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LadyEllen -> RE: Political Landscape (9/16/2010 8:24:38 PM)
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The dividing line in this century is the same as it has been forever to this day - on one side those who decide who shall eat and on the other those who produce the food. By whatever names they are called, by whatever groups and subgroups they might be divided or divide into, by whatever mechanisms each finds himself on one side of the line or the other, this is an eternal state of affairs for human kind.
The politics and philosophies of yore may have argued for shifting this line, manipulating it, even and ultimately fruitlessly removing it, and yet here we are, still.
The lesson is to devise a philosophy by which it might be us on the more favourable side of the line, by whatever means necessary. And as the global population grows and resources dwindle, not to mention as the globalisation trend continues and strengthens, this becomes a more urgent endeavour than ever before. It is he who controls and decides that shall prosper in the future and he who like any good slave gladly and without complaint trades his soul for bread and a little water that shall suffer and be confirmed on the wrong side of the line ever after.
This means competition, confrontation and conflict and an end to cooperation save for the mutual pursuit of the primary goal of control. Perhaps then the dividing line politically and philosophically will be, as it has been a prominent mechanism through history for deciding where the line shall fall, between those who believe in cooperation and those who feel that conflict is the inevitable arbiter in the rush for resources.
It is my view that, despite a preference for cooperative approaches, these will ultimately fail when basic resources of land, food and water become so over-subscribed by a growing global population that fair shares are no longer sufficient consideration to prevent a grab for a greater share through conflict - on whatever scale.
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