Aral Balkan
@scottehzxor “Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own society. If we were to be guided by the evolution principle, then we would be living in a kind of ultra-Thatcherite, Reaganite society.
Study your Darwinism for two reasons: because it explains why you’re here, and the second reason is, study your Darwinism in order to learn what to avoid in setting up society.”
– Richard Dawkins 1/2
Aral Balkan
@scottehzxor “What we need is a truly anti-Darwinian society. Anti-Darwinian in the sense that we don’t wish to live in a society where the weakest go to the wall, where the strongest suppress the weak, and even kill the weak. We—I, at least—do not wish to live in that kind of society. I want to live in the sort of society where we take care of the sick, where we take care of the weak, take care of the oppressed, which is a very anti-Darwinian society.”
– Richard Dawkins 2/2
Aral Balkan
@Cirdan @Loukas @scottehzxor I don’t think anarchy means what you think it means :)
Jonathan D. Cope, Esq.
@Loukas @aral @scottehzxor I agree that capitalism is brutal but there is a way to stop the more devastating aspects of capitalism, such as stopping capital accumulation while, at the same time, giving benefits to workers more akin to European social security without having to resort to anarchy.
Loukas Christodoulou
I would go one step further and say that what we see as the market selecting the fittest is actually a system that desperately relies on community, sharing, mutual aid and kindness, but which does not include those things in its metrics. They are unmeasured and invisible but without them the whole system would collapse.
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