we know our lives, our society, our world is getting more complicated…
for at each stage of our lives, our relationships get more complicated…
in grade school, life was pretty simple… I went to school,
I played baseball and I watched TV………life really wasn’t more
complicated then that…
in high school, life became more complicated…I went to school,
I ran cross-country and track, family relationships became
more complicated, friendships became more complicated…
in other words, life became more complicated for me…
in my twenties, life once again increased in complexity…
dating, work, family issues, becoming engaged with
social issues and political events… for example,
the election of Raygun, when I was 20 or 21, radicalized me
and I became an anarchist…
and at every step of my life, has become more and more complicated…
getting married and family and work and engaging in social issues…
and now I am 59… and my life has for the first time, become less
complicated and that is because I have made a conscience decision
to remove complications…….
but what is true of the individual, is true of society,
as society has progressed, it too has become more and more
complicated… with the every single birth, society becomes
more and more complicated……. each human birth complicates
society…just the numbers alone, makes life more complicated…
and just the numbers of human alone, increases pollution,
increases global warming, the decline of resources from feeding
and clothing and housing all those human beings…the sheer weight
of all those human beings will some day, bring about the collapse of
human society… life will have become to complicated for us to
continue society………
that is why we cannot follow the conservative mantra of less government
and less government regulations and less anything… simply because
we need more government and more government because our rising
population demands we do so… for any system to succeed, the system
must have the resources needed to maintain that system………
and the only way to get those resources is by government intervention…
for capitalism is only concern with profits and not the viability of the
system…as long as profits are made, there is no concern as to
the system as a whole……. and that is why we need government…
to be concerned with the whole system, not just about the profit margins…
an ever increasingly complicated system must have oversight
and an awareness of the overall system…….
and only government can do so…….
Kropotkin