Let us look at another aspect of this……
conservatives preach and extoll the value of greed.
However, when we examine this value, it changes
into a negative and destructive value. Greed damages
a system, any social system. Greed has no effect on
such natural systems such as a solar system, but
on a social system such as society or government, greed
damages that system. How? by taking energy that is
better served by going into a system and taking that energy
applying it to own’s selfish needs. In other words, Greed
takes energy into itself instead putting energy into a social
system or government. That investment of energy into oneself
instead of a social structure removes the much needed energy
that allows a system to maintain and grow itself. If energy is spent
on private matters like greed, then the social structure and government
has less energy which is entropy. That is why we must overcome our
negative energies because those negative energies take away
energy from our social structures and government. The energy needed
to maintain our social structures becomes less because of negative energy
and that leads to chaos and disorder. Order comes from energy being
put into a system and disorder comes from the loss of energy
in a system. Negative energy, negative values take energy away
from social structures and thus increases disorder and chaos.
Now remember energy doesn’t have to be gas or oil or solar energy,
energy is the effort someone puts into something, energy is the input
of activity one puts into a system… thus energy can be
people putting energy into social system like government or
society or any social structure……… Thus when we have over 100 million
people failing to vote, they are taking energy away from our government and
our social structure and thus damaging it. By voting and engaging in our social
structures and government, we increase energy into the system which allows
it to maintain itself and grow, prosper. Energy put into a system allows it
to maintain itself and grow itself, and every social structure, organization must
have ever increasing energy to maintain and grow itself.
Thus we cannot put energy into negative values like nihilism or greed
or anger or lust because putting energy into those values prevent energy
going into our social systems like government. You only have a set amount
of energy and what shall you spend that energy on? That is the point
of the Kantian/Kropotkin question, on what are we going to spend our energy on?
Put your energy into valuable and important things like the survival of the human
race and the survival of the planet earth and stop putting energy into such
unimportant matters like greed and hate and anger and lust and watching TV.
Put your energy into stuff that counts and that will help continue the human race…
Ask yourself, what did I do today to improve the energy of the social systems
that are essential to my existence? What did I do that increased the energy
of social systems like social organizations and the government?
Kropotkin