we are members of and engage with many different systems, family,
work, school, church, political to name a few and we engage in different
degrees with each system… now because of the differences between the
system as the biological is different then the mechanical and is different
from the natural, we each exist in different systems that are often
in conflict and compete against each other and demands different things
from us… the family system wants/needs different things then the work system,
which requires different things then the political system… we sometimes
feel conflicted and anxious, suffer from angst because of the conflicting
demands from the different systems…
the work system we have, of capitalism is nihilistic… it has no use
for human values like love and hope and justice and negates these
values because these values don’t create profit whereas the family
system is all about these values of love and justice and hope…
whereas love has no place in the political system but justice does…
this is part of the modern problem whereas different systems demand
different values to be followed and different systems negate certain values…
the family system wouldn’t work with if everyone in any given family tried
to extract profit from everyone else in the family…and the capitalist
system wouldn’t work if all it tried to get was love and cooperation from
everyone… businesses often claim that their company treats its workers
like family…but that just isn’t true as long as money/profit dominates
the company…
different systems, different objectives, different goals…
and individually, we have to sort out which systems objectives and goals
are worth our efforts and which one aren’t…
we are torn by and struggle with, each systems demands for loyalty
and obedience…
the modern world’s is creating the angst and anxiety and despair
in the people because we cannot hold true with every demand from
every system… we just can’t… if we don’t hold true with the economic,
we are fired and if we don’t hold true with the political, we are jailed
and if we don’t hold true with the social, we are ostracize and if we don’t
hold true to the cultural, we are deemed irrelevant…
and we can’t hold true to every system and every demand, so we
are left with inner conflicts between the competing and conflicting
systems and their demands…
how am I to live?
given the conflicting and competing demands of the various systems,
that seems to be impossible… the only solution I see is
we align all the systems… we have each system hold the same values
as much as they can… so the economic is just as concerned with justice
as the political and we have all the various systems be concerned with love
and value life… by having all the systems holding the same values
that we help remove the anxiety and angst of the modern world…
we are no longer torn and conflicted by different, competing systems
and their different and competing values…
justice becomes a value throughout all systems, from the economic to
the political to the social to the cultural…love becomes a value
through all the systems, not just the family and religious systems…
which leads us to our next point, holism…
Kropotkin