Acquisition VS Access. James Hicks January 2015 The world must make a philosophical shift back to cooperation. As long as we embrace erroneous models of mans nature this will not happen. Ironically, the motivation to reject voluntary cooperative ideas, and lable them as Marxist etc., is actually the confession of ones own irrational selfishness of non-cooperation. This is because the politico-economic structure keeps us divided. Money divides our earning capacity. These are the irreplaceable hours of our life spent in earning and acquisition. There is no other survival alternative. As such, In this structure I do agree with conservative property rights: I earned it. You didnt and have no metaphysical claim on my energy. However, this is not a model I can support. It is metaphysically unsustainable. We are seeing the repercussions all around us, whether social or environmental. What most do not understand is that it is in our best interest to be our brothers keepers. This is reflected as our nature in human behavioural evolution. (See Robert Sapolsky Stanford). As long as a money system exists it pulls us out of our natural order and imposes an unnatural relationship to other men. It is an artificial construct. A default construct, forced upon generation after generation, where it appears as an axiom to mans life. It is not. In this situation, politico-economics also imposes a set of ethics: This is MINE that is YOURS. Because money is someones property at some moment of circulation, and because it is the socially agreed upon medium of survival; to take it by any force or manipulation whether government or not is immoral. So in this situation I am a conservative. However, I do not endorse this system. It is what exists now. As such, the conservative view is the most ethical, under the circumstances, but it is not a system proper to man. The ethics of a situation are metaphysically manifest in the moments of its occurance. Thus employing a Robin Hood methodology, by any means, must and will hamper social progress towards egalitarianism. This initiates use of force. Force divides us. Symbioism is a philosophical construct that gently moves us back to our proper nature of mutual support. The kind of support care and compassion Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and all the great teachers spoke of. We all recognize it but as long as we hold property force is necessary. There is a teaching in sales: One does not buy a drill to own a drill. They buy a drill to make a hole. Weve artificially attached our self-worth to that drill, its color, brand and style. We think owning the drill, the car. house etc. gives us stature, and we attach our self-esteem to these things- many of which have no utilitarian purpose whatsoever. We interpret this as a measure of our wealth. True wealth is not aquisition but ACCESS to shelter, clean water, food and medicine, companionship, accomplishments, and confident self-actualization. To define wealth any other way is an inversion of mans nature and ethics. In order to have a true democracy and an egalitarian society we must shift to an access based resource economy not a competition/reward model built on resource scarcity. We must vote for ideas derived from science and technology that rationally increase access while preserving resources. We can not vote for people and ideologies -particularly if money is involved. This process extracts us from the realm of reason, and deposits us in an undulating quagmire of emotions. Emotions that can never be unilaterally appeased. Wealth can only metaphysically be defined as access. It is not defined as aquisition. This is an inversion of mans proper nature. So it is crucial that while money exists we begin to shift more towards volunteerism to help our brothers and sisters and focus on scientific and technical solutions for mans problems. Ideas solve problems not politicians, threats, force and guns. This requires honest introspection to our actual needs, and a maturity to step up and out of the consumer paradigm we drug ourselves with and fake our self-esteem through. We must grow up and realize mans nature is to live in harmonious relationships of creation, exploration and conservation. Not aquisition.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:10:05 +0000
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