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  • The same could be said for almost any "ism". Most isms are born from a single part of what is already born into human nature. Obviously, human nature itself is far more complex than any single 'ism'.

  • Notes, from other sources, which I copied because I thought (at the time) they were of value:

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    The MOQ ("Metaphysics of Quality" invented by Robert Pirsig) recognises capitalism as a social value pattern and, as such, secondary to intellectual value patterns such as truth, justice and freedom.

    In the MOQ making money is a social activity that should not dominate the higher intellectual goal of truth, or interfere with perception and pursuit of Dynamic Quality. (Pirsig, 2002d)
    • "there is no preordained harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind."

      friedrich nietzsche.
    • Money can only fulfill our short-term demand. If we were in desert, we would spend a lot of money to acquire a drop of water. But if we had a lot of rain, we would spend a lot of money just for a ray of sunshine. Water, sunshine cannot value their importance of their own. Only money can tell their relative value under particular circumstances.

      I just wonder how we spend money just for fulfilling our short-time demand. Before we eat dinner, we spend some money for it, but after we ate it, we wouldn't spend t

  • was that every thing has two values: what someone will pay for it and what someone will sell it for.
    • Oh, you shed light on the market in feature of capitalism, there are so many demands, thus so many supplies. Because there is a difference in value between seller and buyer, the difference generates the viablility.
  • Except instead of a variety of things, the essense of capitalism is a variety of goals.
  • "People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black." -Henry Ford.
    • We need to have a healthy social strata in order to have capitalism flourish fully. The essence of capitalism shoud be built on it. But how to have a healthy society, that's the question.
      • In terms of diet and exercise kind of health, routine maintenance, that is purely up the efforts of the individual members of society and there should be nothing more done for it. A people who are unwilling to keep themselves fit are not worthy of greatness. (Which doesn't bode well for the USA...)

        Issues of health that go beyond the control of individuals, such as chemical waste being dumped in drinking water, does need to be addressed in some other manner, though the exact nature of how to deal with will

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