> >Yes, you're right, it could only worked if
> >power and privilages were not involved in the
> >decision-making process and all the
> >channels of information were totally
> >transparent for everyone. Guess what -
> >this means an alternative social structure...
> >
> >
> >Eva
>
>
> I guess we'll have to wait till we get to heaven. Throughout human history,
> many social structures have been tried, and power and privilege have existed
> in all of them. I fail to understand how can anyone can believe that our
> essential nature as humans - part angel, part brute, part compassionate,
> part cruel, part intelligent and thoughful, part stupid and cruel,
> essentially tribal - can be changed simply by altering the institutions
> through which we work as societies. How much proof do we need that we are
> what we are?
>
Classless society happened to humans for 100K + years,
our relatively short written history chronicled only the
class society that also happened to us - with it's
exploitation, privilege, cruelty, etc.
I cannot see why we couldn't make it again - this
time because we want to and can.
We all prefer to be intelligent,
trying to be compassionate, thoughtful etc. and when
we cannot control those animal behaviours we call ourself
"inhumane" or even "animal" so why should should we aim
to live down to
this model if it is not absolutely
necessary? Who says it is?
I don't know about you, but in my getting to be longish
life I haven't met people who aimed at the "animal"
category. And I travelled quite widely.
Eva
> Ed Weick
>
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