I would say that capitalism is the most living in the real world belief. It is the default human nature. Christ to an American is what Man United are to us; the banner of the tribe and a force of hooligans.
I would say the religion and the spirit is on the same ground as socialism. If you're not in it for the money, then why are you here? Socialism is otherworldly you'd have to lean on the holy spirit massively for it to work even partially.
It doens't really matter. Without the organised bit religion is just egotistically making it up as you go along, in America god is synonymous with the acquisition of wealth Jesus is not a socialist there.
“The world’s now placid, featureless, and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came. The reason’s obvious. There’s nothing left to struggle for, and there are too many distractions and entertainments. Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that’s available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won’t be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!” ? Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
The sons and daughters of the resourcefully employed now find themselves in the employment of McDonald’s. But even the ordinary American doubling in size can’t keep you flipping burgers forever
In the old days it was a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it, and that somebody was near enough everybody up until the second half of the 20th century. And then there's been a dwindling number of resourcefully employed people from there.
Every job is at risk of being replaced by a joke. Relatively speaking a huge amount of people are today paid for what they'd basically be doing anyway.
Democracy itself runs the risk of electing a complete moron based on the idea that information is more important than wisdom. That a society is better informed by the many and not the few and yet we know from experience that the many are not wise per se.
Wise societies don't land on the moon, populous societies don't consider equality. The quantity of life and stability of regime we see in wise old Asia clashes with the dynamic quality of life developed in the west.
I’ve effectively answered that question with the US constitution.
It’s intelligent to judge each case on its merits and consider us all equal at birth. But is it wise? Monarchs, mysticism and the magic of rank inadequacy people seem to invent higher powers just for the sake of grovelling low themselves.
America has more power in Britain than Britain so it’s your. Plus you’re own guinea pig that tells something of what the future will be so we can prepare for it. Manage the upheaval to avoid becoming the elephant man we see in you, or so the theory goes .
You can afford women to have some power under capitalist, in some ways they’re better suited to the capitalist frenemy world. A lawsuit instead of a smack in the mouth.
Most mysterious would be a woman who doesn’t accept a special connection with the universe as life’s consolation prize. A woman blind to the things that aren’t really there.
You can realise and it won’t change a thing unless realising is itself a thing created by chickens coming home to roost. We learn by education and by mistake, education is basically foolish unless some tragedy happens. It was inevitable for prosperity to one day find itself decadent and childish and in need of a strong leader.
Destined by history I mean the physicists tell us there’s no difference between past and future anyway.
I disagree with whoever said he who does not know history is bound to repeat it because the thinker does not change the world until the time is right for the thinker to change the world. An age where intellectualism is cool because you remember hunger and violence, an age of necessity is the mother of invention.
History. I’m not saying this because they made Bran King at the end of GoT but because attitude is everything and attitude is predetermined by everything. The winners of the world wars share a common contempt for maths and science, the culture of mass distraction evolved from the children of victory prosperity. What makes an age the way that it is? Everything that came before.
Money loosely governs behind the scenes but the world goes round with little plan and understanding. We’re liable to overstate the difference our leaders make.
We never have a human body pulled out of us, the promise to do something else is the reason we don’t get any perks. Traditionally speaking. The difference between affluent men and woman become marginal over in an effeminate aristocracy that is beloved and favoured not for what it does, but for what it is.
Explains the degree of instant gratification endemic to western society. But in another way it’s pointless to live like nuclear apocalypse will happen because it’s not happened yet. Posterity has to pay off the number of times society has remortgaged itself anticipating an end that never comes; a generation encapsulated by lazy cynicism and a sneering take on everything.
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RE: Was Jesus a Socialist ?
I would say that capitalism is the most living in the real world belief. It is the default human nature. Christ to an American is what Man United are to us; the banner of the tribe and a force of hooligans.I would say the religion and the spirit is on the same ground as socialism. If you're not in it for the money, then why are you here? Socialism is otherworldly you'd have to lean on the holy spirit massively for it to work even partially.