so anyway, back to actual philosophy…
in this conflict between traditional thoughts and attitudes
and new experiences and new knowledge, what else happened?
some of our responses to the new idea’s and experiences was
democracy and capitalism and communism, nationalism…
and ism’s and ideologies that didn’t survive the new experiences and new
knowledge were religion, monarchy, imperialism… all were destroyed by the new
experiences and idea’s…
this idea of equality is a modern one and comes from our new experiences
and idea’s/knowledge… the thing about the medieval world was its
devotion to inequality, both economic and political…
the modern world’s response has been the rising approval of equality
as an answer to the traditional thoughts and attitudes…equality
both in the political and the economic sense…events that
show us the modern response to the traditional thoughts and attitudes
are the French Revolution, the American revolution, the Russian revolution
the entirety of the 20 century with its wars and concentration camps and
cold war are all response of sorts of the conflict between new experiences
and new ideas and the old traditions and attitudes…the conflict
between the left and right lies in this conflict between the old traditions
and attitudes and the new experiences and new idea’s… the left wants to
follow the path of the new experiences, new idea’s and the right wants
a return to the old traditions and old attitudes…the right is wrong for the
very simple reason that you can’t engage in the modern world with its new
experiences and new idea’s and new technologies with old idea’s and old
ism’s and ideologies and old attitudes… the right is trying to preserve
a way of life that is already gone… lost in this new world of science and
technology… the battle in the schools to prevent trans kids from
using bathrooms is just a symptom of this battle to preserve the old
traditional thoughts and attitudes against the new idea’s and new
experiences…the right will fail because if they cannot overcome
the new experiences and the new knowledge with old and failed
traditional thoughts and attitudes…that don’t cover the new
experiences and new idea’s…we must have new thinking about
what it means to be human in light of the new experiences and the
new ideas/knowledge…the old ways of thinking about human beings
no longer applies anymore…for example, you cannot think about human
beings like the Medieval times thought about human beings… we are not
in the medieval times, we are in a new and modern world that requires
new idea’s in response to the new experiences…to those who defend
the old way, the conservatives for example… you are simply preventing
people from achieving a new equilibrium with the modern age by your
holding the past up as a model for the future… this new equilibrium
is the balance achieved once the new thoughts and new experiences are
processed and understood and placed into the already existing system…
and this is what is really desired, a balance between what is and what is
possible… the road into the future is not a path into the past like
conservatives want, the road into the future requires new experiences
and new knowledge being put into action politically, economically,
socially, scientifically and culturally… the basis of action in the
modern world must be modern thoughts and attitudes, not old
traditional thoughts and attitudes because they are from another age
that had different experiences and different knowledge… we cannot use
their experiences and knowledge to chart our course into the future
because their experiences and knowledge is geared toward their
conflict between new experiences and new knowledge and the old
traditional thoughts and attitudes that was prevalent in their time…
that is their response to the conflict, it cannot be our response because
we have new experiences and new knowledge that only makes sense
in our times and our age… we must respond with the appropriate
ideas that work in our age, not theirs…
Kropotkin