Nothing to Lose But Chains

Hank George, FALU, CLU, FLMI
Best's Review• February 2006

In the mid-19th century, two disgruntled German economists wrestled with provocative questions about the prevailing human condition. They ranted about chains of humankind’s own making and the unrealized potential of Earth’s most evolved species.

In a contemporary context, their insights ring true—that context being the current state of the life and health underwriting “profession” and self-imposed chains that tether its practitioners.

This underwriter takes no joy in putting profession in quotation marks. Nevertheless,those who relentlessly turn their collective backs on reality, huddling in a self-deluding netherworld of coulda and shoulda, bring this sorry judgment upon themselves.