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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (3329)	11/14/2000 12:07:41 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

Greg, I was merely offering a rational explanation that met with all the facts. The truth is that in many ways Marx was right (both Groucho and Karl). The problem with Marxism is a belief that there is a nobility in the human spirit which will prevent people from finding the easy way out or taking more than they need. As a utopian philosophy, Marxism isn't bad because it does value the individual and tries to liberate them from their self-imposed chains. But, as a political system, it has never worked because when people have tried it, the major weakness of it (cited above) appears. It is conceptually unable to deal with the facts of personal human greed. I've met a lot of people who don't seem overly concerned with the dangers of group-think. A personal philosophy (whether it involves Jesus or the Cosmic Force) is benign by definition. But it is when those collectively held belief systems interfere with the processing of information by the larger society that they even become a problem. I think of them as two stable crystal phases: that of belief and that of reason. They are both stable and both have their place. They are not interchangeable nor are they compatible. At most they can coexist.