so, when last seen, I pose the question, what is the solution to
the alienation of America?
first of all, it requires a recognition of our/your alienation
from America…
understanding that there is a problem is the first step to
being able to find a solution to the problem…
the problem lies in our values… we value money/profit over
lives… we must have a reevaluation of values to correct this
basic modern understanding of today’s America…
the next step is to no longer remain silent and complicit
in the continuing nihilism of America…
as the problem lies in two, separate areas of American life,
we must attack both areas, the political and the economic…
we must attack until the two, as with all values, actually
are one, but we have failed to see this… the political and the
economic are two sides of the same coin and then someday,
we shall understand that they are the same coin…
dress up in different clothing, but the same underneath…
the understanding in that they are the same lies in the fact
that both attempt to offer up solutions to the problem of,
how are we to live our lives?
the two, the political and the economic are the same because
they attempt to answer that question from different places…
how are we to conduct our relations with other people via the laws,
and how are we to conduct our relations with people via making a living,
or really put, how can we insure the basic necessities we need to live
like food, water, shelter, clothing, education… that is what making a living
is about anyway, how do we procure the basic necessities to survive…
and what is the basic necessities? you already know that…
and now the question becomes how do we achieve that?
a good place to start is with Maslow’s hierarchy of values/needs…
in which we see what a person needs to become fully human…
we must begin with our basic necessities like food and water and
shelter…and then we rise to the safety level and then the love/belonging
level, then the esteem level and then the self-actualization level…
this guideline tells us the goals and we need to create a course to
accomplish those goals… we have foolishly chosen capitalism as
one means to accomplish the goal given by Maslow…
and this is the point, we aren’t about the values presented or
the means used to accomplish our goals, such as ism’s and ideologies…
we are about reaching the goals, which is to survival and then
safety and then love/belonging… and so on… that is
what we must be thinking about, not the ism or ideology
we are using to reach these goals, but about reaching these goals
without the use of ism’s and ideologies…we must being with the
understanding or acknowledgment of the fact that we are alienated
from society because of the ism’s and ideologies in present use…
we must have a reevaluation of values that return human beings
to or before or ahead of money/profits… lives before money/profits…
this is the basic step that must occur before we can begin the process
of accomplishing Maslow’s hierarchy of needs…
the question becomes, how do we feed people, clothe people,
house people, educate people without ideology and ism’s?
what does it take to accomplish our goal of reaching the basic goal
of life which is to reach self-actualization… becoming a human being…
becoming who you are…we can reach that goal within the confines
of the modern world if, if we put people lives and their values first,
before money/profits…
one method is to have economic equality…no longer will people have
more money then the rest of humanity… the top 400 people in the world
have more money then half of humanity… 3.5 billion people… that issue
alone prevents us from achieving our goal of reaching our self-actualization…
we cannot even reach the basic level of our needs, the physical, the basics of
eating, water, shelter, clothing…if there exists economic inequality of this
immense level…if some say, well, if we prevent people from having billions,
then what incentive do they have to benefit the world, Ayn Rand…
but I ask, what incentive do people have to work if they spend their lives
barely able to feed or house or clothes themselves in 40+ years of slaving
for their corporate masters? any question about incentives or desire to
allow people their billions can be applied to the middle or working poor classes
in the world…
so, we have a goal, we must find a way to make it happen…
how do we allow the most people to reach the basic levels
of survival or of achieving their basic necessities without recourse
to an ism or ideology?
is this even possible?
then after reaching the basic level of necessities, how do we reach
the next levels of safety and of love/belonging and then esteem and
then self-actualization…we have a destination, now we need a road map,
a guide into reaching our goals, our destination…and our modern
ism’s and ideologies are not only preventing us from reaching our goals
and destination, the current ism’s and ideologies are a sure path to failure…
don’t believe me… look around you… see the failure in our alienation from
society/government… see the poverty in terms of not only our standard of
living but in our poverty of values and our failure to understand
that we exist beneath Maslow’s hierarchy of needs because we
don’t even see a problem…we don’t even see how we value money/profits
before people and their lives/values… that we don’t even see this modern
nihilism is an indictment of our failure to see or to understand the problem…
to become who you are is not about becoming in an isolated, personal
standpoint but a collective understanding that we can only find out
who we are collectively, together and in full view of everyone…
we are a social species and in light of this, we can only become who we
are in light of being social with our fellow citizens…
it is all the same, you just have to see deep down and understand
that everything is one and the same…
at first, two concepts seem apart, separate and distinct…
then they become two sides of the same coin and
then they become one…that is life…
it looks separate and distinct and then it becomes
two sides of the same coin and then it becomes one…
so, how do we end or solve the problem of alienation in America?
we remember that we are the same, not distinct and separate
and not two sides of the same coin, but one…
Kropotkin