I understand what you are saying Promethean…
let us continue: let us reevaluate this…
we have both humans and life having the same needs and desires
and wants… as programed by evolution… for that is what evolution
is, a program listed in our DNA……
we, humans and life, must have food, water, shelter, and education and procreation …
we humans, because of our complexity have a complex education system
but animals too educate their young, lions educate young lions
and dogs educated dogs to be dogs and some life like tree’s are
already programed by evolution to be tree’s
we cannot achieve our program that has been programed into us alone…
that is a basic fact of life, we cannot get our basics of life without
assistance from society… we cannot acquire food or shelter or an education
without society… that is what is meant to be dependent upon society, the polis…
we achieve such basic drives as demanded by evolution and we have no control over this…
so how do we achieve this? the answer is not within the ism’s and ideologies
of our life… we can achieve this without recourse to ism’s and ideologies…
without recourse to some dehumanizing, nihilistic ism……
but Kropotkin, how do we achieve our goals without some ism like
capitalism which forces people to do the dirty work of society for
little pay and even less status…… we recognize that society is the
only way for to become human, fully human and so, we help society
to be able to aid us in becoming human by aiding society…
what exactly does that mean?
One day a week or once every two weeks, we take on the ugly jobs
of civilization… we sweep the streets, we can be the policemen of society,
we become the agents of the society needs by playing a role within that society…
as some people are for whatever reason, unable to act in certain roles…
as I am hard of hearing, I cannot be a airplane controller, you need to hear
to do that, but I can do other roles within society… and that is what is important……
as Marx pointed out, to be a farmer in the morning and to be a policeman
in the afternoon… for one day a week and given our current population…
even one day every two weeks or possible one day every month… but we
can do the roles necessary for society to exist, to do the dirty jobs in return
we get the essentials of life, food, water, shelter, education, the ability to
procreate… and we also get to engage in the personal quest we have to
become ourselves…… but this means we must not engage in the
ism’s and ideologies that demand us to be certain roles and it is within
these dehumanizing and negation of who we are, that must be fought…
the goal is no longer personal covetousness that marks modern society today,
the goal is no longer the accumulation of materials such as property or wealth,
but in achieving personal goals such as going from 4:58 to 4:50… this
but we need society to achieve our personal goals, we cannot survive without
society…that is a statement of fact…
and so in return to our being able to achieve our personal goals,
we must return to society enough of our time and goods that
allow society can provide to us the security and ability to reach our goals…
we achieve our goals by aiding society in reaching its goals…
we are not subject to society and society isn’t subject of us…
we are simply partners in a mutual achievable goal of
reaching a point where we can help each other achieve our
respective goals…
we give up and in return society gives us the ability to achieve
our personal goals……. but we cannot achieve our goals if
only a few people have 90 percent of all the wealth in the world…
that is not sustainable and certainly doesn’t put us in a position to
reach our personal goals……… we must reevaluate what it means
to be a part of society…….
we must once again, work within what we really need as
human beings… we really only need certain things…
food, clothes, shelter, education, the ability to procreate…
the reality is, that human needs are really quite simple…
but we cannot include the rampant materialism of today…
that isn’t one of the basic needs of human beings and by
reducing, we can then achieve something far more important
then just a new couch or a new car or a new TV… For they
aren’t necessary, they are simply part of an addiction we have
to greed…
we must rethink what is the goal of human beings…
is materialism really a necessary for human beings?
NO, most definitely not……. but then what is important?
the necessity of life… food, water, shelter, clothes…….
and so, we can achieve the basics, we must reject the
current addictions we have to materialism, to goods…
and after that, we can find meaning without recourse to any
ism or ideology……. simplify our lives by removing the all that
garbage we have collected in ism’s and ideologies……
return to the basics…………and find meaning within
our own personal objective of engaging in what is important to us…
by finding our own personal meaning or goal within the confines
of achievable goals that can only happen without the
nihilism of ism’s and ideologies……
Kropotkin