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It amuses me when i hear people defend social inequality

As "economics " and "human nature ". Its almost that these people think economy and human nature are static
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redredred · M
The Soviet Union pretty much proved human nature doesn’t change. The spent seventy years and forty million murders trying to change human nature and failed.
Guitarman123 · 36-40, M
@redredred human nature isn't static amd constantly changes. We aren't the same people we were five years ago.
Reason10 · 70-79, M
@redredred Try 200 million murders, from Stalin alone.
Guitarman123 · 36-40, M
@Reason10 just gonna murders that occure in America? And that stalin was reffered to as uncle joe in America during ww2 when ussr was allies with US and UK?
redredred · M
@Guitarman123 Sure we are. We are the same people who built the pyramids. Maslow described the hierarchy of needs among all humans. They don’t change really at all. The same intellectual curiosity that drove Pythagoras helped develop the James Webb telescope. The same love described in Romeo and Juliet exists today.
Guitarman123 · 36-40, M
@redredred we arent the same in the slightest. We adapt to our environment and history has changed drastically throughout the years. Nature itself changes all the time as do individual people. Even something as little as our personal tastes change and evolve. Humanity that was around during Shakespeare is totally alien to humanity today
redredred · M
@Guitarman123 then why does the literature of the 15th century resonate with us? Why does Twain still amuse us? Why are old movies still enjoyable? Why are the motions Aeschylus described still familiar?

Frankly, you’re talking nonsense.
Guitarman123 · 36-40, M
@redredred because people appreciate well written literature. We're fascinated by how the English language was expressed back then as its almost completely different to how it is now. Its a kinda gateway into the past which is especially interesting for those who enjoy history. We enjoy old movies for a completely different reason to how audiences did back then. As an audience today we've become accustomed to how films are made so we can see the dated style, effects and attitudes of films from the 60s for example for what they are. Products of their time. Films are a great example of a field that has drastically changed. Look at the james bond films for example. Watch dr no and no time to die. The differences are strong and obvious that its difficult to see them as been in the same franchise
redredred · M
@Guitarman123 I’m sorry, no sale. King Lear speaks to me about pride, parental love, sibling rivalry, dementia, regret, and the ravages of age. Twain tells me about human vanity, the inherent humor of ignorance and human reaction to a wide open wilderness.

Human nature is unchanged in any important respect since the days of cave paintings. I do understand that one of the main (illusory) braces of Marxism is the supposed infinite mutability of the human being but every such experiment has failed. We are what we are and to try to prove otherwise leads to the gulags.
Guitarman123 · 36-40, M
@redredred monarchy is an absolute load of silly nonsense. Charles darwin even said that humans are social creatures who thrive of interaction with our fellow man. Hierarchy is just a socal construct in order to keep people under control. Unfortunately people like you fall for it because they've convinced you that "human nature " is all about Hierarchy, selfishness and greed.
Guitarman123 · 36-40, M
@redredred humanity of the caveman days is nothing like now. To think it is is to have a severe basic education on how the world and culture works