Bandcamp News – New Mixtape Release; Seven Deadly Syns – Greed

This is 3 of 7 and is a mixtape series I’m doing the Seven Deadly Sins but Deadly Syns or synths same concepts just with music and a visual of course since I enjoy making them. This one is greed so expect synths that may leave you wanting more and are of a greedy rich nature it’s hard to explain this one but as always I did my best to make the music sound suit and are all my old tracks I made throughout the years and can no longer release as I have already released it on major platforms under different names. I was thinking like rich, wanting more, melodic, sounding good, needing something, waiting for something and impulsiveness but not the people with the condition but more rich and well which is no jealousy to them at all. I don’t think I have to explain this one but for the  benefit of the tape Greed is described as Greed (or avarice) is an insatiable desire for material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions); or social value, such as status, or power. Greed has been identified as undesirable throughout known human history because it creates behavioural conflict between personal and social goals.

Nature of greed

The initial motivation for (or purpose of) greed and actions associated with it may be the promotion of personal or family survival. It may at the same time be an intent to deny or obstruct competitors from potential means (for basic survival and comfort) or future opportunities; therefore being insidious or tyrannical and having a negative connotation. Alternatively, the purpose could be a defence or counteractive response to such obstructions being threatened by others. But regardless of purpose, greed intends to create an inequity of access or distribution to community wealth.

Modern economic thought frequently distinguishes greed from self-interest, even in its earliest works, and spends considerable effort distinguishing the line between the two. By the mid-19th century – affected by the phenomenological ideas of Hegel – economic and political thinkers began to define greed inherent to the structure of society as a negative and inhibitor to the development of societies. Keynes wrote, “The world is not so governed from above that private and social interest always coincide. It is not so managed here below that in practice they coincide.” Both views continue to pose fundamental questions in today’s economic thinking.

Weber posited that the spirit of capitalism integrated a philosophy of avarice coloured with utilitarianism. Weber also says that, according to Protestant ethics, “Wealth is thus bad ethically only in so far as it is a temptation to idleness and sinful enjoyment of life, and its acquisition is bad only when it is with the purpose of later living merrily and without care.”

As a secular psychological concept, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. The degree of ordinance is related to the inability to control the reformulation of “wants” once desired “needs” are eliminated. Erich Fromm described greed as “a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction”. It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may equally be applied to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else.

One individual consequence of greedy activity may be an inability to sustain any of the costs or burdens associated with that which has been or is being accumulated, leading to a backfire or destruction, whether of self or more generally. Other outcomes may include a degradation of social position, or exclusion from community protections. So, the level of “ordinance” of greed pertains to the amount of vanity, malice or burden associated with it.

Views of greed

In animals

Animal examples of greed in literary observations are frequently the attribution of human motivations to other species. The dog-in-the-manger or piggish behaviours are typical examples. Characterizations of the wolverine (whose scientific name (Gulo gulo) means “glutton”) remark both on its outsized appetite and its penchant for spoiling food remaining after it has gorged.

Ancient views

Ancient views of greed abound in nearly every culture. In Classical Greek thought; pleonexy (an unjust desire for tangible/intangible worth attaining to others) is discussed in the works of Plato and Aristotle. Pan-Hellenic disapprobation of greed is seen by the mythic punishment meted out to Tantalus, from whom ever-present food and water are eternally withheld. Late-Republican and Imperial politicians and historical writers blame the demise of the Roman Republic on greed for wealth and power, from Sallust and Plutarch to the Gracchi and Cicero. The Persian Empires had the three-headed Zoroastrian demon Aži Dahāka (representing unslaked desire) as a fixed part of their folklore. In the Sanskrit Dharmashastras, the “root of all immorality is Lobha (greed).” as stated in the Laws of Manu (7:49). In early China, both the Shai Jan Jing and the Zuo Zhuan texts count the greedy Taotie among the malevolent Four Perils besetting gods and men. North American Indian tales often cast bears as proponents of greed (considered a major threat in a communal society). Greed is also personified by the fox in early allegoric literature of many lands.

Greed (as a cultural quality) was often imputed as a racial pejorative by the ancient Greeks and Romans; as such it was used against Egyptians, Punics, or other Oriental peoples and generally to any enemies or people whose customs were considered strange. By the late Middle Ages, the insult was widely directed towards Jews.

In the Books of Moses, the commandments of the sole deity are written in the book of Exodus (20:2-17), and again in Deuteronomy (5:6-21); two of these particularly deal directly with greed, prohibiting theft and covetousness. These commandments are moral foundations of not only Judaism, but also of Christianity, Islam, Unitarian Universalism, and the Baháʼí Faith among others. The Quran advises do not to spend wastefully, indeed, the wasteful are brothers of the devils…, but it also says do not make your hand [as though] chained to your neck…” The Christian Gospels quote Jesus as saying, “”Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions”, and “For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”.

The colour of greed is yellow and the punishment in hell for committing a greedy act is boiled alive in boiling oil and has been around since the middle ages.