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I recently downloaded Windows Live Writer, so I am trying to post this first entry from that application. I find that technological learning curves help me evolve as a human being. Therefore, I appreciate the great minds who devise these toys for the mind and its expression.

I do not like the greed which eventually captures these devices for its purposes of accumulating more and more monetary wealth. This is a flaw of capitalism. In capitalism, as we know it in the US, greed often motivates innovation.

Innovation motivated by greed inevitably falls short of the mark as a boon to mankind. Exploitation, just as inevitable, follows this form of innovation. The wonderfully ingenious and mad Edison mastered artificial light and developed the groundwork for the electric utilities of today, which have left a wide swath of destruction of the environment and a stifling of true innovation in their wake.

In Buddhist thought, the practitioner is encouraged through mindfulness to look at all aspects of human actions, whether beneficial, destructive or ineffectual.

This new application, while it delights me in the present, may also lead to the easier composition of the most vile propaganda in the wrong hands. Or it may lead to the most inane dribble about Barbie doll collections or celebrities. Or it may lead to the publication of words about Buddhism that succeed to reach one open mind.