7 Sep 2024 2:26 pm
Capitalism? Socialism? Communism? Those are common forms of government that we hear about so often these days. One is good. The other two are not so good.
It is shortsighted in the extreme to consider governments while forgetting the human elements involved. It is the human beings involved in government, not the theoretical system itself, that causes abuses of power. Here is an example. China and Vietnam are both communist countries. China wants to rule the world. Vietnam is content to rule itself. How can this disparity be? Aren't they both communist nations?
Socialism works perfectly well in the insect world. Termites, honey bees, ants and the like all thrive nicely in systems that mandate specified categories to which individuals are assigned. In these there is seldom discord and never any form of dissent. The reason is simple. No insect has a personality. No insect dreams of tomorrow and wants anything in particular. Insects are conscious but not self conscious. They are not greedy or selfish or self centered. This is why they thrive.
We humans are not like the insects. This is the reason we have so many problems in life. Life for us is a continual struggle against situations caused by our own natures. We have only to look into mirrors to find the root causes of discord.
Over the thousands of years of experience the wise among us have always choosen to live apart from the general populations. They tend to reamin, in a sense, distant. There is good reason for this. They know. And while they thrive in relative peace the rest of us continue to be engulfed by one crisis after another.
How, we may wonder, can their be a creater, a God figure who allows such nonsense? This question is not asked by the wise. They already know the answer which is that the Earth is a school, a training ground for us. Here we learn to overcome adversity by denying "self" the opportunity to rise up and conquer.
The above is the reason we have religions in the world. Can we notice that insects have none? They don't need them because no insect thinks about the afterlife. We have not gone wrong. We have merely failed to understand who and what we are.
It is shortsighted in the extreme to consider governments while forgetting the human elements involved. It is the human beings involved in government, not the theoretical system itself, that causes abuses of power. Here is an example. China and Vietnam are both communist countries. China wants to rule the world. Vietnam is content to rule itself. How can this disparity be? Aren't they both communist nations?
Socialism works perfectly well in the insect world. Termites, honey bees, ants and the like all thrive nicely in systems that mandate specified categories to which individuals are assigned. In these there is seldom discord and never any form of dissent. The reason is simple. No insect has a personality. No insect dreams of tomorrow and wants anything in particular. Insects are conscious but not self conscious. They are not greedy or selfish or self centered. This is why they thrive.
We humans are not like the insects. This is the reason we have so many problems in life. Life for us is a continual struggle against situations caused by our own natures. We have only to look into mirrors to find the root causes of discord.
Over the thousands of years of experience the wise among us have always choosen to live apart from the general populations. They tend to reamin, in a sense, distant. There is good reason for this. They know. And while they thrive in relative peace the rest of us continue to be engulfed by one crisis after another.
How, we may wonder, can their be a creater, a God figure who allows such nonsense? This question is not asked by the wise. They already know the answer which is that the Earth is a school, a training ground for us. Here we learn to overcome adversity by denying "self" the opportunity to rise up and conquer.
The above is the reason we have religions in the world. Can we notice that insects have none? They don't need them because no insect thinks about the afterlife. We have not gone wrong. We have merely failed to understand who and what we are.