RE: POLL: As an Atheist, What Do You View as Being the Most Rational Political Outlook?
May 2, 2012 at 5:42 am
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2012 at 5:47 am by NoMoreFaith.)
All of them.
The are all developed to answer a question about how society should and could be run. Within their own realms they are all feasible, and capable of ensuring a sound society which benefits the masses (for the most part).
Which is most suitable for the society depends largely on the context of the world it currently survives in, its developed social ideology and technological status, and what is the most rational method at this point in time. Until the invention of the banking system, capitalism would have been an impossibility to work, and this ties in with the technological status at that time.
Societies exist to survive, and that requires adaptability, not a "perfect utopian" political system that can never exist. Communism for instance, is extremely viable, but has never really truly existed, mainly because it has never been timely for it to survive. Communism has no place for class differences or dictatorships, and most have had one or the other. Russia at its worst was never more than a form of failing socialism.
So my only answer, can be to vote for all of them, even feudalism had its place in context of the time it existed, the problems occur mainly when the political system out survives the zeitgeist which ushered it in, and a great many of the systems require violence to overthrow.
In time, capitalism will die off, just like all the other societies have, maybe not any time soon, but it would be naive to state that THIS system is the one that's going to survive for all time, given the history of social change.
Democratic or Republican ideologies exist only to reflect the social opinions of the time, and by default can never be correct as social opinion is always evolving and changing, sometimes by the decade.
The are all developed to answer a question about how society should and could be run. Within their own realms they are all feasible, and capable of ensuring a sound society which benefits the masses (for the most part).
Which is most suitable for the society depends largely on the context of the world it currently survives in, its developed social ideology and technological status, and what is the most rational method at this point in time. Until the invention of the banking system, capitalism would have been an impossibility to work, and this ties in with the technological status at that time.
Societies exist to survive, and that requires adaptability, not a "perfect utopian" political system that can never exist. Communism for instance, is extremely viable, but has never really truly existed, mainly because it has never been timely for it to survive. Communism has no place for class differences or dictatorships, and most have had one or the other. Russia at its worst was never more than a form of failing socialism.
So my only answer, can be to vote for all of them, even feudalism had its place in context of the time it existed, the problems occur mainly when the political system out survives the zeitgeist which ushered it in, and a great many of the systems require violence to overthrow.
In time, capitalism will die off, just like all the other societies have, maybe not any time soon, but it would be naive to state that THIS system is the one that's going to survive for all time, given the history of social change.
Democratic or Republican ideologies exist only to reflect the social opinions of the time, and by default can never be correct as social opinion is always evolving and changing, sometimes by the decade.
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If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
