by Bruce Allen

Created on: October 09, 2009   Last Updated: October 10, 2009

The tragedy that has come to the United States and the ideology that has created it must somehow be explained, if at the very least an attempt to explain it as accurately as is humanly possible without perfect clarity. That much, the general public deserves. I will start this proposition with a modest effort to say that no human being has yet to formulate a concrete explanation of why humans do what they do.

We try very hard to understand ourselves on a collective level by building stereotypes and models that only half-way describe what the purpose of our activities on this planet are. Socialism, Communism, Capitalism, Corporatism, Fascism, Democracy. In reality, humans are all of the above no matter what country they live in. A philosophy that combines all of them, would resemble chaos theory more than any other economic or sociologists definition.

Too much emphasis on classifications are taught in schools, when each and every single one of them have astounding self-contradictions and are inherently way too flawed to build a coherent, stable society where knowledge and truth dictate what we do as a collective.

Since trying to define what the purpose of our civilization is at best like trying to organize a hybrid mixture of all the grandiose opinions and conflicting individual ego's and systems that compose our planet, I will have to compromise here and make a sketchy outline without accuracy.

If, hypothetically speaking, an alien being landed in my front lawn from a distant galaxy and asked me in our language, "What is the purpose of your civilization?" I would reply "To be a productive member of society, and to acquire wisdom from a lifelong commitment to learning, often from mistakes."

The alien would then reply, "Define productive." And I would say. "Well, productive means to accomplish your goals or in a collective sense to build or enhance the civilization in the best way that I can, given the skills and talent that my creator has given me." I make the assumption here that the majority of people that read this feel the same way.

I use this analogy because an alien being would be the least impressionable life form I can think of and that some human activities are not productive, they are the complete opposite, whether the individuals participating in these activities are conscious of it or not. Economist's will defend their position until death that the action of trading paper or loaning money at interest is, in fact, "work." although this is highly debatable.

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