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2020-05-27T07:58:47+08:00
In response to the charge that anarchist utopias are not possible due
to the 'inherent selfishness of human nature'.
i am very sorry comrade, but i cannot really see what you're getting at
i don't have any issues with anarchism because i do my best not to
exploit people if i can be consciously aware of it
as far as i am concerned, human nature has no real alethic component,
and only a deontic element --- there is no unified causal force upon
which all humans draw in order to access their humanity
what we /are/ able to do is reason about what standards of humanity we
would like, and start questing towards them, and if we do not need those
elements anymore, then i suggest we dispense with them, and come up with
some better criteria of assessment
the fact is people are either humans or not, and humans do exist, and
their nature has nothing to do with any of the scanty natural scientific
evidence about how people lived in early class society
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i am not pessimistic about anything in reality whatsoever. i am letting
the refreshing waves of perceptual experience arrive through to me with
absolutely no resistance, ambivalence, or reluctance.
i am fundamentally a happy, contented, and optimistic person, and i
suggest that you're going to have to comport yourself to me and my
attitude to reality
personally, and i hope this doesn't offend you, but i do not think it is
possible to actually 'know' or 'prove' that people will adopt
psychopathic manipulative behaviour when they are suffering from poverty
in fact i think that is not even a thought experiment or anything
coherent in language whatsoever---like Marx said in Kapital, robinson
crusoe was an Victorian accountant stranded on an island, and even had a
slave, like any good Victorian burgher.