yeah, but as intelligent beings, we have will, and we can change our behaviours over time. the catch all excuse "it is human nature" has perpetuated ages of atrocities and holocausts, simply because people refuse to be willful, thinking beings.
Look at the society of cattle in america today. oblivious to the crimes against humanity that are being committed, simply out of a refusal to take an iota of responsibility.
No, please don't say "human nature" because i havent committed any war crimes lately, and i am human.
Sorry to bring this up now, but I've learned quite a bit over the last few months, and this popped up in my list of subscribed threads. I wasn't suggesting that it's human nature to be like people are today. I was referring specifically to Americans, and only the more recent breed of Americans. The Americans of 250 years ago could have easily handled anarchy.
I think it is human nature to be kind, compassionate, and to care for your fellow man. That's really the only way we could have survived this long. We got through ice ages, droughts, famines, diseases, and worse. We have only two things going for us, and that's intelligence, and cooperation. One guy alone is not going to live very long out in the wildneress. A group of idiots out in the wilderness are not going to live very long either. The only reason we have survived as a species is because, at least up until recently, we were multi-skilled, highly intelligent tool-using communal animals. We cared for each other, and we weren't afraid to try to help one another. That was human nature for all of natural human history (i.e. up until farming and the rise of civilization and the creation of class structures).
What we have in modern times is now a
subversion of human nature. People are reeducated, taught that it's not ok to help someone who is getting beaten to death, that you should call the police. And if it's the police who are beating someone to death, you should look away and take any cameras with you. We're taught that sharing is communism, and is therefore evil. We're taught that it's unnecessary, homeless people in the street are homeless because, obviously, they want to be homeless. We have no obligations to anyone or anything, and any suggestion otherwise is fascist.
This is a capitalist/authoritarian defense mechanism, like an economic form of mutually assured destruction. Without the capitalists and their cronies in office, the society they have left us would implode. People don't know how to live without them, they've lost that core component of humanity that kept us alive through so much hardship. If you take the cronies out of office they can just put new ones in. If you get rid of the current capitalists new ones will take their places. But that's all moot, because, apart from a revolution you can't get rid of the current cronies or capitalists. You can't have a revolution either, because they control the media. No one would support it when all the propaganda opposes it, and everyone knows that the removal of their system would result in our society imploding, and even if a revolution suceeds, the massive failure would result in us going back to capitalism almost immediately. Most people just confuse our system with all of humanity, which is why you probably thought I was referring to society as a whole, like most people do.
The problem is that you can't go straight to anarchy. You need an intermediate step to get (some) people ready (obviously it's not a cookie cutter solution, different approaches are required for different societies). You need a new authoritarian power structure. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Chavez and Castro and many others have already figured this out. Socialism is the preparation step, to destroy all the crap that capitalists have spewed around. The important part, though, is that the more authoritarian power-structure must be subjected to greater checks and controls from the people, like in Venezuela. The people must be able to vote politicians out of power. Politicians shouldn't need to whore themselves out to corporations to get into power. Politicians who do whore themselves out to corporations should be removed from power. If these aren't followed, the constitution must unequivocally guarantee the right of the people to rebel, must make it illegal for the government to use its influence to prevent legitimate revolution, and must provide everything necessary to guarantee that the people can rebel without getting massacred or scared away. If those controls are in place, then it will be safe for the government to start correcting the problems which have lead to people being irresponsible morons. A generation or two later, and it would be time for anarchy. It's a risky detour from the goal, but it's essential to make the progression from capitalism.
) will be brought about by countries like these, with their social governments.
