… is the belief in eternity. It is a business expression of the desire to live forever = of fear of death. A total lack of ecological and systemic perspective, a lack of a most fundamental recognition that our universe is cyclical, with every-”thing” having a birth, maturation and death.

The sacrifice of the body to the beauty, the covering up of old age, the denial of death in personal life translates into search for timeless values, pride in 200 year old corporations, cutthroat need to survive regardless of ecological and systemic damage (witness corporate scandals of Enron, Nortel, etc) in business life.

There is nothing noble about a 200 year old corporation that had to “re-invent” itself dozens of times, just like there is nothing noble about an 80 year old who has mutilated her body to look like a 20 year old.

In the organism, cells that grow without regard to the encompassing body are called cancer. Business that grows and is then unwilling to shrink and disappear is cancer.