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Capitalism is purely an economic model, so I doubt it has feelings of any kind. But hey, maybe panpsychism is real.
That being said, it's a system ultimately devised by and perpetuated by human beings who, as far as we know, can think and feel, so if capitalism is "unfeeling" it's because the humans practicing it are behaving in unethical/immoral ways.
Ultimately what is causing the crisis of the western world and its economy is the lack of ethics and morality. Nietzsche said "God is dead, and we have killed him" not in the sense that he was happy about this. Though a huge critic of Christianity and religion in general, he saw that western civilization had been successful in stripping away its underlying moral foundation. Without such a foundation, it leaves populations wide open for rule by despots. Which interestingly enough, is precisely what happened.
Whether people like it or not, western civilization was indeed built upon a Christian foundation. It dictated the morals and ethics by which a population was expected to live by. Enter postmodern thought, whose proponents claim that such a morality was like a chain on the human mind and will. Now they state that the mind and will don't exist at all. You see it everywhere, from the justice system ("if determinism is true, can you punish someone for stealing, since it was predetermined that they were going to steal from birth onward?") to fat acceptance ("I cannot be held accountable for my fatness, since I was born this way"). Born this way. Sound familiar?
Decades upon decades later, there still is no gay gene, no transgender gene (or mechanism of action for that matter) no fat gene. Yet, we were born this way.
The way I see it, it's an offshoot of Behaviorism. The notion within psychology that humans are big organic machines, nothing more. And as such, if science can find the mechanism, they can exploit that mechanism toward ones own ends.
This idea that we have no free will, no self determinism, that we are hostages to our biology is so endemic to western society, most people don't realize they actually think this way.
Further research has shown that behaviorism was highly flawed, and an incomplete model of the human psyche. But it's just so damned convenient to have your populace believe they are organic automatons. Let Daddy Government tell you what to be, how to be and why to be.
This is why western civilization is in chaos. We have lost our moral foundation, and are desperately clinging to whatever snake oil is being sold.
Marxism, socialism, postmodernism are all snake oil. Postmodernism is absurd to any thinking individual and Marxism and socialism have failed anywhere they've been tried.
While capitalism, and religion for that matter, have their faults, the capitalist society with underlying Christian moral roots has done more to lift the most people out of poverty than any other system ever devised by man.
Let us not throw the baby out with the bath water.
I say this all as a non-Christian, btw (agnostic).
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Capitalism is purely an economic model, so I doubt it has feelings of any kind. But hey, maybe panpsychism is real.
That being said, it's a system ultimately devised by and perpetuated by human beings who, as far as we know, can think and feel, so if capitalism is "unfeeling" it's because the humans practicing it are behaving in unethical/immoral ways.
Ultimately what is causing the crisis of the western world and its economy is the lack of ethics and morality. Nietzsche said "God is dead, and we have killed him" not in the sense that he was happy about this. Though a huge critic of Christianity and religion in general, he saw that western civilization had been successful in stripping away its underlying moral foundation. Without such a foundation, it leaves populations wide open for rule by despots. Which interestingly enough, is precisely what happened.
Whether people like it or not, western civilization was indeed built upon a Christian foundation. It dictated the morals and ethics by which a population was expected to live by. Enter postmodern thought, whose proponents claim that such a morality was like a chain on the human mind and will. Now they state that the mind and will don't exist at all. You see it everywhere, from the justice system ("if determinism is true, can you punish someone for stealing, since it was predetermined that they were going to steal from birth onward?") to fat acceptance ("I cannot be held accountable for my fatness, since I was born this way"). Born this way. Sound familiar?
Decades upon decades later, there still is no gay gene, no transgender gene (or mechanism of action for that matter) no fat gene. Yet, we were born this way.
The way I see it, it's an offshoot of Behaviorism. The notion within psychology that humans are big organic machines, nothing more. And as such, if science can find the mechanism, they can exploit that mechanism toward ones own ends.
This idea that we have no free will, no self determinism, that we are hostages to our biology is so endemic to western society, most people don't realize they actually think this way.
Further research has shown that behaviorism was highly flawed, and an incomplete model of the human psyche. But it's just so damned convenient to have your populace believe they are organic automatons. Let Daddy Government tell you what to be, how to be and why to be.
This is why western civilization is in chaos. We have lost our moral foundation, and are desperately clinging to whatever snake oil is being sold.
Marxism, socialism, postmodernism are all snake oil. Postmodernism is absurd to any thinking individual and Marxism and socialism have failed anywhere they've been tried.
While capitalism, and religion for that matter, have their faults, the capitalist society with underlying Christian moral roots has done more to lift the most people out of poverty than any other system ever devised by man.
Let us not throw the baby out with the bath water.
I say this all as a non-Christian, btw (agnostic).