# Operating systems of human beings **URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166 **Category:** Society, Government, and Economics **Created:** [September 3, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166 "2026-09-03T18:03:50Z") **Posts on this page:** 10 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Peter_Kropotkin) #### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166/1 "2026-09-03T18:03:50Z")
One of my pet projects is the connection between the one/individual and the whole/state/society… I spend much of my waking hours trying to understand the relationship between the one and the state… and there are several bricks in the wall in this… We have first of all, and perhaps the most important aspect is the environment… we as individuals, spend our lives reacting to the environment… that is what we do, literally spend our lives reacting to the environment around us… for different environments require different responses… for example, we can imagine a man living in say, 1870 in Britan, the Victorian period…in that particular environment, one has to act in a particular way to fit in… it was a fairly conservative age… but one has to recall that this conservativism is in response to another environment, the Napoleonic wars… which ended in 1815…and to we recall that Europe had an epic revolutionary period in 1848 where there were European, throughout the entire continent, there were many attempts in many countries, to overthrow the political power of the monarchy system… To know what one age is thinking or believing, we have to understand what that age is responding to… and the revolutionary attempt of 1848, brought the old regimes to dole out modest progressive measures… but they weren’t done to show the progressive colors of the ruling classes, the modest political and economic advances were done in fear… appease the lower classes enough to keep them from trying to overthrow the ruling classes, as they tried in 1848… every action we do or think about doing, is in response to some environmental pressure that we face… and this is about as axiom as we can get about both individuals and the state/society… we respond to environmental pressures… our very actions today are in response to some prior environmental pressures… and if you don’t get this, there is no way in hell you can understand the one/individual and the state/society or their interaction between the two… to recap, we respond to changes in the environment by making changes on our own or collectively, in reacting to the environment we currently face… this is step one… Step two: the question becomes, how do we respond to changes in the environment? do we respond individually or collectively, and how exactly are we to respond? What methods do we use to respond… Here lies the methods, we refer to them as isms and ideologies… to various changes in the environment, we can react in a dozen of different ways… conservatively, liberally, religious, scientific, economic, social, politically, and philosophically… are all isms and responses to the challenges of the environment… the ism capitalism is one such response to the environment and communism is another such response to the every changing environment… religions are also a response to the environment… Christianity and its history are simply responses to the environment of the day… unlike Greek gods, like Athena, capitalism isn’t born fully grown out of the forehead of Zeus… it united aspects of the state/society that had already existed… Adam Smith connected up various aspects of the state and society that had already existed and laid out these forms and structures into a pattern… his book, ‘‘The Wealth of Nations’’ isn’t very original because all it does is create a unified pattern that was already present… but that is what genius does, it is this connection of patterns that already exists, but the genius simply points out the pattern which no one had seen before… genius is connecting already existing patterns into a foremat that is both clear and understandable… did Marx create communism out of his forehead like Zeus? Nope, the idea of communism had been in the air for decades before Marx ever wrote a word… but it wasn’t a unified pattern, just a random mix of thoughts and beliefs that were not yet turned into a collected pattern… that was the genius of Marx… he turned a random series of thoughts and beliefs into a comprehensive belief system… it is built from various beliefs into one operating system… and that is the nature of ism’s and ideologies… and is the heart of systems such as science and physics… it turned various facts and thoughts into a operating system… Einstein for example, his genius was to turn the various facts that he knew existed into one valid operating system, we know it as ‘‘The Theory of Relativity’’ the various aspects of his theory had been around, in one form or another, for decades… he managed to turn various facts into a complete operating system about the world… exactly as Marx did and as Adam Smith did… and all of them did so in response to the environment and pressures of that particular environment… So, one of the ongoing reactions to the environment is still going on today, even after 225 years, I take 1800 to be a base years from which we can deduce much of the 21st century…and that one particular response the environmental pressures is the secularization of Europe during the 19th century… a process still going on today… this secularization is a response to the environmental pressures of the day… this secularization has a history, something people forget today… To be blunt, the belief system of religions are no longer applicable to the environment we face today… and it hasn’t been useful in reacting to the environment in over a century… there is no need to believe in a god because that is not a useful response to the environment of today… as we can information about how the world and the universe works, it removes the actual need of religions and god… for they existed to explain certain aspects of our world and universe that wasn’t explainable in any other way… as we can imagine, the people in the ancient world used religions and god to explain aspects of the world, and those points were unexplainable… Thunder and Lighting are two examples of turning to god and religions to explain the phenomena of Thunder and lighting… as we can now explain thunder and lighting in scientific terms, we can remove religious explanations to the questions of thunder and lighting… it is an easy response to the questions that disturb us, turn to god and religions… but today, because of science, we need to turn less and less to religious explanations to what we don’t know or understand… Science provides us with a method to rationally explain events, objects, people…This method allows us to move away from religious explanations to the who, what, how, when, where and why of existence… So, bottom line is that people who hold onto religions and god, are not adapting to the current environment that exists today… an environment where we have no need for explanations that involve god, religions, heaven or hell… we have other, much more accurate explanations of the universe within science, history, economics, geology, physics, biologogy, and no explanation of the universe by theology or religion is going to be as accurate or right, as science… Any belief in god or religions is simply a rejection of the validity of the modern world… as a method, religions are a failure…hence the rise of the secularization in the modern world…to explain the world in terms of religions and god, is simply an explanation that depends on the whims of god…and in fact, we can account for democracies in terms of a method of escaping the whims of a monarch… and mind you, this was part of the agenda of the Enlightenment… to remove the whims of a monarch or god, into a much more responsive method of answering the questions of people… we turn from the whims of the monarch/god and we engage with its opposite, and what is the opposite of the whims of a monarch or god? Laws, rules… it is often said, that America is a nation of the rule of law… notice, not the whims of a monarch or god, but of rules and laws… Once again, we see how we have in response to the environment we create new methods and operating systems… so, in response the whims of monarchs and god, we have the modern state… we have in a meaningful way, reduced the random whims of kings and god…for an individual it is hard to exist in a universe that depends on the random whims of a king or god… for what is right and legal can change in an instant with the monarch and god, changing his mind whenever it suits them…and we can see this in the wildly random whims of IQ45… I am sure he wants to rename America into Trumpland… and that is the nature of monarchs and wannabe dictators… we suffer under their wildly changing day to day whims… much of the uncertainty of modern-day America lies in the random whims of IQ45… one whim and we are losing a war with Iran and another whim will have us invading Greenland… Hence the need for checks and balances of the law and government… to avoid living in a world of whims and random urges… we have organizations such as institutions like the Justice Departments and the IRS to help us avoid the whims of the dictators…in this avoidance of whims lies in the creation of institutions like NATO and the U.N… in this lies much of what we see today in our own operating systems, a reaction to the environment we have today… assuming America survives this attempt at creating a dictatorship, we will enter a new age of very strict laws and rules that will be an attempt to avoid any new dictatorship from rising… that is how our reacting to new environments happen… something happens and we react to it… and every single isms/ideology was an response to the environment as it was happening… and we can use this as a template to understand how human beings became the top of the food chain… we were the most successful species at reacting to the environment… that is why human beings are who we are… because of all the species of planet Earth, we were the most successful species at adaptations of all the animal species… and our ability to adapt to survive, that is at the heart of our success…and this is why methods of some isms and ideologies are failures, because they are unable to adapt to the everchanging environment we face, every single day…and this is why the operating system of conservativism is a failure… it is unable to change or adapt to the fast changing world in which we live in… belief in god or religions is a failure to adapt to the modern world… nothing simpler than that… and that explains the success of operating systems, methods like liberalism and progressivism has and will continue to succeed… it is adaptable and changeable to ever new conditions…and that my friends, is the key to the success of the human species… being able to adapt and change… whereas operating systems like religions are unable to change and adapt, leading to their removal… as we saw in the 19th century when as the years passed, it moved into secularism… it is a much more successful path of moving forward into the future… and so ends part 1… Kropotkin ---
### Author: ![Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Peter_Kropotkin) #### Post date: [September 4, 2026, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166/2 "2026-09-04T16:25:13Z")
Part 2: what are operating systems? In our existence they are the ism’s and ideologies that people hold… thus capitalism and communism are operating systems…as is any religion, and political or economic system, such as democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, socialism, and even the most successful economic system in history, yep, the million years long success story that is the hunter-gatherer system… and the rise of the cities and agriculture which drove the next operating system… for without agriculture there cannot be a rise of the city… agriculture is the driving factor for the creation of the city and the next format which is the city/state… let us be clear what we are talking about… we have institutions, such as the Department of Justice and the IRS and the military… from the viewpoint of those institutions, say the Department of Justice, it doesn’t matter what operating system we are using… from the viewpoint of the Justice Department, it doesn’t matter if the operating system was a democracy or a dictatorship or capitalism… the Justice department will still function regardless of which operating system we use… it is irrelevant to those institutions which operating system we have or use…America will still have institutions regardless, if the operating systems is a democracy or a dictatorship…it doesn’t matter… so, the real question becomes this, which operating systems should we be using? We have several economic systems to choose from and we have another several political systems that we can choose… and we can mix and match within the political systems and its economic system we use… in other words, we can have political system of democracy and a different economic system, say communism… As I have written before, communism is not, NOT, a political system… it is an economic system… I note that Marx was and considered himself to be an economist, and if one reads his last book, Das Capital, which I have read, (boring as sin) but the economic aspect of the book was its primary emphasis… not the political aspect… and this is important… don’t think Marx was a political theorist, he wasn’t… it was the Russian group, such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky that turned communism from it economic base, to becoming a political system… hence the failure of the Soviet Union…it was purely a structural failure…for the allege communism of the Soviet Union was in reality a dictatorship… not a a communist state at all… turning an economic system into a political system is a clear path of failure, as the Soviet Union was the example… But let us now explore the two primary economic systems of the last 200 years… capitalism and communism… Outwardly, they are completely at odds, but the fact is that the two systems are in fact, copies of each other… the operating system of both is exactly the same… and let us explore that… in both capitalism and communism, the one, the individual is supposed to give up everything, including one’s life, to promote and advance the system in question… the one is irrelevant in both… the only good worth pursuing is the operating system itself… so, the only value worth pursuing in capitalism is wealth… and the one/individual is clearly expendable in capitalism… how many times was I threaten with being fired because I was, expendable… and I was told numerous times exactly how I was expendable… and that is a key salient point of capitalism, everyone is expendable in the pursuit of profits…the goal is not the one/the individual but the pursuit of profits, which is the means the operating system of capitalism works…if there are no profits, there is no capitalism… simply as that… which is why individuals are expendable in capitalism… the goal is profits, not individuals health or welfare… the magical goal of business is to build an entire business without any workers to create greater and even greater profits, whereas the single biggest cost in business is clearly the workers and their benefits, and we see this in the rise of AI… someone to do the work without paying workers… (and we both know that this will end very, very badly for everyone involved) And now we look at the other economic system, communism… the goal is to have the state own the means of production and all our needs are met through the state returning the profits from the businesses they own, back to the workers… and within communism we have the exact same example of capitalism whereas the one/the individual is expendable… the only that matters in communism is the state, everything else is conditional, expendable to the needs of the state… the two systems end up at the exact same place, where the one/the individual is expendable to the needs of the greater interest… which in capitalism is profits and in communism, the state… but both require, in fact demand, that the worker, the one devotes their entire life to that operating system, be it capitalism or be it communism… the end result is still the same… the worker, the one actually doing the work is expendable… because anyone can be brought in to do that job… most jobs are interchangeable, equivalent… the skill set might be different in each job, but frankly, outside of the professions, almost anyone can do any job out there… one might say, what about… for example, that one the most impressive houses in Vienna, is a house designed not by an architect, but a philosopher… Haus Wittgenstein… and he also designed and built a small cabin in Norway… one person, with a bit of training, can do virtually any job out there… which is why people are expendable… Now in communism, we don’t have the same pursuit of profits that we have in capitalism, but people are also expendable in communism… because the goal of communism, the creation of the worker state, requires people to become expendable in search of that final, ultimate goal… the worker state trumps any personal individual goal, just as the pursuit of profits, trumps any personal individual goal… the two operating systems are carbon copies of each other… and the end result lies in the negation of human beings and their values… which I have defined as ‘‘Nihilism’’’ both communism and capitalism are in fact, because of their negation of human beings and their values, both operating systems are in fact, nihilism… any defense of either/both systems comes down to the fact that both systems are nihilistic in nature… we cannot escape this conclusion… and if those two operating systems are equal, nihilistic, then what operating system can we find that is not, NOT nihilistic in nature? and we haven’t even brought up the equal point that neither system brings us any ethical or moral benefits to the table… for in both capitalism and communism, ethical and moral concerns are not on the table… it is as if ethical and morals concerns are not a thing, in either capitalism or in communism… just another brick in the wall which is why we need to rethink, reevaluate our operating systems as we move forward into the future… if capitalism is nihilistic and communism is equally nihilistic, then now what? Kropotkin ---
### Author: ![eodnhoj7](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@eodnhoj7](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/eodnhoj7) #### Post date: [September 5, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166/3 "2026-09-05T02:08:09Z")
The void of nihilism is not a true void as a raw pain occurs and a raw pain is not a true void…as pain is present. Nihilism reveals itself as self-contradicting at the experiential level. It reveals itself as not the end or foundation of things as the existential suffering present within it is not nothingness. ---
### Author: ![Nausamedu](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/nausamedu/32/24126_2.png) [@Nausamedu](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Nausamedu) #### Post date: [September 5, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166/4 "2026-09-05T16:06:08Z")
This is an absolutely magnificent topic for one single reason: It perfectly demonstrates how human beings refuse to engage with the idea of viewing their own species as it should be, simply as another living organism, and thus explain behavior patterns the same way we do with LITERALLY ALL OTHER LIFE on planet earth. And its absolutely comical cause if people did simply view homo sapiens as just yet another living organism and species of animal, nearly everything we do would make perfect sense in that context. Instead of this, of doing the obvious, we invent bullshit standards, morals and ideologies by which we try to orient and view humanity. In a way its so amazing absurd that its almost fascinating. ---
### Author: ![Socrates](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/socrates/32/28600_2.png) [@Socrates](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Socrates) #### Post date: [September 5, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166/5 "2026-09-05T18:51:13Z")
It’s an interesting paradox of Darwinists. Unfailingly you’ll hear them talk about “what makes humans different from other animals.” Humans are other animals. ---
### Author: ![Nausamedu](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/nausamedu/32/24126_2.png) [@Nausamedu](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Nausamedu) #### Post date: [September 5, 2026, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166/6 "2026-09-05T20:35:13Z")
> [@Socrates](#): > > It’s an interesting paradox of Darwinists. Unfailingly you’ll hear them talk about “what makes humans different from other animals.” Humans are other animals. Exactly. And what makes this both comical and frustrating is that the answers come so easily if you simply view human beings as other animals. Nature is FILLED with things that act, reason, react, behave, think, process, the same way we do. But no. We are “speshul”. Mommy’s little skydaddy born chosen ones. We need to create our own rule set by which we try to judge ourselves. Even if it becomes both comical and nonsensical. ---
### Author: ![Socrates](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/socrates/32/28600_2.png) [@Socrates](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Socrates) #### Post date: [September 5, 2026, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166/7 "2026-09-05T20:58:59Z")
I think it has to do with language. Language is formed as an interanimalistic, external process. It is alien in our minds, it suggests an alien prescence, something apart from our own regular animal experience. Though it is animal, it is not the product of a single animal’s instinct, it is a thing extracted from certain group dynamics, it filters and sets and becomes a thing that is not directly relateable. Since much of its component is hierarchical, it also induces the idea that there is a “higher,” in the hierarchical sense, thing that is apart from what feels like nature, from what is purely a product of personal instinct, and is also “above,” (special). The hidden boss. ---
### Author: ![Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Peter_Kropotkin) #### Post date: [September 6, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166/8 "2026-09-06T16:57:51Z")
As far as operating systems go, the question becomes, which of the many possibilities should we engage with and why that operating system and not another? we have both political operating systems, democracy, dictatorship, monarchy to name a few political systems, and we have capitalism, communism, feudal system as possible economic choices… we can, as I have mentioned, mix and match the economic systems with the political systems… we can in fact have a democracy as a political system and communism as an economic system, or we can have a dictatorship as a political system and capitalism as its economic system… of course, some systems work better with each other than other systems, but we can in fact, mix and match the political systems with the economic systems… and some systems due to where we are historically, won’t really work at all, the longest lasting economic system ever created, hunter-gatherer, is not really an option today… and the feudal system isn’t much of a choice today either… but it’s there… So, given our realistic choices, which political system makes sense and which economic system makes sense? again, we can mix and match, so which systems would you take, economically and which system politically, and of course, most importantly, why those choices? Kropotkin ---
### Author: ![Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Peter\_Kropotkin](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Peter_Kropotkin) #### Post date: [September 6, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/operating-systems-of-human-beings/86166/9 "2026-09-06T21:38:34Z")
Let us take a look at another operating system… Liberalism…I seem to be one of the few around here who actually supports liberalism… the anti-liberal crowd however, never actually tells us what they do support instead of Liberalism… I have asked many times, if not liberalism, then what? And not surprisingly enough, no one ever answer… and I wonder why that is? If you are against something, then you have to do two things, one, tell us why you are against something and two, what do you suggest to replace that ism you are against…and the anti-liberal crowd hasn’t done either thing… we can attribute that failure to, perhaps a lack of imagination or a lack of intelligence… or simply laziness in actually finding something to be positive, instead of the anti-liberal crowd immense laziness… As no one has, as yet, offered up a direction opposed to liberalism, I shall offer up a positive approach too liberalism and to its opposite, whatever the hell that is… The bottom line in liberalism is its opposition to tradition… and the root of liberalism comes from my favorite period in history, the Enlightenment… and the connection? in that liberalism is not about being part of tradition, but about one person practicing their own values and beliefs… Think of Luther…the values he proposed, were values that had been in the air for centuries… Jan Hus for example was born in 1369, was burned at the stake in 1415… he was a Luther before Luther… (exactly, the same way that Darwin ideas of evolution were in the air for decades before he wrote the ‘‘The Origin of Species’’) So, what exactly are the ‘‘liberal values’’ That all human beings are created equal, that diversity is the best path into the future, again, we don’t need to follow tradition to know what is best for us, that the values one/the individual holds are as valuable as the values held by a state or society, that the future is just as, if not more important than the past, or liberal values said another way, that the one/the individual values are just as important as any values or beliefs that are held by the state/society… we can state this, in this way: ‘‘Crazy how the Christian idea of heaven is an untouched paradise, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a utopia of peace, unity and happiness… but right here on Earth, they absolutely don’t want it because it’s too WOKE’’ That kinda sums up where we are at… liberal values are really the idea of heaven on Earth, and yet, conservatives and others around here hate this idea…and the reasons they offer us to escape this is ideas like people are inherently bad/evil, and it is not practical… people will become ‘‘lazy’’ and ‘‘worthless’’ of course, never offering us any evidence of this… in this is another example of the difference between liberal values and conservative values… conservative values have to be taken on faith… So, the concept of liberalism stems from the religious… basically Luther… ‘‘Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise, God help me’’… if there was one liberal statement, this is it… this statement of having one own’s belief, as being the standard for our beliefs is the very cornerstone of liberalism… We cannot do otherwise… and if the cornerstone of belief is having one’s own values being the key value, then what does the opposition to liberalism actually mean? It is a statement that we are not and cannot hold beliefs and values that are opposed to the ‘‘community standards’’ to be oppose to communal values is the liberal value… in other words, those who oppose liberalism also demand that we must, MUST hold to communal standards… in other words, the values and beliefs we can hold are values already sanctioned by the state/society… we must be in conformity to the value and beliefs of the state… that is exactly what it means to be opposed to liberalism…only state/society values and beliefs can be held… thus the opposition to such thinkers as Luther, Galileo, Newton, Nietzsche… opposition to liberalism is holding to whatever standards and values the state/society holds… So, let us explore this idea a bit further… MR. A, for example holds to both dictatorship and against voting, and communism, ideas that are not part of the community standards, and thus, by definition, he is practicing liberalism… he opposes the community values/standards… that by definition is liberalism…he is holding to his own values and beliefs, exactly like Luther… if MR. A, held to values and beliefs also held by the community, he would be a conservative…but why doesn’t MR. A see this? Because he has never given 3 seconds of thought to his values and beliefs… he feels it, but he hasn’t given any thought, rational, logically thought as to why he believes in what he believes… MR. A IS A LIBERAL, he has just never thought about it before… What exactly do conservative belief in? that the values and beliefs of the past should guide us today… that we shouldn’t ever investigate our values and their sources, and MR. A is a conservative in this respect, he has never actually, investigated what it means to be a communist, or even what it means to exist within a dictatorship… He doesn’t realize that within both situations, he would be one of the first to be tossed into a concentration camp… for within both, liberals are hated because they hold to values and beliefs that are not community standards, as dictated by the dictator or the state… to hold onto one belief’s as being the standard is liberal… exactly as Luther was a Liberal… he, Luther, just wouldn’t have understood that given his time in history…but today, today we can examine that and know that Luther was a liberal because his private values and beliefs are as worthy as the community values and beliefs…with equal validity… to hold that my own values and believes are equal worth to the state/society is a liberal one… Thus, every great thinker that was, was opposed to the traditional values and beliefs of their state/society… and Kropotkin, which great thinker was opposed to his State/ society? why everyone of them… From Socrates to Jesus to Luther and as mentioned Galileo on down…for it is the opposition to the community values and beliefs that is what makes a great thinker… if one conforms, then one is a conservative, if one opposes the current values, then one is a liberal…every single innovation ever created, was opposed to the standard values and beliefs of that state/society… every one of the advances to the state/society has come about because of the opposition to the current values and standards that make up a society/state… every single time… and that is the value we must look at, to oppose liberalism is to hold onto the current values and beliefs of the state and society around you…because holding onto values that are not society/state approved, is liberalism… and many people around here, don’t realize it, but they are in fact liberals… because they hold onto their own private and personal values/beliefs as equal to the state/ society around them… and that is the heart of liberalism… Kropotkin ---
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IQ45 recently said, ‘‘too many non-working holidays in America. The workers don’t want it either! Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’’ the capitalistic plea that people aren’t working long enough or hard enough… according to IQ45, ALL Americans should be working 24/7/365… but that feeds into the real American religion… which is capitalism and our fervent prayers for profits and money… that is the true American religion… to oppose money and profits is clearly about as un-American as one can get… the claim is that America is a secular society/state and yet, this ongoing prayers to money and profits show us that we are still very religious about money and work and profits… it is our religion… nothing more, nothing less… we have simply moved our devotion from god and heaven to money and profits…and therein lies the real hated of communism and Marx… it undermines the religious argument of our devotion to cash and all that cash brings us… people will hurt and murder and maim others for their cash, if that is not a religious devotion, I don’t know what is… Every single boss I ever had, has threatened me with being fired because I wasn’t as devoted to profits as they were… every single boss has told me how expendable I was, in the pursuit of the only goal that matter, the pursuit of profits… money before people… and if people are as expendable as the bosses claimed, then money/profits is the goal and something worth praying to… I am certainly not a Luther… but Marx, Marx is closer to being a Luther than I’ll ever be… ‘‘Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise’’ is just as true about Marx as it is about Luther… and thus we have an answer to why Marx is hated… not because of the operating system of communism, but because he opposed the one true faith we have in money/profits… and every person called a communist today, and it’s just about everyone who is a liberal, it is because they aren’t 100% in favor of money/profits… The faith in profits and money must be 100% and its faith is required by every single ‘‘red-blooded American’’… But if one takes a clear look at profits, it is clear that it is only going to a fairly small number of people… the top billionaires have increased their wealth by 121% over the last 10 years… that the richest 1% owns about 43% of all, ALL GLOBAL ASSETS… And how does that benefit the other 99%? No one notices or cares… in the US, the top 1% owns about 31.7% of the total national wealth… and that is the real beneficiaries of our work…not us, but the wealthy… , if we work 24/7/365, as IQ45 suggests, it isn’t us who benefits but the 1%… most of us work our whole lives and wind up with virtually nothing… and that is the point of capitalism… to make sure all we work for is sent to the ultra-wealthy, and we get, if we are lucky, peanuts… I worked for almost 50 years, and I have virtually nothing to show for it… and when you come to retirement after 50 years of work, you too shall have virtually nothing to show for it, as our work, 50 years worth, has been stolen by the 1%… and where is the ‘‘Justice’’ in that? For justice to matter, it must be equal in its application… and economically, we are not treated equally… and this is why we are failing as a nation… because the vast amount of wealth is stolen by the 1%… and how does that create a better, more equal society, state? spoiler alert, it doesn’t… Now one might say, but Kropotkin, you are wrong… Ok, great, show me, exactly how I am wrong? Kropotkin