[quote=“Peter Kropotkin”]
there is a very old saying, you don’t put new wine into old wineskins…
and yet that is what we have been doing…we have new times and
new environment… the modern age… and the modern age which is
new wine and we try to fill this new age into old wineskins which is the
old ism’s and old ideologies…our new wine created by the modern era,
must have new wineskins otherwise they burst…and part of the failure of
our times comes from the fact, we haven’t created the new wineskins for
our new wine… that is part of what we need to do in this modern age…
comes to grips with the new environment and new situation we find ourselves in…
K: so when last seen, as I have noted above, I was talking about how we
have a new situation which in many ways is unprecedented…
we have the technology to destroy the world, we communicate
with ease around the world, we have gone to the moon and have computers
and have medically solved age old problems… within eyesight is my TV and my
microwave and the telephone and of course, the computer I am writing on,…
and we call this the modern age and yet, we try to fit into this modern age,
ism’s and ideologies from thousands of years ago… we have climate change and
overpopulation and pollution and what can text and ism’s or ideologies from
thousands of years ago can help us deal with these crisis? I have read the Koran
and I have read the bible and I have read texts from the followers of the Buddha
and none of these can help us in our current situation… we must create our own
current text that will help us solve or at least manage this “modern” age…
even the declaration of Independence, which is slightly older then 200 years
old isn’t current enough to help us answer our myriad of issues and problems…
we have new wine, new problems, new technologies, new issues and the old wineskins
of old ism’s and ideologies and old text cannot help us deal with these current
problems and issues…we cannot look to the past to solve our current issues
and yet that is exactly the answer conservatives give… let the old text and the
old ism’s and the old ideologies solve our problems and as much comfort as
they might give us, they cannot solve the problems of the modern age…
only new ism’s and new ideologies and new text can solve the new problems
and new issues of the modern age.
or to put it another way… hoping the old text will solve our problems is
like expecting a manual, a text, on fixing a horse drawn carriage will help us
fix a 2017 car…I can assure you a text on fixing a horse drawn carriage will
not fix anything right now except how to fix a horse drawn carriage and frankly
they are not that many horse drawn carriages floating around right now…
so why would you expect a text from 2000 years ago, the bible, fix
anything going on right now? why would you expect words from 1500 years
ago fix anything right now, Islam? No, you have to create new words and new
texts and new ism’s and ideologies to solve our current problems and issues…
so in any problem, we have to find the problem before we can solve the
problem… and this is where we are right now, attempting to discover
what is the problem and then and only then, can we begin to craft
a solution to our many problems and issues…
so, what do you think the problem is?
Kropotkin