so we have questions of the modern age……
and they come from the Kantian questions,
what can we know, what are we to do, and what can we hope for?
but we don’t exists in a vacuum, we exists in the middle of …………. life……
and part of life is the indoctrinations by society in the myths, habits, biases,
prejudices and superstitions that society has and wants you to have…….
we also exists in the “modern” age……… or perhaps its the “postmodern”
age, I can’t tell them apart……anyway…….
and we have values…… so the question becomes how to connect these different
aspects of our lives………
the modern age or was it the postmodern, anyway, this age has its own
values…… they are easy to spot………… what do we value?
we value money……… and our side values support this one basic value…
we value punctuality, we value efficiency, we value obedience… all very
useful values for making money………
“so what can we do” in light of our modern values?
the only choice that is offered to us is monetary choices…………
we must become “contributors” to society…we don’t allow any “deadbeat”
persons or group of people to exists… we must all contribute to society to
be considered “useful” to have “value”… upon this fact lies the war on
minorities and women and anyone not considered to have value………
women and minorities are not considered to contribute to society
in a “production” or “consumer” aspect…………… they don’t spend enough
money in society eyes to be “contributors” to society or they don’t produce
enough goods to be a contributor………… and that is how we value people,
by monetary means…… do they contribute in some monetarily fashion
to the “betterment” of society? and by betterment, we mean, do they
contribute to the “bottom line”?
and this “bottom line” is really the end judgement of a society in which
money and profits are the only worthwhile goals……………
and so modern age answer to “what must we do”… the answer is to
contribute to the “bottom line”……….we must become profitable in some
fashion to have value……… no profit, no value… simple as that……
my question is simply this, is our contribution to society solely to be based
on the question of the "bottom line?..………
doesn’t this question of the “bottom line” asking for a “reevaluation of values”?
I think so……… but where do we begin?
Kropotkin