human beings are social creatures, we are animals that go about in packs…
look at how we house ourselves… we don’t live, for the most part, apart
from each other, no, we live in houses very close to each other…and we live
in condo’s and apartments in which we live in very close proximity to each other…
in my condo, my neighbor’s door is about 9 feet from me…and that is farther
apart then some places I’ve seen…
we live close to each other and we spend our days in constant contact
with other humans… we lunch with each other and go out at night with
each other and we go to bars to mingle with each other…
in fact it isn’t healthy for humans to isolate themselves from other humans,
to maintain our mental health, we must stay in contact with other humans…
and our social structure is built to keep humans in contact with each other…
we have bars and shopping malls and resorts and restaurants
and events like musical and sporting events where we hang with 20 thousand of
our best friends…
our political structure is about the contact we have with people…
a democracy is about people deciding their fate together… together
is the key word…
the reality is, we are but a step away from the bee’s and ants in their social structure…
not only must our political structure mirror our social structure but our economic
structure must mirror our social structure…and capitalism doesn’t mirror
our social structure… it is too individualist… every man for himself is not
the way or means of the human being… we sink or swim together as a species
and our economics must reflect that… that is why communism as a economic
system is a better fit for human beings than capitalism…and that is why democracy
is a better fit for human beings then a dictatorship or any top down political structure…
our political and economic structure must, must reflect the reality that is the human being…
and we are a social, pack animals that must operate within and as a group…
the lone wolf idea of the human being is simply a myth and sometimes, sometimes
I admit that the social aspect of the human experience gets a little tiring and that
is when the lone wolf idea has appeal but the reality is, we exist as the founding fathers
said, of the people, for the people, by the people and this is just more then a political
expression… it is a motto for all human beings… we exist of the people and we exist
for the people and we exist by the people… for human beings, there can be no other way…
it has been said that the worst fate is to die alone and that in a nutshell is the human
experience…we live together and we die together and we must coexist… together
and social, communal experiences are what define the human being and our
political and economic structures must reflect that and that is social and
communal social structures like communism and socialism
are the answers to the question as to, what political and economic structure
must human beings have…
Kropotkin