A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
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Monday, December 16, 2019
" I doubt if the sensitive social conscience can survive in an " officially atheist " culture "
You can't be too hard on common people for looking for political saviors , for " magic people ". Not for nothing for many centuries they accepted THE KING as a solution to internal strife. For the past 100 hundred years self-appointed VANGUARD sectarian Marxist parties - very out of touch with THE PEOPLE - have offered them BIG BROTHER ( dictator or bureaucracy ) as described by socialist writer George Orwell in " 1984 ".
I see the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization losing passionate defenders on the Left and on the Right.
Without science and technology there can be no CIVILIZATION and without CIVILIZATION there can be no foundation for EQUALITY or social justice AND a collapse of science and technology.
Also, I doubt if the sensitive social conscience can survive in an " officially atheist " culture. 19th century OPTIMISM founded on a naive idolatry of SCIENCE & PROGRESS has been discredited by the nightmare 20th century.
For the human race LIFE on this side of paradise will always be a grim struggle for existence.
" Democratic Socialism " will just make survival a COLLECTIVE struggle. It will end forever the lonely and often pathetic atomized, alienated , individual struggle for existence- the perfect symbols of which are THE CAR THE HOUSE , THE DIPLOMA, THE JOB, THE SPOUSE and THE COFFIN .
To be sure , Democratic Socialism will not bless us with more THINGS and a higher and higher STANDARD OF LIVING ( but that is blasphemy to a dogmatic Marxist ) .
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For the past 100 hundred years self-appointed VANGUARD sectarian Marxist parties - very out of touch with THE PEOPLE - have offered them BIG BROTHER ( dictator or bureaucracy ) as described by socialist writer George Orwell in " 1984 ".
I see the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization losing passionate defenders on the Left and on the Right.
Without science and technology there can be no CIVILIZATION and without CIVILIZATION there can be no foundation for EQUALITY or social justice AND a collapse of science and technology.
Also, I doubt if the sensitive social conscience can survive in an " officially atheist " culture.
19th century OPTIMISM founded on a naive idolatry of SCIENCE & PROGRESS has been discredited by the nightmare 20th century.
For the human race LIFE on this side of paradise will always be a grim struggle for existence.
" Democratic Socialism " will just make survival a COLLECTIVE struggle. It will end forever the lonely and often pathetic atomized, alienated , individual struggle for existence- the perfect symbols of which are THE CAR THE HOUSE , THE DIPLOMA, THE JOB, THE SPOUSE and THE COFFIN .
To be sure , Democratic Socialism will not bless us with more THINGS and a higher and higher STANDARD OF LIVING ( but that is blasphemy to a dogmatic Marxist ) .