RE: The Dark Side of Capitalism
The right doesnt run the show nor does the left. It is the bankers who run the sow.
You can't even blame the banksters, they haven't existed 1000 years ago but it was still the same thing going on under the Church.
Yeah as soon as the Church lost most of it's power, suddently it's not as threatening anymore.
So Decentralization is imperative if we want to live in a free world, centralized power is literally like cancer.
Free market people want to espouse the virtues of capitalism like it is nirvana.
No I don't think you understand it, I think it is a dynamic cycle of life & death sort of like how easter philosophers, Buddhists viewed the world.
Things have to constantly change for us to have freedom. Whenever you "settle" for any ideology, it eventually corrupts itself and it becomes too comfortable and entrenched with itself. I don't think that is a good thing.
How many take the time to consider this?
Not many, only people who genuinely want to see the truth. And it takes integrity to admit if you are wrong which I did, so I don't have to live with contradictions in my head anymore.
It takes courage too. Going against deeply held beliefs is not easy. We often have a part of our identity tied up into that belief system. I understand where you are coming from. ...I had the same "talk" with myself a couple years ago about my political outlook which was derived in large part to my upbringing. Like you I didnt suddenly jump into the other camp but stepped back and question the entire system.
I didn't went from deeply held beliefs to something else. I already knew this, I just tried to rationalize and lump together 2 contradictory things. I should have been critical and selective about certain items. Perhaps that is the propaganda, to try to put something evil in the good basket to mask itself.
It's also a psychological barrier in some way. People feel they have a vested interest in being right and in a social context not losing face.