ok, we have followed just one aspect of the economic… the massive
income inequality that exists in America today and the economic
danger it poses… but it also poses political and historical and social
danger to every single person in America…
the fact is as I said, that money value lies in being the medium of
the economic growth of America… America has only so much money…
and if that money is locked up in the hands of 500 people in such
things as overseas tax havens and in houses, then how can the rest
of us gain wealth? the very fact that so much money is tied up
and out of touch causes us danger… we have only so much money
we have access to and that money is the fertilizer that
creates wealth and jobs…so the more money ties up with
the wealthy, the less for us to grow America…
this is not only an economic issue but a political issue
and a social issue… socially it is an issue because
we as a country have made economics such a prioity
in our political and economic and social life…
anything that damages the economic damages
America at large and this is because of the choices
and decisions we have made…a country that is economic
trouble as we are, is a country that socially becomes
discontented and unhappy… we are an unhappy people,
we are a discontented people because we are not where
we want to be and that is because of the massive
income inequality due to the great amount of wealth that
is unavailable to us for us to achieve what we need to achieve
both personally and collectivly…
you want a stronger, more alive, a restored America?
then you want to end or lessen the income inequality that exists
in america and that takes political will…
but we face severe opposition because of people’s faith in
the ism of capitalism… in other words, we face ruin because
people cannot escape the myths and habits and prejudices
and superstitions of their youth…they believe in the myth
of capitalism to the point of damaging America with the possibility
of destroying America… but that is less important then keeping
and maintaining their myths and habits and prejudices and superstition
of capitalism… they would rather have America fail then disturb or
challenge their myths and habits of capitalism…
now some might claim, as they usually claim when their faith is challenged,
that I hate America…not at all, in fact, I appreciate and understand
America far more then these haters… I am holding firm to the
underlying values that makes America, America… which means this…
as a philosopher, I don’t work with facts unless they support or oppose
values… for it is values that philosophers work with…
what values are worth having and what values are not…
what values are worth living for and worth dying for?
if modern America is not holding values that truly are worth
living for, worth dying for, what is the point of being an American?
so, I attack the current political and economic and social
conditions that exist today in America in hopes of creating
a country that hold values that is worth our lives and
our support and is worth dying for… I am willing to dump
our current system of the political and economic… to create
a country that holds values that is worth living for and worth
dying for and today, in our America… we don’t hold values
that is worth living for and worth dying for…
our values, our current values are of the lower base of human
nature… we hold values of greed and anger and hate and
intolerance… those aren’t values worth living for or worth
dying for…those values of ignorance are values of IQ45 and
his followers… and I don’t and won’t support values that are
the base animal values… I support values of hope and justice
and love and tolerance because those are the values worth
living for and worth dying for…
and it is this understanding of values that I critique America today…and
I attack capitalism and attack the buying and selling of America and its
politicians and I attack the lower values that currently rule America today…
if we hold to the lower values of hate and fear and anger and lust and
greed and all the other lower values, this is not a America worth living
for, worth dying for…
we must hold our values to make a country great… it isn’t a country
that make values great, it is the values of the country that make it great…
so this is how we connect the political and the economic and the social
and the historical and the philosophical… by understanding the values
that a country hold in terms of… in regards to its political and economic
and social and historical and philosophical…instead of thinking about
our GDP, Gross domestic products… think of the values that we want
to create and then, and then think about our GDP… decide on our values
we wish to proclaim and act upon and then create our actions that
we need to achieve, to achieve those values…
values before actions… because the values decided upon should
create the actions we must take… the values determine the actions,
not the actions deciding the values as we have it now…
what values are important? justice is one such important value
and so with the value of justice in mind, we can create actions, laws
that accept and promote the value of justice… and what is justice?
equality before the law…equality is the value of justice…
so without equality, we cannot have justice and so we must act
and create laws that promote equality…by holding to the values,
we can create the laws and actions needed to hold to those values…
and that is the problem with America today, it acts without any regards
to the values those actions either uphold or deny…
we hold to actions that promote a phony and false and dangerous
course…
and example of this… the justification of torture in America…
we allow torture to, allegedly, protect us… to keep us safe…
so we have the value of security and it is the wrong value in this
time and place…we must hold to justice and equality and freedom
before safety and security… and thus we must deny and forbid
torture and those who promote torture… the act of torture
damages us far more then the protection and safety and security
we may or may not have by the act of torture… torture
has never been shown to or proven to protect us or make us
more secure or have an increase in the security of our daily lives…
but, but justice and equality and freedom do increase the safety
and security and does protect us far more then actions like torture…
the values of justice and equality and freedom protect us far
more then the values of security and safety…
the values should decide the actions… and the values
we should be answering to are justice and equality and freedom…
and the values we should be leery of are the values of
instincts and the values of the lower human values like
security and safety…and hate and anger and greed
and fear… and security and safety are all about fear and hate values,
the instinctual values… values we have in common with the animals…
and we must reject those lower values of the animals…
we must hold to and honor the human values we have… hope,
love, charity, peace, justice, equality…
so what values do you hold and why?
Kropotkin