so we have values and their society…
for example, we have the famous American example,
of the American values system…
Truth, justice and the American way of life…
Truth…what is the truth? indeed, we have that problem today…
we have a president who is indeed, untethered from the truth…
and can be demonstrated to have lied over 2,500 times since he
has been president…the truth means nothing in our age…
so the first word in our American value system has no value…
justice… justice is bought and sold as a commodity today…
the wealthy buy influence and justice and the poor and middle
class don’t have that luxury… justice is equality and we clearly
don’t have any sort of equality in America today… from economic
justice to political justice to legal justice… in each area, we see
how justice and equality has been subverted by money…
when only 500 people have the same wealth as 3.5 billion people
around the world, we cannot have equality and justice when that
is the current situation in our world today…so we have no justice
and the second word in our American value system no longer exists…
and the third valued offered… the American way of life…
and what exactly is this? where we treat human beings as commodities
and value their existence based on their creation of wealth and profits…
that means people are means to the creation of profits… which makes
profits the priority, not people…people become expendable…
and their values just as expendable because values are
negated because they don’t create profits… love and hope and justice
and peace and honor and charity… these values don’t create profits
and thus are denied and negated… this negation is nihilism…
and we live in a nihilist world because human values are negated
because those values interfere with the pursuit of profit…
now let us look at the third point about values which is a historical
understanding of values…
Kropotkin