It's interesting that socialism is a hot topic right now. The idea that if we would all just pool our resources together and only take what we need to survive is appealing to many, but after seeing so much greed and abuse I understand that it would ruin us as a country in the long run.
But I posed a question to my college-age son recently: Most of the people that think socialism is a good idea that we should fully implement also believe that evolution is the way life goes. How do people handle having such opposing views?
He couldn't see my point so asked me to explain. I told him about how socialism in it's purist form is a large group of people pooling everything they have and someone doling out from that pool of resources to members of the group as it is needed. If you have more you give more, if need more you get more. That's the concept as I understand it.
Evolution is based on the idea that only the strong survive and thrive. Survival of the fittest. Eat or be eaten. And as your kind of creature procreates your strong genes will make future generations of your kind strong and able to survive.
So in my looking at this the idea of pooling our resources so all can survive is almost directly opposite of only the strong survive.
He laughed and got it then. He laughed really hard and long. When he caught his breath he said he would have to bring this up with the Che wanna-be's in his dorm hall and see how they handled it.
I'm looking forward to hearing the results of his conversations with them.
