learning.
• Discovery.
• Synergy.
• Improvement.
• Accountability.
• Diligence - constant and earnest effort.
• Progress.
• Reality.
• Beauty.
• Autonomy.
• Truth.
• Empathy.
• Wisdom.
• Compassion.
• Justice.

I am distressed. For perhaps 250 years and definitely in my lifetime (nearly 7 decades), it feels (to me) like we have evolved from wealth and power as oppressors to wealth and power as illusionists working to make us believe we are no longer oppressed; that we are entitled and that we deserve ease and comfort; a sleight of hand to beguile, to disarm, to maintain.