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Originally Posted by Gravydoo II
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No no. I dont believe that. I believe that the solution to most things is putting the right people in the right places. As long as we have this top heavy rich people government, its going to serve the rich. Once we get some poor people elected, shit will change.
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Spandrell is unfortunately lost in the illusion of materialism but he does understand how biological leninism works.
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Socialism works not only because it promises higher status to a lot of people. Socialism is catnip because it promises status to people who, deep down, know they shouldn't have it. There is such a thing as natural law, the natural state of any normally functioning human society. Basic biology tells us people are different. Some are more intelligent, more attractive, more crafty and popular. Everybody knows, deep in their lizard brains, how human mating works: women are attracted to the top dogs. Being generous, all human societies default to a Pareto distribution where 20% of people are high-status, and everyone else just has to put up with their inferiority for life. That's just how it works.
Socialism though promised to change that, and Marx showed they had a good plan. Lenin then put that plan to work in practice. What did Lenin do? Exterminate the natural aristocracy of Russia, and build a ruling class with a bunch of low-status people. Workers, peasants, Jews, Latvians, Ukrainians. Lenin went out of his way to recruit everyone who had a grudge against Imperial Russian society. And it worked, brilliantly. The Bolsheviks, a small party with little popular support, won the civil war, and became the awesome Soviet Union. The early Soviet Union promoted minorities, women, sexual deviants, atheists, cultists and every kind of weirdo. Everybody but intelligent, conservative Russians of good families.
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You see, the poor will never really be in charge because they simply do not possess the intellectual capacity. It simply doesn't matter whether that lack is genetic or environmental. When you do not understand the rules, you will be manipulated by those who do. It's inevitable. In reality, Communism is an alliance between the 0.01% at the top and the bottom 20% or so against the middle 80%.
The only solution is the gradual realization of the rules by everyone, both the political ones and much more importantly the spiritual ones, namely the fundamental unity of man: that we are all branches on the same tree, as it were, and that as a tree is harmed by damage to any of its branches, so are we. I know it sounds corny, but it's the truth. |
