reply to post by Rumpelstiltskin
Totally with you now my friend.
I think essentially we can sum it up with two things:
a) That people are generally selfish and will attempt to squeeze every last drop out of the system by "betraying" others in order to get ahead.
and
b) Perhaps more sinisterly the poem :
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
Rationally speaking humanity would advance if we all worked together. We would advance not only against any oppression, but in new realms of science,
technology and spirituality.
However the nature of man is intrinsically selfish. Cooperation will never work, unless a greater goal is found; and certainly cannot work in the
mundane long term.
Am I on the right tracks?