Neither capitalism nor communism can help us without changing, upgrading our inherently egotistic nature
Question from the Internet:
“What’s wrong with capitalism? What system should replace it? Is it really communism?”
There is nothing wrong with capitalism and there is nothing wrong with communism. They are “isms”, ideologies, philosophies.
And the systems, structures we build based on these ideologies, philosophies - and we can see how different capitalism, communism is from country to country - are also simply consequences, like pictures we see in the computer screen.
What we should focus on is where the ideologies, philosophies and their implementation comes from. And for that we need to understand our own nature, inner software, what desires, intentions, forces drive us.
Our inherent nature is “raw capitalist”.
We are driven by insatiable desires for excessive, selfish fulfillment at all cost - mostly at the expense of others. While we are all driven by the same desires, the strength, hunger of those desires, the readiness to sacrifice ourselves or ruthlessly sacrifice others to reach, obtain everything we want varies from person to person, nation to nation.
As a result the most egotistic, most ruthless, most “hungry” individuals, nations has been oppressing, exploiting, manipulating the rest - the less egotistic, less ruthless majority - through history in different forms.
In our generation it is expressed in free market capitalism, which falsely presumes that each and every person has the same opportunities - when we are all very different in the strength of our desires and our conditions - and that there are infinite opportunities, infinite resources - when the opportunities, resides are finite in a closed, globally integrated system. We can see how the “American Dream” unfolded for example...
Thus in each civilization there comes the time where the manipulation, exploitation of the majority, the inequality reaches the threshold where it becomes intolerable. And since the Natural system around us works on very different, “communistic” principles - selfless, altruistic cooperation, calculations made only for the sake of the collective - new ideologies, systems arise as a response to the inequality, ruthless exploitation that comes from allowing our egotistic nature to rule, control us.
The problem with communism is that while it agrees with Nature’s laws, it is against our inherent nature. So while initially it is accepted by the masses that are oppressed by the powerful, wealthy minority, when the communistic system is a stabilized, our inherently “raw capitalist” nature starts to rise, take over. Communist leaders start to manipulate, exploit the masses while the masses start to yearn for personal freedom, personal possessions, wanting to return to capitalism…
This produces the vicious cycles, where countries, systems helplessly swing from right to left, left to right, as we always want what we presently don’t have.
The solution is unique, unprecedented. We need to learn how to adapt our “inner raw capitalist” to Nature’s communistic system, without suppressing, erasing anything, without coercion or misleading propaganda.
For this we need a very special educational method, that can purposefully, practically teach us this.
And we have a unique opening in our generation where at least a critical mass of people already understands - based on history and our present experiences - that neither capitalism nor communism (or socialism) can help us without taking our inherent nature into calculations, without upgrading, harnessing, adapting that inherent nature through positive motivation, where people willingly join the process.