In The Age of Extreme Capitalism, Goliath Destroys David. Every time

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readApr 28, 2023

It’s time to disabuse ourselves from fairy tales

Image of David, holding Goliath’s head via Wkimedia Commons

Like most folks of my generation, my childhood was characterized by reading bible stories.

The good Samaritan, the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, the fall of the wall of Jericho, the talking donkey, the children of Israel crossing of the red sea, the feeding of five thousand with five fish and two loaves of bread and the resurrection of Lazarus — brother of Mary and Martha were profoundly compelling tales, which rival William Shakespeare’s finest works.

And there was of course, David and Goliath.

The tale of how a young ruddy-faced youngster faced down a giant with a large army with a catapult is one which remains powerfully compelling today as the very first time it was printed and read in English.

And it is very easy to see why.

The notion that the impossible became possible, when David dared to take on Goliath is one that we have tried to reenact in so many ways in our modern existence.

When you think of some of the greatest upsets in politics, sports or disruptions in business —Muhammad Ali v George Foreman, Buster Douglas v Mike Tyson, Hilary Clinton v Donald Trump or ChatGPT v Google, they conjure up images of the Biblical…

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible