[lit-ideas] Re: Ye Olde Dialectic
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:48:43 -0400
Robert: P. Government will do what charities now do if charities
stop doing it.
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When I called this "don't give to charities/show the government's
failings" thread a Marxist notion, it was to imply that it is
miserabilist. In other words, for things to get better for people,
things must first get very bad indeed, so that people will take
action of some kind to force a change in government.
Suppose charitable contributions drop to zero. Everyone has to rely
on government funds and action to solve problems they cannot solve
(or solve well) by themselves. Everything falls apart because
government never had to provide for the well being of its citizens
without charitable backup.
Would things just stay bad? Or would people demand, out of this
chaos and misery, that government be "of the people, by the people,
for the people"?
It might propel us into a dark age. Or it might unify the people as
we have never, ever, even in world wars, been unified before.
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