Masopher's Mind

Communists really miss the point. I’ve heard enough to know they love to fly headlong into soft headed idealism and grandiose plans but the truth is that despite all the airy fairy thinking their minds are ground into the here and now and the physical world in front of their face. I’ll tell you why.

Capitalists are selfish creatures indeed but they hold onto one principle, you get yours I get mine and in the end everyone benefits. Capitalists believe in the invisible hand. 1+1+1=4. We all work hard for ourselves and if there ever comes a time when someone needs a hand
the excess work you did will benefit you but in the meantime it benefits us all.

Communists don’t believe in the invisible hand. They believe in the helping hand. You help me and I’ll help you or better yet I’ll help someone else and yet another will help you. A society of altruists happily paying it forward in a never ending ponzi scheme. This is 100% zero sum thinking. 1+1+1=3. Reasonable I suppose, mathematical, atheistic but overly simplistic.
Communists don’t believe in any extra forces or entities being in play hence two men working together aren’t a team but merely comrades. They believe in class conflicts because of this zero sum thinking. The industrialists or entrepreneurs owe the labourers a debt of wealth
because the maker of a shoe nail is as valuable as the seller of a shoe. If the shoe seller knew from the outset that his efforts would afford him no better than the shoe nail maker he wouldn’t have bothered to sell the shoes. Conversely if the shoe nail maker believes
his role is as valuable as a shoe seller, why does he not spontaneously start selling shoes? He can’t because he isn’t good at selling shoes, but hopefully he’s good at making nails and another is good at working leather and the third at making laces.

Industrialists and entrepreneurs are not selling nails or leather or laces they are selling shoes. They are not selling 1+1+1 they are selling 4 which does leave a “mystic” 1 left over after they pay out the worth of the parts. This is not unprecedented. You and I (as valuable as we see ourselves) could easily be disassembled into carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and miscellaneous elements. Under communist logic I should be able to kill you without repercussion because your body pre and post mortem has not changed. Materialism I believe.  Communists reject mysticism. People should get paid not for the value of their ideas but for being pieces
of meat.

Under capitalist logic, the whole is worth more than the parts and that value is in turn used to create and recreate far beyond what a 100-200 lb pile of elements would be able to. The parts don’t go sacrificing themselves for other parts or the idea of the whole either they just work hard for their own purpose and benefit.

Does mankind “owe” the rocks of this planet the wealth that we have created? We are no different from the flower fauna and base minerals after all. Should the sea rise up in revolution to ensure that the salty sweat of our brow does not receive the special treatment of being wiped away by a silk handkerchief? If such a revolution were to happen it would not be the seas will but our own arrogant folly that destroyed us.

Communists don’t understand life. They can’t understand it because they can’t see it weigh it on a scale or put it in their pocket. We all struggle in life, we all struggle with life. No matter how much money one has, we still have to pay bills, find happiness, look for sex, get
sick and die. Getting good things out of life can be a struggle and bad things happen quite easily. It’s because all those elements that made us are just elements and in the end that’s what they return to. Our struggle is to maintain and increase that added value that we call
life. When a perpetually poor man struggles and when a communist struggles they don’t know they are struggling for life and against non- life. They are blind to life and its added value. They look around at another person adding value to their life and all they see is the person. “He’s not struggling against life” the communist says, “He’s struggling against me”. He seems to be winning therefore I must be losing. (Zero sum thinking again) I want him and I to struggle just the same no one should win no one should lose. Nothing new should be created because nothing new can be created. The capitalist and rich man is creating life that may outlast his own the rich man is creating legacy. But the poor commie doesn’t understand this. The commie only understands legacy in the terms that the animals do; mating, plumage, fighting and making noise or gestures. So the commie sets about destroying the rich mans life either by murder or by murdering his legacy, dividing up the spoils so that they can mate, buy plumage, fight, make grand gestures and noises.

Fortunately commies have not murdered every legacy or legacy creator, so there is plenty of legacy left to generate more life. We are still able to generate this value added that benefits us all. How many commies benefit today from capitalist ideas without doing a single thing to actively bring it about? How many use the ideas as nothing more than pass-times to spend their days rather than tools to create wealth and better their lives.
Should it ever come to pass that the capitalists should empower commies enough to bring about their own destruction then it will be due to the capitalists own hubris. Then we will return to living like animals and the value added of mankind will cease to exist. The point that communists miss is that we will go back, not to self sacrificing beasts but to selfish capitalistic creatures.

There are 23 million miserable people living in the northern part of the eastern Asian peninsula called Korea.

When the USA kicked Japans ass in WWII, Korea became free game to the Chinese, Russian and victorious American forces. South Korea was occupied by the Americans, the North by China and from this occupied country, two occupied countries emerged, one communist the other capitalist. No where else in the world except in Germany did such a mashup exist, and once east germany rejoined Europe, North Korea stood alone, trading dangerous technology with renegade states like Iran, Syria and Venezuela. North Korea also leans heavily on China and post Communist Russia but mostly North Korea blackmails Japan and the United States with barely working missiles and laboratory made nuclear explosions.  

Japan one of the world’s wealthiest  nations, the USA, the worlds current empire and South Korea the manufacturing and technological student of the first two have reasons to worry about a nation in its death throes. Unlike the still functioning Russians and the successful neo-capitalist Chinese, the North Koreans have nothing but aging technology and an even more antiquated ideology to live on. Barely any electricity, fallow crops, international ostracism, a dying overpopulated land filled with depressed and disillusioned people.

While their literal cousins in the south work in a capitalist system they slave away under a communist system where detonating a nuke is the only state dictated source of pride. Instead of enjoying small victories in their personal lives, blowing up a bomb and threatening other countries is the only thing they have to be happy about.

Seriously. Fuck you North Korean workers party. 23 million of your own people held hostage under your backward system and millions more under threat by your backwards technology. Make communism work or shut the fuck up.

One cannot serve two masters.

The problem with communism and populism, looking out for the little guy, trying to clothe feed and clean the unwashed masses is that there are so damn many of them. You serve so many masters that all your work gets used up before it does any good. Everybody knows that when your attention is divided you don’t give proper attention to either task.

I came up from a poor background so I have a born and bred tendancy to be communist. Both my parents were bleeding heart and anti-establishment so naturally they neither courted nor could keep money. I grew up as all humans do being suspicious about things I didn’t know. Who are these rich people? Why didn’t they share? Why did they think they were special. Who made them rich?

As I grew up I learned the answers and to my surprise (even now!) I began respecting the rich more than I respected my own kind. Poor people love communism because communism promises that no matter how lazy you are you can get the same benefits as the guy who works his ass off every day. Politicians love communism as well because taking from the rich and shepherding a nation of sheep makes their overpaid jobs seem valid. It’s a lot of work ironing out society making sure that individuals and groups don’t work too hard or get too upity and intimidate others. A state of healthy educated equals grinning away as they work towards common goals is fantasy and dismissed as such even before Marx sat brooding in his London flat.

Another reason why poor and mentally disturbed people buy into communism and populist leaders is because their minds are still infantile and undeveloped. They are still fantasizing about the time they were still attatched to an umbilical chord benefitting from the diet and activities of their mother. People still love floating through life just growing hair and toe nails. Their second best would be an occasional bawl for a tit. People need to grow up.

Poverty is a disease a mental block a chicane that slows down society but also slows down the individual. If mom and dad, teacher, supervisor and government are always there to hold your hand then you never learn to run, jump or fly.