- gluttony (the obesity epidemic)
- usury (Wall Street/Banks)
- avarice/greed (Wall Street, Corporate Tax Evaders, Congress)
- thieves (Wall Street, Congress, War Profiteers)
- hypocrites (Democrats, Republicans, Politicians, the Media and probably most people, myself included)
- fraudulent counselors (Wall Street, the ratings agencies, Fox News/MSNBC/Network News/Pharma Commercials)
- sowers of scandal and schism (Fox News, MSNBC, network news in general, the compromised media)
- Falsifiers (Congress, Wall Street, Politicians) etc.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Dante's Inferno, Corporate Edition
I'm reading THE INFERNO (Dante Alighieri), which is Dante's (the Pilgrim Dante, not the Poet) tour of the nine circles of hell, lead by the poet Virgil. Reading it now, with all the B.S. going on in our country, I can imagine some of the well-healed criminals from today spending eternity in some of these places. The book describes sins and the punishment for those sins:
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- dan
- I am the author of 5 books: Android Down, Firewood for Cannibals, The Cubicles of Madness, Robot Stories, and most recently, Various Meats and Cheeses. I live and write in Michigan. My website is at danmanning.com
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