"Comfort does not determine reality" that’s the core of all of it, right? A blunt, necessary look at the difference between how we wish the world worked and how power actually flows. Thanks for sharing your Philosophy Thoughts. :)
There is something I've learnt. The "ism's" of the world, for example, socialism, capitalism, even marshism, were most likely all made in the same boardroom. There's no such thing as Socialism, where we can clearly see that power is being circulated among the same families, the same hands, literally the same boardrooms. These terms were made to make mere people argue and believe themselves to be "woke" and on the right patch to "excape the matrix" Meanwhile, the actual needle movers have both Capitalism, Socialism, and any other ism, dancing to their tunes.
Interesting. I agree with all of this, simply because I've experienced it all in some form. There's a reason our elders always told us life wasn't fair. To think it is, is a good, morally upright way of thinking, but it just doesn't execute well in our current reality. We must learn the game and how to maneuver. Very good post 👍🏾
Some inequalities are safe for human beings to notice and even out with no unforeseeable consequences, but the temptation to attempt to enact a totalizing philosophy of equality ... not so much. We can win small victories for equality & fairness here and there as long as we understand that inequality and unfairness will always prevail in some form or other.
As the the Dread Pirate Wesley said to Buttercup, "Life *is* pain. Whoever tries to tell you different is selling something."
"Comfort does not determine reality" that’s the core of all of it, right? A blunt, necessary look at the difference between how we wish the world worked and how power actually flows. Thanks for sharing your Philosophy Thoughts. :)
Essentially, yes. People are far too accepting of comforting illusions over truth.
There is something I've learnt. The "ism's" of the world, for example, socialism, capitalism, even marshism, were most likely all made in the same boardroom. There's no such thing as Socialism, where we can clearly see that power is being circulated among the same families, the same hands, literally the same boardrooms. These terms were made to make mere people argue and believe themselves to be "woke" and on the right patch to "excape the matrix" Meanwhile, the actual needle movers have both Capitalism, Socialism, and any other ism, dancing to their tunes.
That is what controlled opposition is by definition.
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Interesting. I agree with all of this, simply because I've experienced it all in some form. There's a reason our elders always told us life wasn't fair. To think it is, is a good, morally upright way of thinking, but it just doesn't execute well in our current reality. We must learn the game and how to maneuver. Very good post 👍🏾
Some inequalities are safe for human beings to notice and even out with no unforeseeable consequences, but the temptation to attempt to enact a totalizing philosophy of equality ... not so much. We can win small victories for equality & fairness here and there as long as we understand that inequality and unfairness will always prevail in some form or other.
As the the Dread Pirate Wesley said to Buttercup, "Life *is* pain. Whoever tries to tell you different is selling something."