But Kropotkin, I have undertaking a “reevaluation of values” and
I truly know what I believe in…… I say the desire to have certainty
and knowing your place in the universe often overcomes any real
“reevaluation of values”…………one thinks they have “overcome” their
childhood indoctrinations but the reality is, you haven’t…….
one has simply pretended to “overcome” to maintain the pretense
of being an independent thinker…… the pride one has often overcomes
any real “reevaluation of values”………….
it is very hard to go against the established norms and standards
that exist in a society or a local area…………….
I am a liberal living in a very liberal area…
how can I be sure that I am truly a liberal living
out my values and I have a real and true
“reevaluation of values”?
I have changed my political values, my political standards
a couple of times………… that change tells me that I have engaged
in a “reevaluation of values” because I have overcome my childhood
indoctrinations… which are, politically, a very moderate democrat
worldview…whereas I today, have a very radical viewpoint, well,
radical given how conservative the U.S is today………….
I would welcome and engage in an overthrow of our current
economic system as it engages in the nihilism of devaluing
people in relation to money/profits……. money/profits are
valued over people and people’s values……… where money/profit
is given precedence over people and their values… and that
is nihilism…………… I have overcome my childhood indoctrinations
of the belief in capitalism…and I am coming to the belief that
money has destroyed democracy as we have been taught it and so,
democracy must be seriously changed or even destroyed to
be able to bring about real change as to the clause in the
Declaration of Independence which is,
“government of the people, for the people, by the people,”
we no longer have this, we have “government of the corporation,
for the corporation, by the corporation” and this change is by
the influence of money into our political system… and so, to make
effective change in our system of government, we must end
the influence of money and corporations in our government……
I truly believe in the statement, “government of the people, for the people,
by the people”…… and so I take that as one of my understanding, of my place
in the universe, my place in the line graph of who I am and where I exist
in terms of my place in the universe…………the statement of “government of the people”
…………… helps creates, in me, an worldview that I can draw upon to create
an understanding of who I am and what is my place in the universe………….
I have struggled to reached that understanding, that worldview, it came
about because I overcame my childhood indoctrinations, I overcame
by an “reevaluations of values”……………
the question of life is really a question of “what values do I believe in”?
so, what values do you believe in? and why?
Kropotkin