An Evening on the Fireside

An Evening on the Fireside with David 47
This is going to be a relatively short Evening on the Fireside. There was a bit of a conversation going on a week or so ago about communism versus capitalism, or should I say communalism versus free marketierism.

The core conversation between the two who started it was moreso focused on human nature and rather a supporting you brothers and sisters in humanity is better than simply letting every person strive on their own. Guy 1 said it was, Girl 2 said it wasn’t, Guy 3 jumped in and said communism is better on paper, capitalism is better economically (wide scale), and how the Federal Reserve is a communistic barrier put in the hands of the private sector. Or atleast that’s how it came across.
Girl 1 said capitalism and working for oneself was human nature, Guy 1 said that that was just because that’s the culture we, as Americans, have grown in, but it was NOT, in fact, human nature. He also pointed out that the communism seen in nations such as Russia, North Korea and whatnot, is not the true communism. This I cannot speak on.

Meh, my contributions to the conversations were mainly that communalism in a nation-wide scale was ineffective because human nature is bettering something, but that nation-wide brotherhood is far too abstract in their benefits. This is why small-scale communalism such as those seen on Kibbutz’s and Amish community, where everyone pulls together for the better of the groups, are successful. People can see the benefit of putting the group before the individual, so… they do it.
I mean, we talk trash about people behind their backs, when we are physically seeing the consequences of our actions, rather good or bad, it makes it real.
Of course, that’s not the only thing. A lot of it is, why should I work to support someone who isn’t? But that’s the obvious. Yes, I used that as a noun.
Also, whether you’re acting within the parameters of communism or capitalism, power is, always has been, and always will be a capitalist commodity, a good to be had. I won’t go into this at the moment.

Really, the reason why I chose this as this week’s Evening is because Guy 1 ended the conversation with something along the lines of Materialism is stripping us of our humanity..
To put it another way, Materialism causes an erosion of our humanity.
As sad as it may be, Our humanity leads to the effect of materialism.
This is a point I never got to steer the conversation to this direction, but I will close the week out with a short comment on it.

What is our humanity? I would imagine it is what separates humans from animals. Typically this is known as free will. Hmm, where was I going to go with this?
Meh, it’s getting too late. Basically, materialism is exclusively human, thus an aspect of humanity, not a dissolver of it..