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Old 11-02-2008, 03:06 PM   #18
dataeast
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Default Re: Zeitgeist Update

It's not a utopian society that is being proposed. It's a resource based economy which means that by birth (or some other means) you are allocated some portion of the local resources. There is no "elite" because you cannot own more than anyone else.

The argument is that people are born into an established society, which is by function corrupt, limited supply theory and competition, so it's the system that is the real source of corruption. Human nature is absolute but what is being proposed is not to change human nature but human culture which is relative. The premise is that our understanding or misunderstanding of human nature, as it is juxtaposed within our current relationship with our system (economic), is not a true measure of human nature because it is an expression of human behavior through a particular system. Behavior is relative, it can be anything, the evidence is around the world.

Last edited by dataeast; 11-02-2008 at 03:07 PM. Reason: grammar
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