Sunday, May 4, 2008
Morality & Market Capitalism...
During the class discussion morality and market capitalism interested me in particular because the terms exhibit fundamental animal behavior from my perspective. Shows like "Meerkat Manor" and studies of penguin mating rituals display evidence constantly. The male penguin with the nicest pebble/rock for the female earns mating rights with her. Sound familiar? Meerkats discipline family members for breaking social rank, and attack or retaliate rival family groupings. Our society values materialistic stature and competes for family benefit in the workforce against environmental surroundings for an advantage. I think Morality is not a human construction because even in other animal groupings these boundaries of behavior are in place. The organisms do not term it as "morality" but they recognize their role and expectations within a group and often punishment (banishment) may occur for misbehavior, like our dysfunctional prison system. I don't think Market Capitalism is a human construction either because of its existence among other organisms in nature.
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Happy to see another like-minded view of Market Capitalism as existing naturally in non-human societies. We are good examples of the degree to which the objective is determined -accurately, inaccurately, or partially accurate - by the subjective. Who gets to make the final determination of the trueness of a perceived reality? It cannot lie with the majority of thinkers. But society would benefit from some shared criteria facilitating real growth, wouldn't it? I wax philosophical.
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