Hi Seth friends, what happens when the valued inner ideal of cooperation becomes translated through the outward Darwinian idea of competition? Heres Seth: “In your country, the free enterprise system...is immersed in strange origins. It is based upon the democratic belief in each individuals right to pursue a worthy and equitable life. “But that also became bound up with Darwinian ideas of the survival of the fittest, and with the belief, then, that each individual must seek his or her own good at the expense of others, and by the quite erroneous conception that all of the members of a given species are in competition with each other. ... “The ideal of the country was and is an excellent one: the right of each individual to pursue an equitable, worthy existence, with dignity. The means, however, have helped erode that ideal, and the public interpretation of Darwins principles was, quite unfortunately, transferred to the economic area, and to the image of man as a political animal. ... This is carried through in economics, politics, medicine, the sciences, and even the religions. “So I would like to reinforce the fact that life is indeed a cooperative venture, and that all the steps taken toward the ideal must of themselves be life-promoting.” The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 868
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:56:08 +0000
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