Our economic system institutionalizes greed; our militarism institutionalizes aggression; the media institutionalizes delusion.

Our most problematic dukkha is due to our sense of a separate self, a dukkha usually experienced as a sense of lack.

"The mercy of the West is social revolution. The mercy of the East is insight into the basic self/void. We need both" (Gary Snyder)

Today the three poisons (greed, ill will, delusion) also function collectively: our economic system institutionalizes greed, our militarism is institutionalized ill will, and the media institutionalizes delusion.