The world is only origami because there's time for everything except the things worth doing. If I spend all my time concerned with the problems of the world I might end up going insane and start having an appreciation of Andy Warhol's art. (Bad jokes aside) I think that the best path for me to take is a simple one fold at a time. One day I will make something, what, who knows, for now, left corner to right.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

I had put away my labour, and my leisure too, for his civility.

I think that any complex government created purely in theory among many wise philosophers will work, in theory. But I think the problem with theory arises when it is attempted to be but into practice. Humans tend to give other humans the benefit of the doubt. The Communist Manifesto is a great example of this. The book creates a great example of a perfect sounding theory, but when attempted to be put into use it starts to crumble. But it is about the book and not the use of it, so I think the book spent a little to much time telling how to create a perfect utopia but never tells how to fix it when it starts to crumble due to human greed. I think that if the philosophers focused on both sides of ideal government, what is ideal and how to keep it ideal, the book would of helped governments that tried to implemented communist governments from getting corrupt as quickly.     
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  1. EvanNovember 11, 2010 at 3:14 PM

    I agree with your statement, but I think you overgeneralized (pardon my lack of a better word) a bit. I agree with you- a lot of governments, if not every one, can be ruined by humans. Monarchy fails when the leaders are corrupt. Communism/Socialism fails when there is not enough capital raised or when the people are unhappy due to the whole the whole "unfairness vs. equality" debate. Democracy/Capitalism fails when the people are not accurately represented (VOTE, people!), when greedy corporate tycoons facilitate financial ruin in order to make a quick buck, and when majority of the people are ignorant about the important issues, and therefore elect incompetent politicians (no further comment on that one). However, that doesn't mean that every government is doomed to complete imperfection. Every government has its flaws which are brought about by the people of its nation. However, I believe that if people can strive to better their government, whatever type it may be, then it can be (almost) perfect.

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  2. MelissaNovember 14, 2010 at 8:45 AM

    YES! I know you're not done with this, but i still agree. It's the little things, like personailty and greed and unpredictable events that cause perfectly good theories like socialism to fail. Although, of course, this is an inherent flaw of their doctrine... And the fact that it cannot account for such factors, because of the nature of socialsim/ other such goverments. It's a Catch-22! Now we all must run away to Sweden... on a raft...

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  3. Miss RichardsonNovember 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM

    I'm glad you read this- I think students have a lot to learn from the Communist Manifesto. At least when I was introduced to communism in high school it was with the Red Scare era and I thought communism= bad, democracy = good. But after reading the Communist Manifesto, you learn that the theory isn't bad. Especially when you think about it within the context it was written. You can see why the theory would arise- and you can see that the theory isn't inherently bad, its the practice that turned out negatively.

    Is communism ever practical? Are humans too selfish for the theory of communism to ever play out?

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