Posted June 10, 2014
monkeydelarge: I don't believe it's a world of social Darwinism. I believe, it all comes down to destiny.
toxicTom: Believing in destiny is your choice (or not, if you're destined to *g*). For me this a too fatalistic approach. I'm kind of agnostic towards the idea of Karma - you reap what you sow either later or in the next life. It's a nice idea but it has this (for me too optimistic) concept that bad people will get punished eventually and good people will always get their reward. Just like the heaven/hell concept of other religions. Something to get the good people that suffer going (and keep them in line) while the bad people just don't give a fuck. But I'm curious, I've come across multiple flavours of destiny-belief, care to elaborate yours?
I believe that the world around me (Germany that is) slowly descends into social darwinism. The interhuman climate has cooled down considerably in the last 20 years or so. The kiss-up-kick-down principle rules all layers of society. Those who panickedly work their ass off for minimum for fear of losing their job and living from meager welfare are the first to blame those poor welfare dependent sods for having too much and only being lazy. While the truth is that those people are forced to apply for any job at almost any condition and this is pushing the wages down.
Social envy is all the rage, but the perversion is that the working people envy the poor instead of looking where all that surplus goes that they are creating.
Post edited June 10, 2014 by monkeydelarge