Good government is no substitute for self-government
Communism is a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community. Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. Today we work hard just to survive and we can barely do that. Many people work multiple jobs to do just that, while others whose work is regarded as important contribute little to the whole. When we think of disease prevention we only give credit to the doctors, what of the garbage workers and waste disposal units? Without the later would we not have streets filled with rotting food, sewers overflowing with feces and waste? The doctor would then be of little use as everyone would be sick and dying at higher rates than even now. However a doctor is paid even more than these unsung heroes. Why? One commonly given answer is that the doctor paid a lot of money for school and spent a lot of time to get when they are. There is that thing hinders us all, money. What if the doctor did not need to pay money to get where they are? Someone would say no one would want to do such a job without payment. Surely this is not emotionally true, someone has to desire the knowledge and satisfaction the job brings. Though in a communistic society, without currency, being a doctor, doing what you are capable of doing guarantees you all your needs. Home, food, and the same luxuries as everyone else, so long as you put into the society it will give back. When you break it down to the essential variables that affect everyone, no one is more or less important than another. This does not lead to a loss of individuality that is built as you grow. Without currency education is free for as long as you seek it and give labor into society. All the people who would not be able to afford an education and reach their full potential in the current world society could reach the stars. Some think in a communistic society everyone would be in cookie cutter houses. This would be untrue housing would be based on needs. There are many routed for these needs, one person merely needs a studio apartment or single bedroom, and I am sure the math is easy to follow from there. There are homeless that wish to work to obtain housing, in a communist society the employer is not bound by a status quo and can hire without limit. In this economic world all things are centered on the almighty dollar, but in a communist society the center is the people. Sure production will change within a company from one thing to another to keep up with the demand, but nobody would be without. Children would not need to work and the age 18 could be a possibility to start putting into the whole. Since everyone would be working somewhere the overall quality of life would be improved. This is however something that could only be acquired if done worldwide. There are materials only certain regions have and others need everyone works together giving without currency exchanged and receiving what they need in return. Everyone and everything is of equal importance, there is no pound per pound exchange no bartering. Everyone benefits when everyone works whether it be as a doctor, teacher, driver, stocker, manager or anything else. People can do the jobs they desire and while contributing to society want nothing it’s all provided. Some think luxuries like televisions and games would not count to the need mentioned, and they don’t but when everyone is working such luxuries can be provided to everyone. As I said however either everyone is in or no one is, sure a few that don’t want to work would need to be excluded from the whole. With this society the entire human race would prosper and not just lucky individuals, is that not what we strive for? It does no good to place all power and wealth in one place or on one person, but when all people are equal it takes more to conquer us than when there are fewer beacons to take. Many look at how communism has played out in the world and have disdain for it and i will tell you why. in the world communism is used as a government when it is not. communism is the idea of the people for the people where the only thing is the people. communism is just this, the abolition of currency and the building off of the premise; from each according to their ability to each according to their need.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Anarchy
Anarchy is a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal. Anarchy proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society. Instead of having a system ever looming over the people, the people would decide how to deal with situations. A truly circumstance based model that could deal with the fine details, rather than apply vague overstatements blanketed in political concerns. In a state of anarchy the only premise that is followed is an overarching social contract. It is not law, but merely an idea to which all minds are built upon. Each may follow their own path until harm of the mind or body occurs to an unwilling recipient. From there we build upon each other when the time arises within our local region. This region can be as small as family and as large as the globe varying based on the event at hand. With ever advancing technologies such organization can occur with ease. If a new road needs to be built the region affected assembles as it does now to determine the necessary actions. The difference is this assembly is only for the road, only people that care and are affected. The assembly must ensure no one will be harmed by the decisions. New decisions are easily made to accommodate that person and the road is built. Once built the assembly disembarks. The main crimes in an anarchic world are those that cause harm upon others; murder, rape, torture physical damage and forms of psychological damage such as that which could provoke suicide. Again the affected region deals with the crime where there is no judge only a mass jury varying again on region and issue. Since these crimes break the socially accepted contract, the criminals are no longer protected in the society. Two mentionable options to deal with criminals is isolation like prison and termination or death. Punishments can and should vary, some criminal actions affect others for the rest of their life and so should the punishment. There are too many variables to cover here that affect decisions but an assembly can better weigh and understand each one. Some may not automatically see the benefit of such a society that is fluid and without leadership. If you compare Anarchy to systems today it gives the results the others seek. Governments make laws that hinder some, benefit others and are hard to overcome when it’s really necessary. Only those with enough money can afford a lawyer to overcome laws that don’t benefit them. Whereas anarchy is situation based, rulings change for similar cases due to circumstances that make the difference. No one is held to laws which most hinder us, for actions of such laws rarely if ever harm others. As well as the fact laws do no good until someone breaks one and is caught anarchy does not vary. There is no way to prevent bad people from doing bad things, but we can allow good people to act as they wish without harming others. Each may follow their own path until harm of the mind or body occurs to an unwilling recipient.
New World
There are theories on societal reformation that have been disregarded by our world. The current course of action however is not working. Economies are crashing, wars are blazing strong, disease is rampant, and the people sit by as their lives are being controlled without true representation. If things do not change through us things will change so hard and fast we may not recover. I propose a deeper look into theories like anarchy and communism that eliminate governments and currency. They instill unity through common ground and preference, these are words never heard with such ideas. When we think of anarchy we think of chaos, but that cannot be further from the truth. When we hear communism we hear conformity and dictator for that is how others have applied it, but even their understanding is flawed. The untraveled road is dark and unfamiliar but once we begin down it we see what beauty is hidden on it. Both theories mentioned only work when the people work together, and the outcome is bliss. All must be on board before the ship to a new world can sail, if not we continue towards fallout, famine, and depression. We are led into those dark worlds by governments and currency where they then abandon us. As a people we should not fear for tomorrow, if we build a world without government and currency we will prosper together. I will explain in further detail soon the benefits anarchy and communism bring.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
War
A majority of the earth’s population turns a blind eye to war, believing it is necessary, inevitable, and unpreventable. I am here to prove otherwise. I will change your mind and you will see that what is truly necessary is putting an end to war. War is too horrible and goes against the natural order of life to be inevitable. To prevent war you must join the rest of us in the movement to acquire peace. Mankind is currently at a point in which a decision must be made.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. As blatant as that may sound it is the truth. A majority of religious beliefs and individual convictions acknowledge an “end” war the likes of which no life will survive. Though this is held to be true by most no true preventative action is being taken. Some will disagree and state that we go to war to end war, but I say to you now that is like pouring gasoline on a fire, it only makes it worse. You cannot sustain peace while simultaneously preparing for war. Millions are killed in every war, and with each war the technology to kill large numbers gets better. In time a war will come where only one leader of one country needs to push one button and the earth and all life on it will no longer exist. Look back to WWII, when fat man and little boy were dropped the combined death toll exceeded two hundred thousand and their yield was 15kilotons which is the measurement of a nuclear weapon’s capacity. Since then better materials mechanisms and overall bombs have been developed; none have yet been dropped in a populated place but it is safe to say that if the first warheads killed two hundred thousand then the newer bombs will kill millions. The United States alone has weapons with yields in the megatons (1mt=1000kt) registered and archived on nuclearweaponarchive.org. If we were to measure the killing power it might look something like this: for every 15kt 100,000deaths, a 1.5mt bomb could then kill 100,000,000 people. Now no country has only one 1.5mt bomb the U.S. has 626 1.2mt, B83-0/B83-1, active bombs and many more reaching 25mt, MK-41 in production that are not listed in stockpile reports. One button is all it will take and millions of years of human progress will be wiped clean.
Put yourself on the battlefield in the shoes of a soldier in war time: you go days without food, sleep, clean water, you fear for your life as a comrade is killed beside you, bodies lie all around you stacked up and you continue on to protect your country, but what country would that be? Take one soldier from both sides of any war. The reason they give for fighting will be similar; to protect my family and country and if it wasn’t for the other soldier who felt the same way there would be no reason to fight. Now I must admit that is an over simplification of the complex workings of the war machine, but apply that to any level of power within war and the reasons the opposing sides give will be similar. When you get high enough that the reason becomes close to “we are right they are wrong, we are good they are bad” you will discover that the war is waged because of a difference of opinion that enough people on both sides are willing to kill for. Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a Marxist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Throughout history war has been the corner stone of civilizations, but where are the first civilizations now? They are gone and all but forgotten, because war does not decide who is right only who is left and as time passes and war continues no one will be. Peace may seem unrealistic, mostly because it appears no country has been able to resolve a disagreement without resorting to war. That is not entirely true however, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was able to resolve conflicts without enabling war, and such a case was the Indian independence movement. Though he sent out a recruitment letter to aid an ongoing war in it he stated that he would not kill or injure anyone. Years after the Indian independence movement began India, gained its independence from Britain by the peaceful ways of Gandhi. Gandhi’s nonviolent resolutions can be found in greater detail in Gandhi & Jesus the saving power of nonviolence by Terrence J. Rynne. Gandhi states in a blunt way how peaceful nonviolent ways would overcome war “Hitler," Gandhi said, "killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs… It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany… As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions” by this he means that if one was to willingly die as a sacrifice to the enemy then light will be shed upon the issue and more will rise to oppose the enemy. Instead Jews fought back fueling Hitler’s lies that they were monsters and wanted to harm the German people. By not retaliating you refuse to participate in war, and the enemy with no one to fight will gain nothing. The leader may say to his troops they are the enemy if you don’t kill them our nation will die, but if you don’t fight back the troops will see there is no threat and that the leader’s words are empty.
I hope you can see for yourself what I say is true, war needs to be stopped, and it is unnecessary to resort to war. War is a horrid atrocity that too many turn a blind eye upon and will consume us like a wild fire if the only action we take is to send more troops. Peace has worked before and will work again. It is difficult and takes willing people but the end is greater than that of war. War. War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.
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