if we think of human beings as a means to a goal, such
as human beings only value is to create wealth, human beings
are the means to achieve wealth, then we have devalued human beings
to just being a means to an end, an unhealthy and dangerous way of
thinking about human beings……
the rise of capitalism and the rise of the industrial revolution
came about at the same time, you can make arguments that
one caused the other, but the point is that both capitalism
and the industrial revolution atomized man……. in other words,
human beings were alienated, disconnected from the past thinking
about human beings… human beings on some level were connected to
each other, either by religion or history or associations or economic
means and that connection allowed human beings to be connected
to each other…the rise of capitalism, the industrial revolution
disconnected people from each other, atomizing people into
single atoms floating through the universe with no connection to
each other or to any ism, ideology, bias, superstitions………
in our atomization, we became alienated from ourselves, other
human beings, history, other systems………….
the point now is to reunite ourselves in some way that
connects us or no longer alienate ourselves from each
other or to any ism or ideology or history………
History for example, no longer unites people into a “common cause”
because history has no bearing in a world that is focus on
using people to create profit/money…… how does knowing history
help create profit for a corporation? It doesn’t and so it isn’t valued
anymore and thus we become alienated from history, we are no longer
connected to history, to our past……. and that is where we are now…
alienated and disconnected from history and each other and social structures
like government and other systems because to connect us to any of these
social systems is to reduce or eliminate profit/money and we certainly can’t
have that, can we?
Until we remove the pursuit of profits/money as our primary
function of human beings, we shall continue to be alienated
or disconnected from society, each other, even disconnected/alienated
from ourselves…not until we begin to have a new vision, a new way
of seeing human beings can we reconnect to who we are or no longer be alienated
from each other or society or from ourselves………
How we view ourselves and each other is simply another function of
our childhood indoctrinations… we must overcome and become
who we are which means we will no longer be disconnected
from each other or from ourselves…… we must overcome and
no longer be alienated from each other or our system or our lives……
Kropotkin