Rancid wrote:I recall I was asking him some questions just so I could better understand is underpinning philosophies, but then he got weird on me and started acting like a bitch. I think he thought I was trying to argue something against him, when I was just asking questions.
Solarcross god all touchy recently too. FOrgot the thread
Ah so, the bad mood eh?
I think Sivad needs to work on his underpinning philosophies quite a lot. It is work. You got to read up on it. Figure it all out.
People think that well developed political philosophies that you can actually practice in your daily life is something that is easy to cultivate. It is not.
People got to work on reading the foundations of it all. How do I know I disagree with the Third Way or the Fascists? If I don't read their foundations and their underpinning philosophies.
There is some human truth to most political philosophies. The important thing is to see how one's own experiences fit into that thought process?
Some of it is obvious. Rarely are feminists going to believe men are superior to them, unless they are complete reversalists about their core thoughts.
There are a lot of nuances to all political thought.
I know exactly why @Potemkin for example is a Communist. His entire life experiences in school, family life and his own personal idyosyncrasies make him one.
I understand why someone might be far right and fascist.
Why liberals are liberals and why liberalism fits their political philosophies.
The important factor is self awareness. Where do you fit in to these wide spectrum of political thought? The underpinning philosophies?
People who have not thought deeply about the underpinning of it? Usually have not done the required work to make it solid.
Or are very young and need more time to make their life experiences make sense.
Either way @Rancid one has to be free to choose what reflects the best truth to your own life and political thought.
I happen to be a humanist. I think you got to make human beings be the purpose for a society. If you make capital the principal purpose? You wind up in consumerism and war, and eventually collapse. Because capital is ephimeral and finite and terribly limiting. But if you never think about these things? You just allow some reptilian brain thing take over and it all becomes get in a bunker and avoid the foreigners, the ones who aren't my nationality, avoid the weird this or that group.
It all falls into a sense of fear and hate and worry about losing power, money or control over something people feel entitled to?
There was an interesting exchange in the Bloomberg debate.....with Bernie and Warren. He basically said to Bloomberg? Who made you rich? You. By yourself? How about all your workers? Did that have something to do with it? Bloomberg basically feels entitled to his position in the world. That is what all the pro capitalists do....I have more money, a whole lot more money because I worked harder than anyone else. But that is patently false. Every single human has only 24 hours in one day to work and get things done. And a lot of people making a heck of a lot less than he does in financial security works very hard. But they don't get the same return. Why? That is systemic and unfortunately no one questions the ones on top.
The hard Left from the past did do that job Rancid. But they were decimated in the mid of the 20th century in the USA.
They were able to pressure enough out of the Bloomberg style billionaires a lot of concessions to the middle class and working class post WWII generation. But all those have stopped working now Rancid.
It is time for a resurgence of what worked in the past. But you got a lot of people confused about who are the oligarchs, the elite, the powerful....they are confused.
This is a class war.....it is time the USA recognizes who the true problematic people are impeding progress.
That is reality.
Don't go for asking about underpinnings of people who have failed to do some important work on themselves. Because it rattles them.
@Wellsy don't you say that about Rancid's penis. He has too many thoughts about it as it is...making his penis stainless steel is being inhumane.