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CarbonCopy's avatar

Additionally I always hear oh we can't do something like this it would be chaos and it is more important to rebuild the system. As if you could fix a historically corrupted system. That's like killing one ant and expecting the ant hill to just go away!

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"Historically corrupted" I like that, in the same sense as I like "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." But really, none of these schemes are ever conceived with a "pure" heart. Everything since Plato's *Republic* has been conceived to continue Platonic cosmic doctrines of totalitarian aristocracy and submission to others' will. Even Marxism reveals a certain continuity with Marx's own German Lutheran upbringing and prejudices that influence his revolutionary theory and situate it in time and place.

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CarbonCopy's avatar

The truth as you can't not get "born into it"! Everyone had or some have parents and a place/environment in which they have been "engraved". Can't get away from it without serious introspect!

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