As a first step. Really, it’s the easiest step along that path.
The hard part is building the new order among the ashes of the revolution. The leaders of the revolution will in all likelihood want to claim the spoils of victory for themselves. Who could blame them? It’s human nature.
Selfishness is not “human nature”. Is it in the coal miners nature to have black lung? Humans are a product of their environment and our current environment rewards the most selfish behavior it can so you are gonna have a highly selfish population. Capitalism has made us sick but there are those of us who can do better. The selfish human nature you have been taught is a lie meant to justify current systems and dismiss any alternative. Something incredibly important I have learned as a history student is that humans have a great capacity to come together under adversity. It is our greatest strength. Civilizations do not form under abundant conditions, they form when we are forced to work together for a collective good. We can cooperate, we can work together on massive scales for the benefit of all.
Are there any evidence that human selfishness is not innate? I think almost all organisms are selfish, except in the case of parent-child relations sometimes and collective animals, like ants.
Let me put it another way. Selfishness is no more human nature than cooperation is. If we can build a civilization based on rewarding selfishness we can build one off rewarding cooperation.
Even collective animals have to fight against selfishness. Worker bees detect and kill upstart queens. Human cells are being destroyed all the time (apoptosis). Cancer is the result when that mechanism fails.
As a first step. Really, it’s the easiest step along that path.
The hard part is building the new order among the ashes of the revolution. The leaders of the revolution will in all likelihood want to claim the spoils of victory for themselves. Who could blame them? It’s human nature.
Selfishness is not “human nature”. Is it in the coal miners nature to have black lung? Humans are a product of their environment and our current environment rewards the most selfish behavior it can so you are gonna have a highly selfish population. Capitalism has made us sick but there are those of us who can do better. The selfish human nature you have been taught is a lie meant to justify current systems and dismiss any alternative. Something incredibly important I have learned as a history student is that humans have a great capacity to come together under adversity. It is our greatest strength. Civilizations do not form under abundant conditions, they form when we are forced to work together for a collective good. We can cooperate, we can work together on massive scales for the benefit of all.
Are there any evidence that human selfishness is not innate? I think almost all organisms are selfish, except in the case of parent-child relations sometimes and collective animals, like ants.
Let me put it another way. Selfishness is no more human nature than cooperation is. If we can build a civilization based on rewarding selfishness we can build one off rewarding cooperation.
Even collective animals have to fight against selfishness. Worker bees detect and kill upstart queens. Human cells are being destroyed all the time (apoptosis). Cancer is the result when that mechanism fails.