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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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  • The idea that Socialism/Communism is unworkable, a utopia,is a common one. But this is ironic because it is capitalism, not socialism that trades in futures. Capitalists often attempt to foretell the future with their economic forecasts, and this is destructive - giving a false sense of security.   Marx, in fact, was not a utopian - he objected to the utopianists belief that they could win  just through the power of argument. Society for them was a battle of ideas, not a clash of material interests. Marx, on the contrary, was aware that the ideas which really grip people arise through their routine practice, not through intellectual debate. If it is to be more than idle fantasy, a radically different future has to be feasible by being discernable in the present - a potentiality.  The Capitalist system has bequeathed us an immense array of resources which can be used for the good of all, but they are currently hoarded by a wealthy elite.

    Stalinist Russia called itself Communist, but this was a propaganda tool. It is ironic that the West actually believed the propaganda, but it is perhaps not so ironic if we consider that this was to the West's advantage -painting a negative picture of Communism was a great advertisement for Capitalism during the cold war. Stalinist Russia certainly had Socialist features  in that there was nationalisation of the means of production, but this is as far as it went. It was closer to State Capitalism, but with dictatorial features and a police state. The workers were heavily exploited, there was no  democracy, a massive bureacracy, and no diffusion of power - hardly what any socialist worthy of the name would want.

     

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  • The idea that Socialism/Communism is unworkable, a utopia,is a common one. But this is ironic because it is capitalism, not socialism that trades in futures. Capitalists often attempt to foretell the future with their economic forecasts, and this is destructive - giving a false sense of security.   Marx, in fact, was not a utopian - he objected to the utopianists belief that they could win  just through the power of argument. Society for them was a battle of ideas, not a clash of material interests. Marx, on the contrary, was aware that the ideas which really grip people arise through their routine practice, not through intellectual debate. If it is to be more than idle fantasy, a radically different future has to be feasible by being discernable in the present - a potentiality.  The Capitalist system has bequeathed us an immense array of resources which can be used for the good of all, but they are currently hoarded by a wealthy elite.

    Stalinist Russia called itself Communist, but this was a propaganda tool. It is ironic that the West actually believed the propaganda, but it is perhaps not so ironic if we consider that this was to the West's advantage -painting a negative picture of Communism was a great advertisement for Capitalism during the cold war. Stalinist Russia certainly had Socialist features  in that there was nationalisation of the means of production, but this is as far as it went. It was closer to State Capitalism, but with dictatorial features and a police state. The workers were heavily exploited, there was no  democracy, a massive bureacracy, and no diffusion of power - hardly what any socialist worthy of the name would want.

     

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