That's very close to something i thought of posting to you last night, but couldn't find the words for it ... something like, 'It's not just about the money, it's the principals of the thing' ... a lot of the most effective law is unwritten, custom, taken for granted, 'One simply doesn't do that' or 'One does one's duty'
As our 'developed' societies get more coddled, and regulated, and entitled, and most of all larger, we lose sight of a sense of honour that was vitally necessary a few years ago ... going global means we're no longer tribal in an existential gut-feel sense, we're not bound together by fear and loathing of the anglosajones, or the bloody wogs, or whomever ... we don't fight the elements any more, in cities they don't even have soil to stick your feet in, and feel connected ... personal space gets smaller and more endangered in a world dominated by information collectors, the primary battle becomes one against the Machine, trying to preserve at least some shred of sovereign individuality, when in another age it would have felt perfectly natural and demanded by honour to take those orders and grab that rifle and go get pasted into the belgian mud by a Krupp shell ... how do we shift back to connectedness, without enemies to ally against? ... even with them, Marx's little plan didn't work out very well, it's pretty hard to engineer human mindsets on any meaningful scale |
