if we understand the above post, then we can come
to the same conclusion that Rousseau came to, that
man is born free and innocent… but the message from
society was that we are born guilty and in bondage…
society then continues to carry out that message with
phony and false myths and habits and prejudices and superstitions like
to survive, we must compete and defeat our fellow man…
there is only competition between man, not cooperation…
if you want your piece of the pie, you must fight for it or die…
but the truth is this… the pie is big enough to support everyone…
we don’t need to compete for our piece of the pie because it
is big enough… but because of income inequality, where
500 people have the same wealth has half the world’s population…
3.5 BILLION people…how is that justified by the wealthy is
simply by more myths and prejudices, the Ayn Rand superstitions that
the wealthy deserve their wealth by virture of their superority
and their creating more wealth then others…as if the creation of wealth
is the basis of what a human being is… that all our possibilities are
in the creation of wealth…and not in being a better human being or in
finding new means of becoming…or in the act of simple reflection of who
we are…
man is good but because society is about the creation of wealth and
the search for profit to make the 1% even wealthier, that creates
the new false message that we exist because we are consumers
and producers… we exist to consume and we exist to create wealth,
not for ourselves mind you, but for those who own the means of production…
we don’t exist just to be ourselves… we exist to make a contribution
to society, I.E. to create profits for the 1%…
WE ARE A MEANS TO AN END… and that end is profits…
and we are expendable assets that have value only as long
as we create profits and once we no longer create profits,
we are tossed aside like yesterday’s garbage…that is the modern
value of man… profit creating…
in some ways, this is worse then the old fashion idea that
we are born of original sin and thus guilty… because at least,
here we can be saved if we confess our sins and we can be saved…
whereas if we have value only as the creators of profit, there isn’t
a chance of redemption, of being saved… because how does one get
saved in a world of profit? by only having money and those few,
those lucky few, the 1%… they are saved… the rest is dammed…
when the only value that is respected is money, then everything
gets judged by money… if all you have is a hammer, then everything
looks like a nail…there is no other values…
and so one is judge by money… not by deeds or idea’s or
wisdom, but by money… and those without money
are judge unworthy, without value, having no point or purpose…
society by valuing money over all other values, creates
the message that without money, you have no value…
that you have no point or purpose…
have you ever wonder why life seems to be so cheap?
because society has deemed life to be cheap… in its search for
profits, life has been deem of less value then profits, life has less
value then money… if you want life to have value, to have meaning,
then you must place life above money, above profits…
but this will not happen because to do so will reduce the
worth of the 1% and they own the media and the state and
the church and so they will continue to push the narrative of
the 1%…that the only value in life is profits… everything else
is replaceable, expendable, disposable including people…
you want to know why we are so fucked up?
because the message of the 1% devalues life to being
replaceable, expendable, disposable…
profits above people devalues people…
and that is the message of society today…
Kropotkin