We had no fences, no walls and no locks on our doors where my family came from. No one stole from us and we shared with our neighbors. But maybe that's hard to understand in the West
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We had no fences, no walls and no locks on our doors where my family came from. No one stole from us and we shared with our neighbors. But maybe that's hard to understand in the West
I began life in a town like that. It is the way that it should be. But to have a town like that, everyone in the town must be united and strongly bound together by culture and language and world view. To have that kind of harmony, you basically need to have only one race, only one religion, certainly only one language, and only one political viewpoint.
When you put different cultures together, they clash. There are powerful fundamental reasons for this. "Multicultural society" cannot work without becoming a police state, which burdens both liberty and economy. That is why each culture throughout human history has seized territory for itself.
Order is, per se, a good thing. If the current order is unjust, focus on making it just. But do not revolt against order. Abolishing borders would be stupid; it would harm many people.
That's interesting, where we grew up, it was a variety of religions with Muslims, Hindus and some other faiths. But they did have the same values. They all respected and cared for their neighbours.
If we cooked something special, we would always share it with our neighbors.
Maybe we should study why one society lives together while others feel the need to keep high fences and a hand gun
I think that the key is to understand that "ways of life" cannot compete for control over the same physical space. Think of "way of life" as the protocol by which individuals and groups interact with one another. As long as everyone agrees to conform to the same protocol, peaceful and mutually beneficial coexistence is possible.
For that to work, the distribution of property and of economic and political power must be just. If some groups are oppressed and other groups are privileged, then there will be trouble.
Agreed.
Have you read Homo Deus yet? I am reading it now it goes through these issues and looks at it from a historical and scientific perspective
My reading is limited to law cases these days. Usually an encounter with an intelligent person makes me feel like Rip van Winkle. In an almost literal sense, I live on a battlefield and I do and think in the ways that you would expect of someone dodging bullets. I am not here on steemit to pass the time. I am here to tell my story, a shocking story that I hope will become a call for help that people will respond to.
I am pleased your on here @ideafarm
I look forward to hearing your story.
I might be doing a book review of Homo Deus, so you can get a condensed version of the key principles. Do look out for it in the next few weeks :)
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