lol is this some kind of fucking joke thats the worst analogy i've ever heard...im sorry but it is...ants arent equal theres a queen and a hierchal structure dependent upon size(altho thats more out of survival), ants are slaves who serve an undeserving queen... heres a much better analogy tics/mites are free, people are equal(inherently) i dunno i think i'd rather be a human
First of all, among tics, there is far less deviation in anatomy, behavior, needs and abilities among individuals than there are among humans. If everybody is inherently equal in needs and abilities, I'd like to see you throw a 105 mph fast ball, or why don't you be the one to tell the 6'4", 320lb construction worker down the street that he is going to have to start eating the same amount of food as his 105lb horse jockey friend. People are equal under the law because that is neccesary for freedom. It isn't in the constitution because the framers believed in communism. Also, what does the takeover of the German society in the 1930s by a group called the National Socialist party, who promised equality and protection from the "evil capitalist jews", have to do with making an argument against freedom of speech? One of the things they did, before they started getting reeeeeally nasty, was take away the people's freedom of speech. Also, as a side note, there is a button called the edit button. If you want to add something after making a post I reccomend that you use it, multiple posts are annoying.
We aren't inherently equal....... no man is created equal, that was a lie the framers made up, I'd live in a society of total equality, it'd be nice to know with my inherent gifts I could bail if I decided against it, freedom on the other hand, freedom lets the weak die, at least with equality everyone is still walking upright when the shit hits the fan...
Where ...be a dear and let me in on the secret......... every where I look is filled with judgemental totally biased fashist pigs....they are so afraid that guilty people will go free they imprison all people......it is frusterating..... anyway...yeah I got ya.....< in my mind right?> yeah........ I am better at just being me and not delving to deep in that mucky muck
yes Freedom prevails... despite some of us are a lil snappy crappy in the process-smirk Guess who quoted this : Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer
obvously we arent all equal in height and character, but we are equal in potential, if u dedicate ur life practicing baseball u can learn to throw a baseball that fast...and what the hell are u talking about i didnt say we have to eat the same portions of food, or anything like that, we are equal inherently(in terms of potential, short people can play basketball, tall people can ride horses, maybe taller people are more valued in a particular sport because in basketball for example, u be closer to the basket, but thats a man made game, whos purpose accomodates people largen in stature. That has nothing to do with equality, and u know it. All Im asking for is equal opportunity and a safety net for those who fail...thats my interpretation of equality. u said people are equal under law b/c thats necesary for freedom, i disagree i feel freedom recognized under the law because freedom in an important aspect of equality. I mean is social freedom not called equality... also I SERIOUSLY hope u arent calling the NAzis Communsits, that has to be the most ignorant shit ive ever heard, germany under the weinmar repuclic was communist that was during their depression, they interpreted the depression(resulting from WWI)as communist failure, and thats how the capitalist, christian zealot, nazi Hitler came to power. , no one ever called the jews capitalist, r u a fucking moron!!! "Hitler believed that the Jews were involved with Communists in a joint conspiracy... Like Henry Ford, Hitler claimed that 75% of all Communists were Jews" "The Jewish and Communist threat is one and the same" "Hitler blamed Communists and Jews for all their problems..." www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhitler.htm www.studyworld.com/newsite/ReportEssay/ Biography/HistoricalFigures%5CAdolf_Hitler-322260.htm www.essaydepot.com/essayme/3281/index.php in germany there were 2 parties that had a shot the vast minority COmmunist weinmars or the nazis (who were corporate fascists, they privated a huge chunk of germanys industry once federalized by the weinmars, moreso the combined privitization efforts since then(partially for their borderline socialist stance since then but thats irrelevant))but if u were jewish during that time which party wouuld side with? Jews were throughout history labeled communist, look at how many communsoit leaders were jewish(despite their renunciation of all religion) communist cant be religious zealots which is another reason why hitler couldnt have been communsits, in addition to the fact that he hated communists and the ideas of equality among everyone... i guess he could argue socialist was in their name but we both know they were fervent capitalists, they were also liberatarian in ways, economically they dramatically lowered taxes, socially if u were a german person they granted u a lot of freedom, like their lowering the age of marraige laws,and reforming the formerly socialist business restrictions, even women benifited were given more freedom (and rights in terms of working)(nazis, however, considered german jews to be sub human, so in their minds they were exempt) THATS FREEDOM WITHOUT EQUALITY another example is slave socities no income tax, low sales tax, loose laws regarding all humans(blacks werent considered humun (in their minds only 3/5)) again FREEDOM WITHOUT EQUALITY...ideally u need both, so i applaud all freedom voters, thats half the battle the other half is equality thats ANARCO-SYNDICALISM i also appologise for my earlier comment if that sounded condescending...but it wasnt a good analogy(u know that when u wrote it)
There is no problem with being different in an egalitarian society. In fact, an egalitarian society encourage individuality. In an egalitarian society, you get education = You are able to create your own opinions on life, existence, society etc. etc. In a class society, you work 16 hours and day and remain stupid and uneducated for the rest of your life. In an egalitarian society, you are able to take piano lessons, workout in the gym, and expand your individuality for free, and you can do what kids normally do when they are kids, but in a class society most people use their childhood doing dirty jobs. An example is in India. In India, there are 5 year old policemen. No kidding. Egalitarian societies encourage individuality, but class society make us all robots to the upper class.
Freedom! The freedom of Civilized Man to express our mass-psychosis is essential. Civilized Man must be FREE to submissively surrender his freedom for the security and authority of Hierarchical Civilization. Hierarchical Civilization is a submissive impulse that can NOT be resisted, because it represents the latent homo-sexuality of Civilized Man's effeminate fears. Our effeminate death-fear inspired by the deadly stresses and dislocations caused by the last retreat of the Glacial Ice Caps ten thousand years ago. Ten thousand years of submissively bending-over to the alpha-male father-figure of authority and security is a symbolic self-castration that can NOT be repressed without repressing the homo-erotic Freedom of Civilized Man. Civilized Man must be Free to slavishly express the homo-erotic anal-retentive impulses of Capitalism, and the anal-retentive impulses of Owning, Controlling and Aquiring. The desire of the LEFT to enforce by law an Egalitarian society is simplistic, as it only represses our symptoms without tackling their roots. Our attempts to repress the free homo-erotic expression of the sado-masochistic symptoms of our Civilization merely delays our eventual healing. Such a repressive approach will always, in the end, fail. Fail, because it merely papers-over the psychotic mass delussions of ourselves as a 'free people' engaged in the 'free market' of the 'free enterprise system', and does nothing to expose the psychotic mass denials of our Slavish psycho-sexual impulses. In other words, it does nothing to bring the neurotic roots of our mass-psychosis up from the depths of our collective-unconscious out into the open.
a little off topic, but true... all the greatest artists(since the rise of communism) were communists, kahlo, dali, ernst, virtually the entire surrealist /dada movement, rivera, pollock(so ive heard) and an assload of abstract expressionists, theres a reason artists are usually socialist egalitarians(be theatrical artists, music, or visual), because socialism rewards creativity, whereas capitalism hides it on the corner of 4th st and 6th ave...or 12 st and 8th ave(where there are some of the greatest artists alive)...creativity is rewarded greatly in egalitarianism, cuba for example if u can make it into an artists guild or union ur set 4 life, wheras in capitalism most artists and creative people struggle (and dont give me that talent,merit bullshit, we both know very few artists make it big during their lifetime, its after their gone that they are apreciated... and if u can set a definition of freedom as free from all initial (unprompted coercion), then why wont u accept our definition of equal oppertunity with a safety net so no one goes hungry? i havent once argued freedom results in anarchy, then people would murder each other without consequence, and steal, and whatnot b/c i respect ur definition of no initial coersion, so accept our logical and valid definition of equality...no extremities...
Picasso was an ardent Communist, and Artistic Freedom is right-on topic. Picasso, however, lived his entire life under Capitalism, and enjoyed the cozy effeminate comforts of materialism. This is why Picasso's art was highly derivitive of ancient Egalitarian societies. In these societies your entire life was a work of art. Everything you used was a creation of your own hands and your own individual spirit. Unlike Civilized societies, in Egalitarian societies there was no alienation between you and your work. That historical discovery of our evolving alienation was the entire basis for Marx's critique of Capitalism. Marx and Engels however, like all Civilized Men, are incapable of creating real Egalitarian societies. Unconsciously we know this, which is why Communism, amongst the Civilized, hysterically and hypocritically repress the Free expression of Art. They must repress it, because the Artistic vision explores and reveals our Un-conscious preoccupations. Artists are always a danger to the psychotic delussions of the status-quo. Just look at the Conservative attack on Hollywood during the last election. Like Communists, Conservatives are fearful of having their delussions exposed.
like most people, u fail to draw the distinction btwn communism, and authoritarianism with communist economic policies, i can easily say capitalism represses freedom (iraq, suadi arabia, uzbekistan, columbia) but thats just authoritarian capitalism.Very few current socialist countreis are authoritarian. Most artsits trhive under communism, have u ever seen the briliance of modern dutch art... many artists chose to live in communes, the only existing anarco-syndicalist societies(a form of socialism), and there their work tends to thrive...how could this be, they are socialist, its egalitarian? because that repression mumbo jumbo is bullshit, i think ur getting communism,socialism,marxism confused with stalinism, maoism, authoritarianism (not to sound condenscending at all). picasso u could argue was a hypocrite, but Kandinsky, and Tanguy werent, have u ever heard afro-cuban jazz its amazing!!!! or seen a Chagall print...culture (the arts) is rich everywhere, socialist/communist countries are no different, there is some censorship come places, yes, just like in most capitalist countries, but the biggest difference is under socialism/communism, the artist is acknowledged as being as important as the banker, or doctor.
Like it or Not; Art created by Civilized Artists, whether Communist or Capitalist, will always reflect the anal-retentive impulse of Civilization. Marx can NO more recreate the healthy Wholistic Communal spirit of the destroyed Egalitarian societies than he could heal his own repressed Civilized personality. Without first coming to grips with the roots of our effeminate fears and the sado-masochistic homo-erotic impulseof Civilized Man, Marxist Communism merely perpetuates our collective psychotic delussions. True, Art created in Communal scenes today interests me and even inspires me. However, even in the most intentionally Anarchistic of Communal scenes the Art will continue to reflect the impulsive reactions of our lingering repression. And will continue to do so untill we face the roots of our psychosis. The continuing Afro-Latino spirit in Cuban music does contradict our accepted notions of their revolution. So do my friends who have visited there and talked to the people dancing in the streets of Cuba. Apparently most Cubans are very happy that the oppressive White Castillian poperty owners have been chased out.
i think i understood most of that...with what i could understand, i can live with...but there are many more exceptions... Borris Kantor Roman Vishniac Robert Brackman Pava Tchelitchew Saul Baizerman Uugene Berman Louise Nevelson Moses Soyer all amazing artists who thrived under communist russia, except brackman i think he was georgian(still ussr) most under khrushchev, who was a big fan of art, and restored a deal of freedom to the russian people (artists included)