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title: What Interpersonal Communism Looks Like
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2020-03-06T00:33:00Z
From my understanding of my own mental health, I believe maximising the
time you spend in a mental state of flow is critical to surviving the
ravages of capitalism.
Also, having a close group of friends with whom you feel safe discussing
negative emotions and judgements is also required.
Ideally, there should be quite a lot of praise for how hard you try, and
how much effort you put into contributing to communal affairs.
I personally love smiling and laughing, but I know this doesn't always
equate to happiness and contentment for all people, although, I believe,
culturally it is a good measure of the health of your person in the
West.
I think one of the greatest factors that contributes to apathy, narrow
mindedness, fatuous levels of selfishness and obsession with immediate
sensory gratification in the West is oppressive forms of childhood
punishment and arbitrary forms of collective punishment. I think this
points squarely at the need for the abolition of Work and capitalist
Schooling.
I am a moral realist, and also a moral absolutist, and I believe that
there are some moral behaviours which are correct for most people. This
would be a reasonable level of empathy and capacity for love and wonder
for other humans.