"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Ghandi
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." - Thoreau
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK
"love the life you live, live the life you love." - Bob Marley
Discourse stems from imagination.
Imagination is limited by perception
perceptions are limited by reality.
The separation of these from reality (though directly influenced by reality), illustrates the truth that all discourse is a mental construction (imagination). While science translates reality into tropes with mathematical analogies, imagination allows belief in anything. Imagination is powerful, and is instrumental in scientific progress, but the corrupted imagination of the immoral 'ghost' ignores obligation to reality (humanity, environment, etc).
Morality is a construction constantly influencing society However, unlike many human constructions, morality may hold an absolute: one that would apply to E.T., as well as humans. Only through morality can civilization exist. By further advancing morality society becomes more ideal. Economic theory will state that limited resources will always be distributed unequally among the insatiable demand of the people. BulLShiT: both global supply and individual demand are finite, so a state of fair and sustainable distribution of necessary goods is plausible, though impossible in our condition of overpopulation.
I think you're oversimplifying morals and economics. There are times where doing what is moraly sound isn't allways obvious or absolute. For example, are there times where parents should show tough love? When does sacrificing the rights of many of the many for the rights of individuals go too far? Why are the most wealthy often the least morally sound? As for your idea on even distribution, assuming it was logistically possible I still don't think it would happen. People are greedy by nature, and they will only change when forced to. The United States is a perfect example of this, we consume more than any other country, despite the fact that we are no where near the largest in size or population. American's won't give up their lifestyle simply for the benefit of the whole world. If indivdual demand where finite why do billionares try to make more money?
ReplyDeleteWow. Jeff Davis IS a Modernist--just like the Founding Fathers. We haven't talked about the 'when do you need a revolution' theme and it's a good one.
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