- Sep 29, 2016
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I’ve kind of come to the conclusion of this political opinion, and I was wondering if anybody here could challenge this opinion, or if anybody would want to suggest a solution to these problems, especially in light of the growth of globalization.
For one, while Marx was wrong on many things, I don’t think he was wrong when it comes to how Capitalism would eventually fall. Marx posited that Capitalism would only produce innovation, which leads to more efficient means of production. I.e., the replacement of the worker with technology. This in turn reduces the demand and supply of skilled labor, and labor in general, while leading to a much more concrete divide between the workers and the employers, with the wages of workers going down as the rich get richer. This cycle inevitably leads to horrible living conditions and standards, which leads to a collapse of society through either functioning or mass revolts, which Capitalism can’t function in.
For two, another way I see it as self-destructive is the feeding into passions through the services, products, and marketing that Capitalism supplies. Many people seek to find out why our society is so broken - why families are so broken, why there is a collapse in religiosity; why divorce is so high, why adultrey is so high, why abortion is so high - why why why. I think that a massive part is Capitalism itself, which feeds into our passions. Why do we sex everywhere? Movies, commercials, billboards, etc. The internet, a product of Capitalist society, makes voyerism an act of booting up the computer and typing in an address. What about drug usage? Delicious and addictive foods like fast food and sodas and caffeine? The projection of perfect people, which forces teenagers and women especially to have psychologically ill perceptions of what it means to be skinny, what it means to be beautiful, what it means to be sexy. Superman’s dead by Our Lady Peace sums up this specific problem pretty well. The comforts of technology leads to laziness and the lack of discipline; who needs to even leave their room when they got the internet?
And these pleasures work because man is a fallen creature, prone to temptations that offer immediate gratification - at least, those who follow the broad path and not the narrow path. These products of passion induction only lead to pure Sodom and Gomorrah - a society of animals. Is the introduction of homosexuality as normative really that surprising, when immoral application of sexual gratification was introduced by our society as normal by Capitalism and it’s products? Why should homosexuality not be seen as good if adultrey is not seen as bad? And Capitalism only further cements the process by advertising “Pride month” everywhere, further feeding into our passions and earning more money. Why should I follow religion at all when it mandates audacious requirements that are so counter intuitive to our pleasure society? Why do you think so many churches - most noteably, Catholicism - have eased the ascetic requirements put on the lay people? Simple - to prevent apostasy and prevent the fishes from leaving the net, in light of our comfort society pushing hedonism, the opposite goal which religions like Christianity, religions like Islam, religions like Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. wish to accomplish - restriction of passions for some greater goal.
Thus, society collapses.
Thoughts?
For one, while Marx was wrong on many things, I don’t think he was wrong when it comes to how Capitalism would eventually fall. Marx posited that Capitalism would only produce innovation, which leads to more efficient means of production. I.e., the replacement of the worker with technology. This in turn reduces the demand and supply of skilled labor, and labor in general, while leading to a much more concrete divide between the workers and the employers, with the wages of workers going down as the rich get richer. This cycle inevitably leads to horrible living conditions and standards, which leads to a collapse of society through either functioning or mass revolts, which Capitalism can’t function in.
For two, another way I see it as self-destructive is the feeding into passions through the services, products, and marketing that Capitalism supplies. Many people seek to find out why our society is so broken - why families are so broken, why there is a collapse in religiosity; why divorce is so high, why adultrey is so high, why abortion is so high - why why why. I think that a massive part is Capitalism itself, which feeds into our passions. Why do we sex everywhere? Movies, commercials, billboards, etc. The internet, a product of Capitalist society, makes voyerism an act of booting up the computer and typing in an address. What about drug usage? Delicious and addictive foods like fast food and sodas and caffeine? The projection of perfect people, which forces teenagers and women especially to have psychologically ill perceptions of what it means to be skinny, what it means to be beautiful, what it means to be sexy. Superman’s dead by Our Lady Peace sums up this specific problem pretty well. The comforts of technology leads to laziness and the lack of discipline; who needs to even leave their room when they got the internet?
And these pleasures work because man is a fallen creature, prone to temptations that offer immediate gratification - at least, those who follow the broad path and not the narrow path. These products of passion induction only lead to pure Sodom and Gomorrah - a society of animals. Is the introduction of homosexuality as normative really that surprising, when immoral application of sexual gratification was introduced by our society as normal by Capitalism and it’s products? Why should homosexuality not be seen as good if adultrey is not seen as bad? And Capitalism only further cements the process by advertising “Pride month” everywhere, further feeding into our passions and earning more money. Why should I follow religion at all when it mandates audacious requirements that are so counter intuitive to our pleasure society? Why do you think so many churches - most noteably, Catholicism - have eased the ascetic requirements put on the lay people? Simple - to prevent apostasy and prevent the fishes from leaving the net, in light of our comfort society pushing hedonism, the opposite goal which religions like Christianity, religions like Islam, religions like Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. wish to accomplish - restriction of passions for some greater goal.
Thus, society collapses.
Thoughts?
