Socialism Doesn’t Work, But We Need Something
Just recently I was discussing with a good friend of mine, Tyler Lozano, about a variety of topics ranging from personal dissatisfaction with personal social lives to the greater dissatisfaction with what is defined as a normal life. About how he refuses to accept standards of life, like a house with a white-picket fence, and other amenities that are not necessary, and he questioned why he deserved so much of what he didn’t need? Who determines who gets luxury while others die?
I, believing in the importance of socialism to an extent (I’ve long accepted the failings and never expect nor desire a fully socialist system), made a suggestion regarding being a philanthropist, and how that entails embracing socialism internally. He took this, and like the wordsmith he is, rewrote it in a much more elegant fashion.
Implementing socialism within themselves, can be essentially thought of as a grass roots system for inspiring shared love (platos, pathos, eros) among all people. “among all people” being an expanded form of oneself, and inspiration as just a matter of perspective from introspection to extrospection.
Socialism generally operates on coercive dictates to accomplish things within society, and ends up generalizing people, when people are hardly general, so it lacks amorphousness and thus optimization. Societies in the past have flourished with an educated public, because they’ve become cognizant of the actual mechanisms in place that dictates society; as opposed to arbitrary dictates (to them), that offers nothing in the way of relevance, as they or their families have virtually no overlap in this collective social contract.
These are all just mechanisms of a government, politics, economics… must one refine these into perfection? Or is it us who constantly finetune them, yet always fall right back into calamity, despite how much we “optimize” our society? I think it’s all irrelevant on a large level, as many of our troubles are caused by a weak collective social conscience, which seems hardwired into society… perhaps the only means of escaping this is through transcending humanity.
- Tyler Lozano
