Like most people, I am outraged at the criminal price increase inflicted on us by greedy oil companies. The only reason that this outrage is occurring is because oil company executives, in their drive for mammoth profits, have tremendous contempt for people. The great American educator and historian Eli Siegel, founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism, defined contempt as “the addition to self through the lessening of something else.” Contempt is the cause of all human cruelty, including jacking up the price of something that many people need.
Matthew D’Amico, East Rockaway