Before I start killing myself with schoolwork today, I should get this over with. I just ate pancakes, sausage, hashbrowns, and cheesy potatoes. Can we say "backed up?" I just know it's gonna be troublesome.
Our snow is almost gone, because it's been raining all morning. It's not really that much fun to watch go away, and I realized that when I move somewhere else, I want the snow to stay all winter.
Here's the other thought I had the other day (remember how I was saying that I would write about it later? Here it is.) For those of you that don't know, which I guess might be a lot of you because I am not very open about it unless I know people are going to be receptive to my opinions, I am a little bit of a socialist. I tend to give a little bit of validity to Marx's writings, and I think the main reason they haven't come to pass is that in the places that it could have worked, communism was forced. Marx writes that it can't be, that it comes naturally. SO. Social conditions have to be right for socialism and eventually communism to take place.
As a side note, because I know what you're thinking (other than "This guy's a LUNATIC,") I don't think it can work in America, not now at least, because the way the wealth is spread out in this country makes most people a bourgeoisie (people who own the means of production,) the very people who are to be overthrown when communism "inevitably" occurs. The proletariat (working class) isn't large enough for this to happen. Yet.
So. The very idea of socialism is that the government essentially takes care of everything for you. Yeah, you pay a lot of taxes, but you would have government provided health care and so on. Yes. It also means that there's no private property, an idea I struggle with because I like my stuff. Marx also suggests doing away with family structure, saying it's a way of keeping wealth in the hands of a few, which I sort of agree with but I wouldn't go so far as to abolish the family structure.
We are all familiar with capitalism, at least in practice. This is essentially a merit system. The harder you work, the more you get, and the more you get, the "better you are" in terms of society.
This is my thought. I base my political or ideological beliefs (or whatever) on a certain passage in the Bible, Acts 4:32-7. Godly communism. At least that's how I interpret it. And I got to thinking: what part of salvation is a merit system? By grace. Through faith. It's not of ourselves, it's a gift from God. And no one can gain it themselves.
Ok. So maybe it's not that profound. But I thought it was worth sharing. It's now time to do homework.
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Ah!! You struck a chord with universal health care! I'm personally for it. It may be a "difficult" change for some people, but the benefits would outweigh those challenges to change. I had a classmate in dental hygiene from Romania and she gave quite the testimony for it and how it helped her family when they lived there. The only problem is that some doctors do work under the table that is above standard care. Really, until we can get the greed out of people (which will never happen), this system won't be perfect, but it would be better.
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