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January 20th 2010 00:07
Is it an economic crisis or a human nature crisis
The above is taken from the essays of Peter Maurin who co-founded
the Catholic Workers movement with Dorothy Day - and who gives us deep insight how human nature guides our daily lives - asking do we need more priests or more policemen.
Liberalism is based on Rousseau who said human nature is naturally good
but society infects it with evil. John Dewey installed this concept in our state education system and it still remains the core of our public education. Society is made up of people trying to cope with one another at the highest levels possibe. Human nature is is not naturally good. It is flawed. It needs a helping hand. However, many well intended Conservatives and business people say Capitalism and the so call free market accomodates the flaws in human nature the best. They in essence are agreeing with liberal thinking in this matter. Human nature does not tell us to say - it is nothing personal - it is only business. Business does not have a life of its own. It is an interaction between people to provide for the needs of all. This interaction forms society.
Alan Greenspan in his book the Age of Turbulence went out of his way telling about the failures of the utopian religous New Harmony workers community experiment in defense of Capitalism. It is obvious that there must be something better than what we have now with raw Capitalism being unleashed in a global economic arena with free trade as its tool.
Both are wrong about human nature and that is the reason for religions to be more than religions but also away to provide mankind with priniciples like Jesus said, do unto others as you would have them do to you. Even Adam Smith held labor and workers as something sacred and the core of all society. Human nature is flawed but ready for goodness and real harmony with one another. Our secular societies make a big mistake by denying the power of religions to set principles of conduct in everyday life. The Monday workday follows the day of whorship where the members are supposed to carry it into the work week. Too many try to separate the two and many liberals do not even want to admit it exists in everyday life but our human nature calls us to fit our highest principles to everyday life and the work world. This does not surface automatically.
In the global economic arena, human nature is on trial and the economic crisis is really a human nature crisis. It is not human nature to compete with one another in a survival of the fittest way. It is not human nature to live off the impoverished workers of the world as so called free trade tells us to do. It is not human nature to shop for the cheapest price without considering how the prices came about. It is not human nature to shop our way out of our jobs. The phrase - do unto others as you would have them do to you- may come from the Bible but it is also a very pragmatic thing to do in order to have the good life for all in a setting of harmony instead of living in the free trade world dependent on the cheapest labor possible. This is not human nature.
(See more at Human Nature is on trial in our global economic crisis and communications by rank and the unnetted )
Peter Maurin's essay on Human Nature tells us what caused the economic crisis
The above is taken from the essays of Peter Maurin who co-founded
the Catholic Workers movement with Dorothy Day - and who gives us deep insight how human nature guides our daily lives - asking do we need more priests or more policemen.
Liberalism is based on Rousseau who said human nature is naturally good
but society infects it with evil. John Dewey installed this concept in our state education system and it still remains the core of our public education. Society is made up of people trying to cope with one another at the highest levels possibe. Human nature is is not naturally good. It is flawed. It needs a helping hand. However, many well intended Conservatives and business people say Capitalism and the so call free market accomodates the flaws in human nature the best. They in essence are agreeing with liberal thinking in this matter. Human nature does not tell us to say - it is nothing personal - it is only business. Business does not have a life of its own. It is an interaction between people to provide for the needs of all. This interaction forms society.
Alan Greenspan in his book the Age of Turbulence went out of his way telling about the failures of the utopian religous New Harmony workers community experiment in defense of Capitalism. It is obvious that there must be something better than what we have now with raw Capitalism being unleashed in a global economic arena with free trade as its tool.
Both are wrong about human nature and that is the reason for religions to be more than religions but also away to provide mankind with priniciples like Jesus said, do unto others as you would have them do to you. Even Adam Smith held labor and workers as something sacred and the core of all society. Human nature is flawed but ready for goodness and real harmony with one another. Our secular societies make a big mistake by denying the power of religions to set principles of conduct in everyday life. The Monday workday follows the day of whorship where the members are supposed to carry it into the work week. Too many try to separate the two and many liberals do not even want to admit it exists in everyday life but our human nature calls us to fit our highest principles to everyday life and the work world. This does not surface automatically.
In the global economic arena, human nature is on trial and the economic crisis is really a human nature crisis. It is not human nature to compete with one another in a survival of the fittest way. It is not human nature to live off the impoverished workers of the world as so called free trade tells us to do. It is not human nature to shop for the cheapest price without considering how the prices came about. It is not human nature to shop our way out of our jobs. The phrase - do unto others as you would have them do to you- may come from the Bible but it is also a very pragmatic thing to do in order to have the good life for all in a setting of harmony instead of living in the free trade world dependent on the cheapest labor possible. This is not human nature.
(See more at Human Nature is on trial in our global economic crisis and communications by rank and the unnetted )
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