Thursday, April 20, 2006

Strong Reciprocity Is Inevitable In A Successful Ideology

All successful ideologies or isms or religions must incorporate the most powerful of human emotions otherwise they will of necessity wither from disinterest.Of course strong reciprocity or the feeling of fairness inherent in people or monkeys even to the point of starvation will be critical or even the guiding principle in a successful ideology.This tendency toward fairness can manifest itself towards equality to a pathological degree.This is socialism or envy rationalised where the center responsible for fairness in the brain submerges all else.Marx of course was afflicted with this pathology so much so that it consumed almost his entire waking life.Likewise religions one and all preach some form of fairness and wealth redistribution but hardly ever production and the circumstances needed to stimulate and grow that production.It is so much easier to take than create.An ideology without or contradicting strong reciprocity must of necessity fail or at least has not succeeded yet.