ENLARGE THE EQUATIONS

Enlarge the equation.
Could this be the slogan which we on the political/economic left — Democrats, democrats, liberals, progressives, racial justice-seekers and Greens — need pretty badly? Something that says what needs to be said in a brief, understandable and memorable way?
I thought of it today in what might be considered and interesting context: the cost of keeping a henhouse, including the raising up of altered male chicks to be capons instead of having them horribly ground up the way the great poultry houses do, versus the cost of just buying eggs and poultry at the markets. Obviously, it will cost more money to build a henhouse and maintain poultry. But on the other hand, I might contribute something to local food sufficiency and I’d be giving at least some life to the male chicks who would otherwise be destined for a quick and horrible end.
And then it occurred to me that enlarging the equation was what I was doing in my head. And then my mind took another jump as I asked myself, isn’t this what we need to do across the board? Enlarge the equations of profit and loss? Include as many others, human, animal and even plants, in the gain/loss equation? Isn’t that why, at least until 1980, we didn’t grind the seed-grains?
Don’t we need to enlarge the equation so that we act to make sure every child is cared for and has at least an education which will enable them to keep on learning through their lives, and more, wanting to keep on learning thus? Sarah Palin is the personification of those who don’t want to learn further; need I say more?
Don’t we need to enlarge the equation so that we can…