Originally posted by Fist of
[email protected] 27 2005, 12:40 AM
I once thought about what I would do if I wanted to be truly happy. It would include moving tosome obscure and rural location where I would live with a dog or too and no one else. I would hunt, fish, and grow my own food. In my free time I would reflect on my past and write countless books on myself, others, and philosophy. I would totally disappear from modern society. It would be great, but then I realized that escaping capitalism would not destroy capitalism. I realized that I need to live a life of service to others. I must fight for them. As you can see simplicity is bliss as my perfect life showed.
Who stops you from doing this? Don't you have a right to your one and only life? Why not? Why does your life belong to everyone but you? If you want to live a good life with your dog all by yourself, which philosopher would be sick enough to tell you that you have to right to do this. You have every right. It's your life. That means that you can do with it whatever the fuck you want as long as you don't harm anyone else. And obviously you don't.
Hm. Why doesn't disappearance destroy capitalism. It is based on trade, or more precisely, on enforceable contracts. If you don't enter a contract, you at least won't add to capitalism. And if everyone did that, you would have the situation of no capitalism in the formal sense. Imagine there's a war and nobody comes.
Capitalism, as socialism, are basically political systems, that is: they deal with how you should interact with other people. If you don't deal with other people, you don't need politics. All you need is ethics. And lots of it, if you wish to survive.