Taking and managing risk is also an acquired skill.
Like riding a bike or swimming in the sea.
Only nowadays the key word is safety. Safety, not safety net.
We are taught to avoid risk, at all costs, instead of how to lend a helping hand towards the fallen ones.
This is why we pay lip service to entrepreneurship but despise failure… as if it were possible to have one without the other.
Why does Marxism still exist when it clearly doesn’t work?
Marxism still works…
Marxism is a dogma. Despite everything pretended by marxists, marxism – as an ideology – is an article of faith. And as long as there are believers who continue to promote a faith, any faith, that faith continues to survive. To work…
On the other hand, there is a non-ideological side of marxism. A pre-ideological component, if you will.
The analysis made by Marx before reaching his conclusion. Before reaching the conclusion that communism is ‘the answer’…
The analysis was correct. Furthermore, even some of his predictions had been right. Our current obsession, induced by Milton Friedman, with profit as the ultimate goal of human activity has led us into an impasse.
But Marx’s solution – to a very accurately defined problem – was an abject failure. Communism was a failure. Each and every time!
But marxism still works… We, some of us, continue to believe according to this ideology…
What we call reality exists.
Regardless of us being able to faithfully express whatever we know about it.
Regardless of how much of what we know we are willing to share with others.
Regardless of some of us using their knowledge to impose themselves upon the less knowledgeable.
The irrefutable proof about reality being a fact is not that we have chosen to call it so. Or even to call it at all.
The irrefutable proof that reality is factual is, duh, another fact.
That nobody, no matter how knowledgeable, powerful or both at the same time, has ever been able to impose their will upon the said reality for any significant length of time.
No dictator has ever been able to consistently subdue a people. To kill it, yes. To consistently subdue it, NO. Lately, most of them have also lost an erstwhile relatively common ability… that of bequeathing their power to their intended successor.
No scientist has ever been able to pretend they really knew what they were talking about. No genuine scientist, that is… That they have a clue… yes. Of course!
A fair understanding of what’s going on… that is increasingly plausible.
That at least one of the above possesses the ultimate knowledge/power about even the minutest portion of reality…
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