Cooperation vs Competition
Posted by NickSousa 10 years, 9 months ago to The Gulch: General
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“Francisco was right in AS1. This IS a war and we have to take sides. The problem is that I think its too late to prevent the apocalypse of socialism in the USA. The great mass of people who dont think will only abandon socialism when its failure is right there in front of them (which means the apocalypse). Look at Venezuela- its nearly collapsed and there isnt a revolution yet !!”
I suppose it all depends on what you value. If you are a child, then collecting play money in order to buy lots of toys to play with would be the pinnacle of your existence. Competing against others, collecting accolades and trophies, striving to win and “be better” than others – these are all products of people’s isolated consciousness, where they view other people as a commodity or something to go to war against.
If you are an adult, then there is nothing on this planet that you value higher than ensuring people’s safety, providing people the basics in life so that they can have dignity while on this planet, and ensuring that people’s lives are treated equally despite any ability or lack thereof on the part of everyone within the community.
Ayn Rand’s ideas are childish, because she places value on creating division instead of unity. We can see the result of this divisiveness all around us – corporations hoarding trillions of dollars and not paying taxes, people systematically being kept poor, individuals competing against everyone else, etc. Instead of cooperating with one another, people want to feed their own vanity and selfishness by competing against the entire world. This causes untold amounts of suffering and strife.
You may think that socialism/communism would be the end of the world as you know it, but in reality the ideals of unity and cooperation are the cornerstone of any advanced civilization. People strive to “be better” and “have more” than others in order to bolster their own sense of self worth – these types of children don’t realize their own inner beauty and magnificence, so they try to stymy any feelings of worthlessness by drowning their own insecurities with a pile of useless toys.
Let’s all put the toys down and contribute to society not because we have to, but because we want to advance our society. Instead of contributing for the sake of buying toys to play with, let’s all come together and make our society better because it is the right thing to do.
“Francisco was right in AS1. This IS a war and we have to take sides. The problem is that I think its too late to prevent the apocalypse of socialism in the USA. The great mass of people who dont think will only abandon socialism when its failure is right there in front of them (which means the apocalypse). Look at Venezuela- its nearly collapsed and there isnt a revolution yet !!”
I suppose it all depends on what you value. If you are a child, then collecting play money in order to buy lots of toys to play with would be the pinnacle of your existence. Competing against others, collecting accolades and trophies, striving to win and “be better” than others – these are all products of people’s isolated consciousness, where they view other people as a commodity or something to go to war against.
If you are an adult, then there is nothing on this planet that you value higher than ensuring people’s safety, providing people the basics in life so that they can have dignity while on this planet, and ensuring that people’s lives are treated equally despite any ability or lack thereof on the part of everyone within the community.
Ayn Rand’s ideas are childish, because she places value on creating division instead of unity. We can see the result of this divisiveness all around us – corporations hoarding trillions of dollars and not paying taxes, people systematically being kept poor, individuals competing against everyone else, etc. Instead of cooperating with one another, people want to feed their own vanity and selfishness by competing against the entire world. This causes untold amounts of suffering and strife.
You may think that socialism/communism would be the end of the world as you know it, but in reality the ideals of unity and cooperation are the cornerstone of any advanced civilization. People strive to “be better” and “have more” than others in order to bolster their own sense of self worth – these types of children don’t realize their own inner beauty and magnificence, so they try to stymy any feelings of worthlessness by drowning their own insecurities with a pile of useless toys.
Let’s all put the toys down and contribute to society not because we have to, but because we want to advance our society. Instead of contributing for the sake of buying toys to play with, let’s all come together and make our society better because it is the right thing to do.
