XPost: alt.politics.libertarian, alt.politics, alt.politics.socialism   
   From: roger4911@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:16:04 -0500, John Galt wrote:   
      
   > With that, I must conclude with Putnam: that the larger and more diverse   
   > that societies become, the less interested people are in the welfare of   
   > their neighbor. And, without evidence to the contrary, I have to suspect   
   > ideologies which assume we can be other that what we are.   
      
   You, and Putnam, are missing the most important factor.   
      
   The change of the culture from a tribal traditional culture to a big city,   
   world citizen secular culture.   
      
   The problems you describe are transitional problems, as the old culture is   
   dissolving but still scares people away from the social field, and the new   
   culture has not yet taken over.   
      
   These problems are worse in religiously devoted countries, like USA and the   
   middle east. In the rest of the world the transition is less problematic.   
      
   When the old culture, dominated by aggression, the submission to fear is   
   over the people can meet again, free of old hierarchic social dominance.   
      
   The rules in the capitalist society, the property rules, the wage slavery,   
   the social inequality is a defence for the old cultural pattern and is   
   hindering the individual from being free and not afraid or socially   
   dominated.   
      
   The new rules in my system will free people from the tribal old cultural   
   patterns.   
      
   We will reach that point in history anyway, but we can save ourselves a   
   thousand years of problems and struggle by adopting the new economic and   
   political rules I suggest.   
      
   Read about the conflict between theism and humanism to further understand   
   this:   
      
   http://www.humanists.org/hum_lamont.htm   
      
   http://humanist.250free.com/   
      
      
   --   
   Roger J.   
      
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