But Kropotkin, it sound like you are saying abandon all ism’s and
ideologies… say it ain’t so, Joe?
But it is true… the next step along this journey is to eliminate ism’s
and ideologies along with our childhood indoctrinations of myths, prejudice,
habits and superstitions……… but Kropotkin, how are we to know what to do?
I say unto you, you already know what to do… the rules of life which are
basis of our knowing what to do, we already know… you just don’t know
you know them……… for example, we don’t need someone to tell us we
need to cooperate if we are to succeed… we know that already… this is
stuff we learned in Kindergarten………that is why we teach this to children…
the stuff you learned as a kid, stuff that is pre-ism is the stuff we need to know…
we learned to be nice to other children, not because of some ism or ideology,
but because the other kids are no different then you… and that is in part what
we learn with ism and ideologies… we learn that people are different because of
the different ism’s and ideologies they might hold… but biologically, we aren’t any
different… we have the same blood and the same bones and the same heart and lungs
and skin and senses… this is why we can have organ donors, our body parts are
interchangeable…if we were so different, we couldn’t have organ donors……
the same rules that I should live by are the same rules you should live by…
and for the same reasons, they don’t need an ism to validate these rules…
you are kind to people even if they don’t hold to your ism’s or ideologies…
no, you are kind because they are the same as you, human and we are kind to
animals and plants and tree’s not because they are human but because they
are life and we are a part of life too… we have similarities, not differences
with life……… the rules of being human are about kindness and love and peace…
the reason why we don’t encourage strife and violence is because as life,
strife and violence doesn’t allow us to achieve our goals… and our goals as
human beings are no different then our lives… we want to love and be loved
and to have the basic necessities to live as everyone else……. most people don’t
ask for more then they need… and by allowing some to have more via capitalism,
(an ism) we violate the basic principle that we treat people equally, with justice……
this is not an ism or an ideology to treat people equally, it is simply the price
of being human and of being life……. but because if we remove ism and ideology
from any consideration of how we treat people, then we come to the realization
that we must treat people equally, with justice…it is the ego of some that
allow them to think they must be treated better or that their children must be
treated better because they can afford it or that they have a title or a name or some
fame……. no, the path of justice which is equality doesn’t care who you are
or how much wealth you have, you get treated the same as everyone else…
because the treating of people better because they have a “name”
or some fame or some money is to bow down to some ism or ideology…
we already know how to treat people equally… but we don’t because we
think we might gain some benefit or some advantage by treating some
“better” then others… but that is false…the fundamental rule of
existence is to treat people just, which is equality…ism’s and ideologies
want unequal treatment of people for ideological reasons…
how are we suppose to live without any ism or ideology?
by treating people equally… and we cooperate and we share…
because those actions are not ism or ideological driven…
we can survive and I would suggest we would thrive in
a society or culture where we have eliminated ism’s and ideologies
and prejudice and habits and myths and superstitions……
because we would be existing based on our immediate needs and those
immediate needs of a human being are really quite small… and if we reduce
our “Needs” to a smaller rate then we will have enough to share with everyone,
no one goes without… unlike our current world where millions, indeed billions
go without every day but some few lucky ones because of an ism or ideology
gets to live far better lives then the vast majority of humanity…
remove ism’s and ideologies, and the world becomes a better place, indeed,
I would suspect it would become an utopia… perhaps, but a person can dream…
and that is another benefit of eliminating ism’s and ideologies, we begin to
dream of a tomorrow where we can achieve our dreams and our hopes
and our possibilities…
Kropotkin