Ever wonder why dictatorships fail and why communism
failed and democracy has succeeded?
The reason is simple enough, dictatorships and communism as
practiced by the soviet union failed because it prevented the energy
of the people to fuel the dictatorship/communism. In other words,
if a political system doesn’t have enough energy which is
motivation and enthusiasm, the system will eventually die.
Motivation and enthusiasm is energy put into a system and
no different then gas into a car or food into a biological being.
Apathy and disinterest takes away energy from a system and
thus increases disorder and entropy and chaos. if you want a viable,
organized society, you must have motivation and enthusiasm and
energy put into the system for it to survive. That is why today
political systems are failing because of the attacks upon the
voting rights and disenfranchising of people leads to the failure
of political and economic systems. You want America to survive,
you must, must increase the energy going into the system
and the only way to do that is by creating motivation and
enthusiasm in the system by engaging people in the system.
Creating energy and positive energy at that, will be the cure
for what ails America. All questions of government and the systems
within government, both societal and individual are questions of
energy. Does that system, both individually and societal have enough
energy to maintain itself and even grow itself or is the system lacking
enough energy to maintain itself? That is the real question of political
science and politics and philosophy and all things social, does that
organization have enough energy to sustain itself? The family unit is
an excellent place to begin to understand how energy is used
to maintain and even grow a unit like the family.
We have families that must have energy to sustain itself
and that energy is not just fuel of cars or planes or trains but
the amount of energy the family itself puts into the family unit.
Successful families have/put more energy into the family then
less successful families… It becomes a question of family success
comes from the energy a family puts into itself and social systems
like government and businesses and chess clubs all become
a question of how much energy, not just money, but motivation
and enthusiasm people put into the social systems, that is energy.
and the current drive to disenfranchise American’s takes away from
the motivation and enthusiasm people have for their political and
economic systems……… In other words, businesses fail because they
don’t have the motivation or enthusiasm to sustain a business.
The drive for profit/money which negates humans and their
values also negates their motivation and enthusiasm for a business
and its driver, the capitalism system. If you want to motivate and
enthuse people, you must, must engage them by giving them
greater profits and greater participation into the capitalist and
political system. You want America to survive, you must engage
with people so they become motivated and enthused participants
in those systems and the only to do that is by giving them the
motivation to increase their energy levels in the system by
giving them a share of the gains of the system… Not the
pennies on the dollars but a far more and increased participation
in the money made and decisions made……. if you want a business
or government or any social system to be successful, you have to
increase the participation of the people within that system and the
only way to do that is increase their share of profits and their share
of participation and their increase participation into government.
To disenfranchise people is to decrease the amount of energy people
will put into a system and enough of a decrease and the system
will fail. That is where we are at right now… The apathy and
discouragement people feel in the political and economic system
means that people will no longer put energy into those political
and economic systems and thus they will begin to fail and we
see this today in the beginning of the failure of the American
system because people have taken their energy and put it
into something besides the social and economic and political
systems that we need to survive. We must get people a reason
to engage in and participate in our social, economic and political
systems and that means we must give them a vested interest
in maintaining those systems and the only to do that is by
giving people a share of those systems. We must invest people
with the social, political and economic systems. Thus we must
reward them in some fashion to increase their participation
in these systems… rewards them via both increase share
of the wealth of capitalism and the increase share in
participation in the government to the people’s benefit.
If people don’t benefit from either government or business,
then why bother engaging with them? There is no benefit
right now to engage with or increase the energy one puts
into government or business because the energy put into
such a system will and is negated by the lack of rewards
for such participation into government or business…
People have to feel that their participation and energy
put into a system is worth it and right now it isn’t worth
the energy or time or effort to engage with or participate
in government or business or any social organization.
and thus we have disengagement and apathy and general not
caring if the system lives or die because we get no benefit
from either engaging with or participation in government or
business… when we increase the benefits of engaging
with government and with business, then we shall see an increase
in motivation and engagement and enthusiasm and thus an increase
in energy in the social, political and economic organizations and thus
we shall have a better chance of succeeding in the social, political
and economic systems that we have. The success of all social,
political and economic systems/organizations come from the amount of energy
we put into those systems/organizations.
so what energy have you put into societies systems or organizations
that will allow it to maintain and grow itself?
for that is the question of human existence… how shall we expend
our energy? On what shall we expend our energy? On private
goals or private desires or shall we expend our energy on
social, political or economic systems or organizations?
This leads us to negative energy like anger and hate and lust
and greed for these private uses of energy takes away from
the overall and needed energy a system needs to maintain and grow
itself.
Kropotkin