On Sunday, January 27, 2013 6:16:59 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: > > Hi Craig, > > Or belief in socialism/communism, such as you. >
I don't 'believe in' socialism/communism. I observe that a healthy civilization integrates private and public values, just like a healthy psyche does the same. When there is an overgrowth of private interest into common resources, there is pathology, just as when public interest intrudes on the privacy of our bodies and morals there is pathology. The fire department is socialism. The library is socialism. Public roads are socialism. If I were to 'believe in' a political form, it would be in a central support for organized socio-political experimentation. The goal should be for everyone to be able to live in a place where the law of the land suits their comfort and opportunity more than other places. Craig > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > *From:* Stephen P. King <javascript:> > *Receiver:* everything-list <javascript:> > *Time:* 2013-01-26, 11:55:22 > *Subject:* Re: a system of oppression? > > On 1/26/2013 11:45 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:36:45 AM UTC-5, JohnM wrote: >> >> Craig, I read many of your posts, none was so pessimistic so far. > > > Ah, maybe I was being more sarcastic than the internet allows. I was > intending to mock those ideas by quoting Scrooge, as I think that there is > nothing further from the truth than the idea that character is completely > independent from their circumstance - that people with no shoes can pull > themselves up by their bootstraps or who have been born into a system of > oppression can free themselves by belief in the free market or some such > thing. > > Craig > > Hey! > > What exactly is a system of oppression? Could you describe an actual > situation in Nature that is "oppression-free"? > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
