This week while discussing Marx and communism, I spent a lot of time thinking about what would make the "ideal society" in terms of leadership, community etc... It seems that the most obvious factor keeping humans from existing harmoniously together is simply difference in opinion, skill, or wealth. Communism does seem appealing to extent in the way that it should, in theory, unite people despite their differences. My theory, however, is that as long as the differences still exist, there will always be conflict and jealousy in society. We could try to elimate imalances in wealth and social status through Communism but there will always be differences in appearance, physical ability, and capability to learn certain skills. In middle school, I had to read a very strange, but interesting, short story (I don't remember the name) about a society in which these difference were to be eliminated. Former dansers had to wear sand bags on their ancles, and news reporters with attractive voices had to disguise their speech. Needless to say, the story ended in chaos. I believe we are destined to be in conflict with eachother to the end of time, because there is no way to eliminate all of our differences.
Even if we could, would we really want to?
Our differences make us unique, and life would be uninteresting without them (in my opinion)
The very popular story "The Giver" also comes to mind.
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I think that my favorite piece of this whole statement is that you specifically say that there is no perfect organization to what can and must be. This is such a true statement, and a lot of people underestimate it. What people don't realize is that no matter how much you disagree with certain things about life, there can never be something that satisfies every single opinion. We each need our own little slice of heaven that is reserved for the ones that you are compatible with and can share a view of perfection.
ReplyDeleteWhen it really comes down to it though, you are sort of right, we need some chaos in life to make things interesting from time to time. We are tragic creatures, we strive only for our own perfection in the world, but even if we could have it, there would be so little to occupy our mind, because in the "perfect world" there is nothing left to strive for.
This is a tricky problem to overcome, but the real answer is humbling: we can only have true perfection when we allow ourselves to enjoy the simple things, like gardening for food, and sewing your own clothing... (What is so bad about doing the dishes by hand sometimes?) My point is that we don't need to spend to much time looking for a group to conform to, we should just be, and appreciate how much fun it can be to just exist. :-)