tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post2422447587004166974..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: The nature of our current crisisDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-91486600254675383922018-11-04T05:40:48.276-05:002018-11-04T05:40:48.276-05:00A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Com...A house divided against itself cannot stand. <br /><br />Comunism had a basic creed. To each according to his needs, from each according to his capabilities. Communism collapsed as everyone gamed the system to give less than they got out. The more of individual life is put into the public sphere the less the individual will feel responsibility and control. Morality, ethics decay at all levels. When 90% of us were farmers, primary producers, such individual responsibility was self evident. Nowadays even small manufactures, corner stores are gone due to wal mart, chinese mass production. Internet has made us into isolated screen observers, not as formerly, church goers, active debaters of local political import. We have become passive. A few gatekeepers control allowed inputs, be it plastic toys or political memeson twitter. Since noone has any control over primary production(subsistence farming) or secondary production(daily articles of use like clothing) and contacts have broken down with neighbours, as if we were all in solitary confinement in jail, our sense of control of life has disappeared almost entirely. You are talking here of a superstructure in codewords meant to provoke partisan battle cries, like during the civil war. Back then industrialization made slavery superfluous in one sense by mechanization, but through cotton gin mechanization and clothing manufacture revived just that slavery in the south to feed northernfactories like the mass near slavery in bangladesh, china, indonesia for nike, apple. The north invented its own enemy in effect. We are doing the same today, complaining of worker's rights abuse while buying cheap goods imports. <br /><br />Like under communism, the less personal and concrete the object of our life is, the more apathetic, neurotic, distrustful, nihilistic we become. At a certain point such a sciety tends to self destruct. I recall reading kurt vonnegut's 'Player Piano'. The general concept of alienation was portrayed by many, james joyce, or in T.S. Eliot's phrase 'like a patient anesthetized upon a table'. <br /><br />The search for meaning of Viktor Frankl returns in our day with a vengeance, bringing with it all our subconscious monsters we tried to tame by taking away responsibility and involvement in daily life from the individual.Ed Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753383765150492163noreply@blogger.com