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The fine line between needing to be social and needing solitude.

Goatworshiper

Does anyone else have problems with this balancing act? If not I'm just getting this off my chest.

I feel odd when I'm with people, without being insulting towards other humans I find they frustrate the life out of me. I find people just don't really have much valid to say. At the moment I'm sick of hearing people being demonised for claiming benifits, by people who claim working tax credits, child tax credits etc. I'm not in a position were I personally need to claim benifits, however I'm not into the demonisation of the ill and unemployed. It's not only this issue, people just being wide of the mark on lots of topics, science denialist's tend to be particulary frustrating.

I'd like to get on with people a lot more, I enjoy being social (within my small circle of friends). But I just find people stupid, ignorant and inhumane. I'm generally misanthropic and tend to upset people quite frequently by telling them that human life is cheap and explaining about a history of slave labour, concentration camps etc. Well I say upset, I think it just annoys people as It questions thier humanitarian ideals. I suppose thier lies my problem, hypocritical humanist whom don't see that they treat humans particulary badly. For instance they want to save the world and help African children, but have a poor attitude to work colleages.

I went to Auschwitz recently and people seem perplexed that I didn't get upset from the visit. I find it very odd: when I here people talking about how they think other people should be dealt with for not working (and not conforming to thier belief system), I can easily see how something as big as Nazi Germany could escalate. I find it so odd that people think that work is the only important thing in life. Surely there has to be more to life than self regulated slavery?

Today I cut my grass with mp3 player on and it was just bliss. Solitude and the world blanked out.

Wierdly, I still crave some social activities even tho people frustrate the life out of me. 

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  • True Colors: Socalism in short is from each according to ability, to each according to need. People give according to skills, interests, and naturally take what they require for wellbeing - the real needs, which in a socialist society would not be manipulated because spin, dishonesty, corruption, advertising, propaganda would no longer exist. This might sound utopian, but everything is utopian which does not currently exist. The NHS was once utopian!.

    Once exploitation and alienation are removed from work, once people are really free, we will see what people are really capable of. All humans are born with curiosity, a desire to manipulate objects and create - born with imagination and a desire to be active. Only people with severe mental illness, brain damage etc lack these desires. And of course our society creates apathy in many people, meaning many people would rather not work - not work, that is, in our current society because of exploitation and low pay.

    On the subject of taxes, people on benefits actually pay tax too. And people have rights independent of work - rights that are not earnt, but are based upon being human. Do you think poverty is acceptable?

    Money is a Capitalist tool built upon abstractions. It is not based on concrete resources. It is distributed in an anarchical fashion, and money can even be created from thin air. Maybe eventually we won't use money anymore.  The rich will pay through the taxes they owe but currently avoid paying through tax havens etc.

    Goatsworshiper: communism was much abused as a concept by stalinism. Genuine communism would actually mean prosperity for all. THat is to say, poverty would be eradicated.

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  • True Colors: Socalism in short is from each according to ability, to each according to need. People give according to skills, interests, and naturally take what they require for wellbeing - the real needs, which in a socialist society would not be manipulated because spin, dishonesty, corruption, advertising, propaganda would no longer exist. This might sound utopian, but everything is utopian which does not currently exist. The NHS was once utopian!.

    Once exploitation and alienation are removed from work, once people are really free, we will see what people are really capable of. All humans are born with curiosity, a desire to manipulate objects and create - born with imagination and a desire to be active. Only people with severe mental illness, brain damage etc lack these desires. And of course our society creates apathy in many people, meaning many people would rather not work - not work, that is, in our current society because of exploitation and low pay.

    On the subject of taxes, people on benefits actually pay tax too. And people have rights independent of work - rights that are not earnt, but are based upon being human. Do you think poverty is acceptable?

    Money is a Capitalist tool built upon abstractions. It is not based on concrete resources. It is distributed in an anarchical fashion, and money can even be created from thin air. Maybe eventually we won't use money anymore.  The rich will pay through the taxes they owe but currently avoid paying through tax havens etc.

    Goatsworshiper: communism was much abused as a concept by stalinism. Genuine communism would actually mean prosperity for all. THat is to say, poverty would be eradicated.

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