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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
i'm feeling it. paradise is coming, we just need to embrace it.
there's no inner peace without outer peace...
also, i think because of speculation (that is, because people can "go meta" and "play" at capitalism, by using features of the system itself to generate profits for themselves) we do not live in a resource based economy, our money doesn't just reflect the resources that exist, it also reflects the value we believe they have (that is, our (changing) ideas about the resources) and this generates a tension that can't be resolved inside capitalism.
now, your last sentence is a little confusing. fairness is a human concept, but the world isn't? the world also seems like a human concept to me. i don't see why one shouldn't be applicable to the other. if we crack open our bibles, we find verses in which the promise of paradise involves lions lying down with lambs, and eating hay. now, the transition there from justice in the human world to justice in the animal kingdom seems rather seamless, and simple. and why our notions of order, harmony and resonance couldn't be extended to even things we consider "dead" is beyond me...
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i like that first bit, although i don't think you can find inner peace if you project conflict and strife. technically speaking if everyone spent a minute looking inward for peace then the entire planet would be at peace for a minute.
in terms of money just because we chose to alter our perceived value of the resource shouldn't change the fact that the money is initially based on said resource. it's not my fault lots of people let themselves be lead by the nose by their ego into thinking they NEED that new gadget or whatever some fancy pants famous person is whoring out.
as for my last sentence i stand by it. the idea of 'fairness' and what is 'right' comes from the individual human being. the world / the planet / biosphere / whatever you want to call it exists independently of the human animal. i do believe all those dinosaur bones out there kind of proves this. basically to me the human tries to established organized order to the world while the world laughs and continues existing via chaotic order.
as for the other questions that got thrown my way... in 50 years i'll be 83. i don't really care to live that long, i've made peace with the fact that i WILL die someday a while ago, but that doesn't mean i've forgotten how to grow a garden big enough to feed my family.
in the same breath that says life isn't supposed to be easy, where is it supposed to be fair?