The British did a 'divide and rule'. Religion was the tool used to do the division 75 years ago at the time of separation. Religion is the same tool used today to divide the country internally and manufacture hate and consent for war.
If you're not free, the world isn't free.
Greed finds a way to get too big. However, it is self-destructive and therefore short-lived. Greed is so selfish, it eats itself alive till there is one last malignant tumor cell standing, and with him ends the entire disease, sometimes only to reappear a few decades later when old memories have faded and the wisdom wasn't fully taught and/or learned. Like a body fights a foreign body, humanity collectively needs to isolate, acknowledge, and curb the evil of greed. Humanity will eventually evolve to learn this important lesson and make sure this mistake isn't repeated.
We don't want to miss anything. Completeness is important to us. But our minds are also moving too fast, constantly navigating 'the thought tree' branch to branch like a wild monkey. We let our attention slide from what's in front of us to what's playing inside our heads. I hope we all embrace letting ourselves slip into our own thoughts. Thank goodness movies can be paused and rewinded, I only wish I could've done the same in my engineering classes.
Before we talk about the what or the how, we must talk more about the why. I have some thoughts that I’ll share, but it doesn’t matter for we can collectively decide and do anything we want.
I say, welcome to the party! Grab some snacks, we'll figure it out together.
Your friend is making you insecure for just being yourself. He is a manipulative bully, not your friend.
I've had similar experiences - endless tiring bad faith discussions. I sincerely believe market socialism is a realistic step we can take to improve human condition, but they seem convinced against it and hell bent on 'revolution'. It's clearly a cult with group think, they've arrived at their conclusions by reading theory, not from personal experience, self awareness, empathy & logic.
Hey, I've argued this exact stance with my Marxist brothers a few times here and here. They seem sure of revolution and against market socialism. Anyways, I've created a community for us to talk more about it here - Collective Cake
And what a coincidence today being a Collective Cake day!
Haha, and if you look in the diametrically opposite direction, you will find God! And clearly, God will kick the Devil's ass, always has and always will! PS: this coming from an anti-thiest
Exactly, that's another thing that I've learned recently - don't lose your shit when things seem to be falling apart - one, it's a system much bigger than your individual control, but two, and more importantly, those things tend to self correct for the better, like action-reaction, like a wave, or ying-yang and duality of life. It's quite liberating to see this way at the bigger picture.
I'm chaotic good. Balanced haphazardly and without order.