Hi. Recently, I had a discussion about politics in real life, and I just realized I couldnt answer when I was asked about my own worldview. I was hoping you guys could help me out put a label on it, since you people read books on the subject. I dont know, could be fun?
Now, I will tell you something about my opinions.
Market vs Socialism: I seriously dont even care because yes, I am not insane to think that the market is meritocratic, it's just that I dont think state socialism cant become just taking from the more productive and giving to the less productive, taxing the more productive more and taking it for yourself, pitting the more productive and less productive proles against each other, etc.
Market can get corrupted, but so can everything.
About the Nation vs the World: I honestly couldnt care. I think immigration is in itself neutral, good if we are taking in doctors and engineers, bad if we are taking in feral fundamentalist rapists and criminals who cant read and write.
About culture: I again dont really care, but I dislike 'culture police'. I think traditional values are fine if you like it, I think these new values (anti traditional, childless, feminist, drugs+tattoos, cowardly males and ugly females) are fine too but I personally dont understand them. I feel like culture had to do a bit with war, societies needed new batch of soldiers after wars, and they solved that in one way, but these new values I dont know what they are all about, but I am fine with all of them..
About social hierarchies: Again, dont care too much. Obviously they can be awful and unjust, but I also accept parents over children, doctors over patients, officers over soldiers, I mean we have all seen the losses in the Red Army after Stalin purged half of officer corps and all available tactics were whistle and charge… some hierarchies can be beneficial, so the whole thing is really neutral to me.
And now finally: something I do care about, something I think is important, valuable.
I dont think value comes out of labor. I think technology is what matters really much. I think that efficient problem solving ability is what is most important.
I think that technology dominates the economy (fortune 500 being mostly engineers). I think that our quality of life depends on technology the most. I think that our security depends on it too. So does our law and also our politics (think of all the recent hacking, spying, etc). Even our culture, I know more people with a cellphone than those visiting museums and ballet.
And technology matters so much because fundamentally, might really is right but this doesnt have to be extremely awful as long as the mighty are balanced, and technology is a huge chunk of it. And everyone can strive towards it (and should in my opinion), and we can do it together too.
I mean, Conan summed it up in that one quote from the movie Conan (what is best in life).
Think about it: only real crime is not killing, or stealing, only characteristic of all criminals is getting caught. People listen to politicians not because of some.. social skills or charisma, but because they have missiles. Military-Industrial complex dictates public policy for obvious reasons. And small number of corporations can pass majority of laws again for this same reason.
So anyway how do I label this? And thanks for reading!