now we return to a prior point…
I have identified the creation of modernity
in the historical events of the industrial revolution
and the two world wars and the depression and
the holocaust and Hiroshima…
but what are the VALUES of these historical events?
for example, what values do we see in these historical events?
I have pointed out one in the fact that from the industrial revolution,
we treat human beings and their values as antagonistic to the
goal of the creation of money/profits…the values in the creation
of and coming from the industrial revolution are negative values…
for example, the ism that arose from the industrial revolution was
capitalism… the negative values that comes from capitalism is
greed and avarice and lust and envy… remember… capitalism
is the private vices of people (which from magic) become
public good… that is the reasoning given for the
existence of capitalism as given by its defenders…
now let us look at other historical events… the two world wars,
the depression, the holocaust, Hiroshima…
the cause of and the values coming from each event is negative…
wars are caused by negative values such as greed and lust and hate
and anger and envy and…the depression was caused by
the greed of those who were in wall street at the time…
you cannot look at the holocaust and tell me that had any
positive values created or came from the holocaust…
again, the holocaust came from negative values like
anger and hate and fear and envy… there was no
positive values arising in the holocaust… it was purely
negative values at work which created the holocaust…
and Hiroshima…the bombing that killed hundreds of thousands
of people… how is that anything but negative…
the justification given was that by killing hundreds of thousands
of Japanese people, you prevented the deaths of hundreds of
thousands of American soldiers … once again offering up the
adage that still exists today, that American’s have more value
then other cultures and other people…one American is worth
x-number of people in other cultures… we see this habit, myth,
prejudice still exists today… and voice loudly by the
followers of IQ45…
we see that the modern era was dominated by historical events
that were driven by negative values like anger and hate and fear
that is why the modern era is based on negative values which
still drive the events of today… there is nothing positive about
the values of IQ45 and his followers… for those values are of
hate and anger and greed and lust and envy… nothing positive
about those values…
and that is why the modern era looks and feels so different from
other era’s… it is driven by negative values… if we want to change
the nature of the modern era, we must begin by changing the
values that drive the modern era… instead of negative values,
we look to positive values… love, peace, charity, honor,
hope, dignity… for example…we have a great many values
we can choose from… values that are not negated by
our choice of an economic and/or a political system…
greed for example is the driving force of capitalism…
even defenders admit this… but greed carried out to its
fullest extent, ends up with the final results of
a world without resources and a polluted world
and a world without hope or the possibility of
recovery… greed taken to its final results leaves
the world destroyed and hopeless…
greed is unsustainable
it is really that simple…we cannot sustain greed over
any length of time because it destroys the resources we
need to exist… water, land, air… are all being polluted
by the greed of capitalism… and soon, each will be the
cause of wars because they are the essentials of life
and we must have these essentials to exists… we must
eat and have water and have shelter and clothes
and education…and love…
capitalism in its pursuit of money/profits doesn’t care about
the quality of the earth and its ability to sustain life, human
and other life… in our greed, we have begun another age of
extinction of life all around the globe…and to the defenders of
capitalism, it is a small price to pay for wealth in which to
buy justice and freedom and destroy equality…
so we can state that it is the historical events that are
driven by negative values that has created the modern world…
what are we to do?
begin by replacing those negative values with positive values…
and act upon those positive values… create historical events
with positive values, not negative values… use love
and hope and charity and peace to create historical events…
and that is the true meaning of the post-modern world…
the use of positive values to create historical events…
Kropotkin