part of my objections with the whole materialistic/corporate life
is that they deal only with the basic, bottom level of existence…
of the bottom level of physical needs…… what exactly do
corporations offer us? only money, promotions, titles…
the basic ego driven things of no value…
the capitalistic world cannot answer or fulfill the higher level
needs of human existence… needs like love or esteem or
safety/security or self-actualization…
the capitalistic world can only deal with the lowest level of
our needs…of feeding or clothing or giving us shelter or health care
or an education…….
the capitalistic world cannot answer our questions of our higher needs…
this basic failure of the capitalistic world is why I continue to
criticize the capitalistic world… because it only deals with
the physical needs of human existence…
we can operate within the capitalistic world if we engage our
thoughts to the fulfillment of our higher needs outside of the
capitalistic world… we cannot, cannot fulfill our higher needs
within the capitalistic world because it is only focused upon the
bottom layer or level of human existence………
that is why we must grow beyond the bottom level, basic level
of human existence that is the capitalistic society…
our economic and political and cultural system must become
something more the just an attempt to engage with only our
physical level of existence…we must have an economic,
political, social system that engages with us on our higher
human levels…
that is the value of communism…… it attempts to deal with
humans on a higher level then just the physical level that
capitalism deals with…communism fails when it deals
only with our lowest level of existence…… we must seek
out economic, political and social/cultural systems that
rise above being just merely about our physical, bottom
level needs of food, water, shelter, health care……
we need to embrace social/economic/political systems
that attempt to reach higher then just the physical needs
of human existence……
our need for safety/security and love/belonging and
esteem and finally self-actualization must be included
into our next social/political/economic system……
a rather tall order but a necessary one……
capitalism is a failure because it is only focuses on the
physical needs instead of the higher needs of being human…
communism a step further into a focus into the higher levels
of human existence but only a step… it does focus on
the belonging need of human existence and humans must
met the need of belonging but communism cannot fulfill
the other human existence needs of safety/security or
love or esteem or self-actualization…
so the search is now clear… how do we find a political/
economic/social system that helps us fulfill our basic
human needs of safety/security or love/belonging or
esteem or the most human of all, the self-actualization
level…
the goal we are trying to reach is the goal of us reaching,
both individually and collectively, the goal of
reaching the level of self-actualization…
of being able to reach our full potential of us…
of being able to find and fulfill our possibilities…
again, both individually and, and collectively……
what social/economic/political system will allow us to do just that?
and that is the question.
Kropotkin