RE: A critique on modern ideologies (Communism/Socialism/Capitalism)
I sure would like just one year to be proven that there was not some war occurring. I couldn't find one year free of war in and 2500 year survey. Making the following Quote from your post bogus.
"This is how society stopped organizing around a political, military and religious hierarchy, to move to an organizational model based solely on productive factors."
In truth Capitalism has actually as a matter of fact never existed either. It is a lot like the concept of infinity. There is no place in history where someone has not claimed control, making the phrase "Free Market" one of those useless phrases that actually can be shown to have never existed.
Centralized control is the heart and soul of Feudalism. Centralized control can be shown to have existed all through history. People need to admit what the truth is and plan based on the truth. Otherwise your sweat equity doesn't produce anything of value to the laborer.
Nice thought porvoking post @vieira .
Indeed, but the fact that there has not been a free market in its purest and highest terms, does not mean that the rest of society does not revolve around economic issues, note that in past centuries, the rulers were military, political, or religious, or usually a union of the three in the monarch. In the past it was not possible, practical, or acceptable that a simple entrepreneur like Donald Trump could manage to govern a nation, much less if that nation is the first power in the world; the France that once ruled Louis XIV and Napoleon, today is ruled by an economist. Today's society revolves around the economy. People argue if a rise or fall in taxes is beneficial from a purely utilitarian and economic point of view, morality is relegated, the economy is the central issue.
Greetings, and thanks for your observation!
@commonlaw, I had and have the same thoughts on wars you do. Though I would like to add some things.
There is also no place in history where someone somewhere has not experienced freedom either. Places were thriving in time and space in the same way other places and people were suffering.
Take your family history for example?
My grand parents and parents suffered from war. I myself "profited" from it. The years after the second world war were years of rebuilding, re-newing and re-creating. Governments made new contracts with other governments and payed for some of the damages. Not only in money, also in respecting the history of those who went through the war.
I am 48 years old and I never suffered hunger, thirst, physical punishment through warlords and their helpers. I always had shelter and safety. I am not rich, not even wealthy.
After war, Germany built one of the most successful social security systems one can imagine.
Actually, the Germans unlearned to appreciate this. I observe this during the years I started to work as a social worker. The most unappreciative people are the natives I would say.
We are having full functioning streets, auditoriums, libraries, theaters, public places, shops, you name it.
But what a government and what companies feel not obliged to do is to provide us with ethics and morals as this exactly was something people willingly dropped as spiritual maturation should not come from authorities. Nevertheless, some form of accepted authority should indeed provide people with ethics. If it's not the government (only managing money but not attaching morals to the management) and not the celestial institutions the one and only moral agent left is the individual.
From what I see here is that many of my own folks really get hooked to complaining about almost everything.
The accomplishment of having divided the powers is often celebrated as success. But when the power itself is gone, what exactly will fill the gap?
So I turned towards studying Buddhism and the ethical history of religions and related topics. I must educate myself. This is time consuming but worth it.
In this highly individualized times one is challenged to become ones own agent. But preferably not being and feeling alone with that task.
That's also, why we are here, right?