An Evening on the Fireside

An Evening on the Fireside with David 49

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog about capitalism versus Communism. This week, I'm adding a little bit to it. Here it is /

a classless society or not. They are capable of living in luxury, and most people will choose some manner of personal comfort. *Cough* Lord Acton *cough* Absolute power *cough*. .People who typically fight and are successful in gaining power are typically not sheep and angels.
Someone else mentioned about a stable country being able to produce a stable communism. I’ve got to call bushwashy on that. .Stability is driven from the lack of a power vacuum. So any change from a class system of capitalism to a classless communism to be to a façade. .Those in power wouldn’t give up power. A revolt wouldn’t happen in a stable country, so that’s the only way the transition could be made. Losing green pieces of paper doesn’t completely strip very powerful people of the affluence.

Also, if we strip the market of being able to determine the best course of action for our goods, then we have to give that power to a small group of people. I just don’t see how on extremely large scales this would be very effective. To some extent it is more viable in a country like China, but that is because they have a very homogenized population. That is not the case for the USA. Hell, we barely stay above anarchy through the use of states. Imagine if D.C. decided on a blanket decision on gay marriage. Look at the protesting and outrage that came from one state (California) banning it.
With as much ethnic, religious, and ideology diversity that exists, not letting the truest form of the people decide (the free market), I just don’t see how a society could thrive.
I think this is good for now.

This is an amendment to

Really, the reason why I chose this as this week’s Evening is because Guy 1 ended the conversation with something along the lines of Materialism is stripping us of our humanity..
To put it another way, Materialism causes an erosion of our humanity.

As sad as it may be, Our humanity leads to the effect of materialism.

This is a point I never got to steer the conversation to this direction, but I will close the week out with a short comment on it.

What is our humanity? I would imagine it is what separates humans from animals. Typically this is known as free will. Hmm, where was I going to go with this?

Meh, it’s getting too late. Basically, materialism is exclusively human, thus an aspect of humanity, not a dissolver of it.

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An Evening on the Fireside

An Evening on the Fireside with David 47

This is going to be a relatively short Evening on the Fireside. There was a bit of a conversation going on a week or so ago about communism versus capitalism, or should I say communalism versus free marketierism.

The core conversation between the two who started it was moreso focused on human nature and rather a supporting you brothers and sisters in humanity is better than simply letting every person strive on their own. Guy 1 said it was, Girl 2 said it wasn’t, Guy 3 jumped in and said communism is better on paper, capitalism is better economically (wide scale), and how the Federal Reserve is a communistic barrier put in the hands of the private sector. Or atleast that’s how it came across.

Girl 1 said capitalism and working for oneself was human nature, Guy 1 said that that was just because that’s the culture we, as Americans, have grown in, but it was NOT, in fact, human nature. He also pointed out that the communism seen in nations such as Russia, North Korea and whatnot, is not the true communism. This I cannot speak on.

Meh, my contributions to the conversations were mainly that communalism in a nation-wide scale was ineffective because human nature is bettering something, but that nation-wide brotherhood is far too abstract in their benefits. This is why small-scale communalism such as those seen on Kibbutz’s and Amish community, where everyone pulls together for the better of the groups, are successful. People can see the benefit of putting the group before the individual, so… they do it.

I mean, we talk trash about people behind their backs, when we are physically seeing the consequences of our actions, rather good or bad, it makes it real.

Of course, that’s not the only thing. A lot of it is, why should I work to support someone who isn’t? But that’s the obvious. Yes, I used that as a noun.

Also, whether you’re acting within the parameters of communism or capitalism, power is, always has been, and always will be a capitalist commodity, a good to be had. I won’t go into this at the moment.

Really, the reason why I chose this as this week’s Evening is because Guy 1 ended the conversation with something along the lines of Materialism is stripping us of our humanity..
To put it another way, Materialism causes an erosion of our humanity.

As sad as it may be, Our humanity leads to the effect of materialism.

This is a point I never got to steer the conversation to this direction, but I will close the week out with a short comment on it.

What is our humanity? I would imagine it is what separates humans from animals. Typically this is known as free will. Hmm, where was I going to go with this?

Meh, it’s getting too late. Basically, materialism is exclusively human, thus an aspect of humanity, not a dissolver of it.