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Theologian Paul Tillich warned that, eventually, all the bonds of original, organic community will be sacrificed in favor of a free, capitalistic society.
In the politics of our capitalist society, the meaning of creative life is sucked away with the competitive drive. The corporate media controls the message because of pure profit-interest.
The process becomes independent of source of life's core meaning. Held together only by economic needs and purposes, human community disintegrates into isolated individuals whose relationships are defined by merciless competition.
Social justice and ethics die when competition is at its most merciless.
Curiously, I see the emergence of the substance of Professor Tillich's warnings right here at Daily Kos these past few months.
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by Iddybud on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 10:11:15 AM PDT
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by anonyMoses on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 10:41:05 AM PDT
IMHO, both competition and capitalism have been perverted. Competition into conflict and capitalism into the behavior of a predatory cannibalistic pack rat.
What I would argue is that while trade and exchange is the dominant behavior by which humans get what they need to be sustained, predation survives as a sort of default in case the social structure required for exchange breaks down.
On the other hand, perhaps these modes are gender specific. Perhaps males are naturally predators whose instincts have to be modified in the interest of succesfully reproducing themselves. That is, they have to learn to give as well as take.
How do you tell a predator from a protector? The predator will eat you sooner rather than later.
by hannah on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 02:54:23 AM PDT
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