Saturday, February 23, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
frustrated with isms
I just updated the theme because it hurts my eyes. but the reason Im typing this out is because my brain is spinning in circles.
I cant tell who draws forth more ire from my neurons, the hippies with their liberal philosophical bullshit without any sense of reality, or the capitalists with their indoctrinated philosophical bullshit without any sense of reality.
In the past Ive repeatedly referred to two simplified assumptions most people agree to without realizing the logical failing, namely that We want everybody to start off life from a fair position with equal potential, and We want to ensure "more" for our own offspring, whether that more is easier paths, more options, greater flexibility isnt important, the point stands. If you can't see the logical fallacy when these two goals are presented side by side I will probably have difficulty understanding your perception of reality and thus communicating with you.
In my simplified mind, the hippies pursue the first goal and the capitalists pursue the second. The 'best answer' to try and appease the base desires of humans most likely lies with a not quite middle path, of constantly improving the world such that you ensure people move towards equal opportunity at birth, and ensure your offspring more opportunity by opening up the full spectrum, and both the hippies and the capitalists like to say that they are driving towards that goal. Unfortunately, this probably cannot be the case.
Not to say that two people going in opposite directions cannot be aiming for the same goal, Im not sure what the shape of our universe is, and depending on your orientation and spacial skills walking around a globe to meet at the other side is a potential way to meet in the middle. But we as a society have issues with this. When we approach issues from opposite sides we usually attempt to pull the other side towards us in the process. As a simplified metaphor Im envisioning people on two boats approaching an iceberg and crashing into it because they cant agree to split to the left and right simultaneously. Not that it is easy or even possible to go in opposite directions to reach the same goal in all cases, just throwing out the caveat before trashing the method that it would be possible in an ideal world for both philosophical camps to end up helping the world achieve humane goals without utilizing the same course.
But back to the point. I say probably because nobody actually does solid analysis of these things, but also because every situation is unique. Most people will admit that capitalism does a good job of allocating resources towards human desires, but most people intrinsically know that human desires on a micro scale do not align with human desires on the macro scale. On the same note that capitalism fails to allocate properly towards real goals beyond the day to day elements of staying alive and sane, most people intrinsically know that the hippie ideals will generally be ousted to the practicalities of interacting with the real world. This isnt to say that a hippie commune cannot exist or that a socialist nation cannot exist, but that competitively, their goals and path to attain happiness tend to be counter to the competitive human nature on a smaller scale, or more reasonably, in an attempt to give everybody the same resources opportunities or stuff they fail to satisfy the requirement that their equality beats the baseline opportunity of an outside system.
Getting a little rambly, had somewhere to go with this, and will continue my rant later, but GAH needed to vent on a friday afternoon.
I cant tell who draws forth more ire from my neurons, the hippies with their liberal philosophical bullshit without any sense of reality, or the capitalists with their indoctrinated philosophical bullshit without any sense of reality.
In the past Ive repeatedly referred to two simplified assumptions most people agree to without realizing the logical failing, namely that We want everybody to start off life from a fair position with equal potential, and We want to ensure "more" for our own offspring, whether that more is easier paths, more options, greater flexibility isnt important, the point stands. If you can't see the logical fallacy when these two goals are presented side by side I will probably have difficulty understanding your perception of reality and thus communicating with you.
In my simplified mind, the hippies pursue the first goal and the capitalists pursue the second. The 'best answer' to try and appease the base desires of humans most likely lies with a not quite middle path, of constantly improving the world such that you ensure people move towards equal opportunity at birth, and ensure your offspring more opportunity by opening up the full spectrum, and both the hippies and the capitalists like to say that they are driving towards that goal. Unfortunately, this probably cannot be the case.
Not to say that two people going in opposite directions cannot be aiming for the same goal, Im not sure what the shape of our universe is, and depending on your orientation and spacial skills walking around a globe to meet at the other side is a potential way to meet in the middle. But we as a society have issues with this. When we approach issues from opposite sides we usually attempt to pull the other side towards us in the process. As a simplified metaphor Im envisioning people on two boats approaching an iceberg and crashing into it because they cant agree to split to the left and right simultaneously. Not that it is easy or even possible to go in opposite directions to reach the same goal in all cases, just throwing out the caveat before trashing the method that it would be possible in an ideal world for both philosophical camps to end up helping the world achieve humane goals without utilizing the same course.
But back to the point. I say probably because nobody actually does solid analysis of these things, but also because every situation is unique. Most people will admit that capitalism does a good job of allocating resources towards human desires, but most people intrinsically know that human desires on a micro scale do not align with human desires on the macro scale. On the same note that capitalism fails to allocate properly towards real goals beyond the day to day elements of staying alive and sane, most people intrinsically know that the hippie ideals will generally be ousted to the practicalities of interacting with the real world. This isnt to say that a hippie commune cannot exist or that a socialist nation cannot exist, but that competitively, their goals and path to attain happiness tend to be counter to the competitive human nature on a smaller scale, or more reasonably, in an attempt to give everybody the same resources opportunities or stuff they fail to satisfy the requirement that their equality beats the baseline opportunity of an outside system.
Getting a little rambly, had somewhere to go with this, and will continue my rant later, but GAH needed to vent on a friday afternoon.
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