tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21001963.post6333106073278480346..comments2023-10-26T20:05:14.669+07:00Comments on intrepid flame: A Monopoly of IdeologyJabizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15060918134697370964noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21001963.post-56775371579597414352008-11-11T17:09:00.000+07:002008-11-11T17:09:00.000+07:00Good post!Of course the system we are in has also ...Good post!<BR/><BR/>Of course the system we are in has also taught us what to think - whether it's through schooling, or, more powerfully, through advertising and the values displayed in the trash pumped through our TV screens - from cartoons to intellectual dramas and documentaries. There's no conspiracy to brain wash us - it just happens that the people with the power tend to only allow broadcast of stuff that supports their values.<BR/><BR/>Hence we get intelligent people like albtraum who think that profit has driven society for ever. Not true!<BR/><BR/>Self interest may be at the root of things, but for most of our existence self interest has been best served by helping each other - not by exploitation or wanton profit. <BR/><BR/>If you lived in a largely self-sufficient community of say 20 folk and you operated on 'profit' you'd soon find people got sick of it and you'd not have anyone to help you to build your next house or hunt your next mammoth....The Speaking Goathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415671204320976076noreply@blogger.com