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Some believe that no matter how content you are, if your neighbor builds a house larger than yours, you will be transformed into an "inmate", doomed to be forever "more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped".
Karl Marx quote:
"A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal or even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls."
Karl Marx is considered by many to be the father of Social Conflict Theory.
"From a social conflict theorist/marxism point of view social class and inequality emerges because the social structure is based on conflict and contradictions. Contradictions in interests and conflict over scarce resources between groups is the foundation of social society, according to the social conflict theory (Engels & Marx, 1848). The higher class will try to maintain their privileges, power, status and social position - and therefore try to influence politics, education, and other institutions to protect and limit access to their forms of capital and resources."
Notice the obsession with "privileges, power, status and social position" among the far left. Notice also that their main focus is on influencing "politics, education, and other institutions" (particularly the media). There seems to be a lack of focus on constructive behavior.
Every time I hear a leftist clamoring for communism or socialism or "democratic socialism" while living in the greatest country in the history of the world, which was built on free market enterprise, I am often reminded of John Milton's poem Paradise Lost. Here is a passage:
That we must change for Heaven, this mournful gloom
For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid
What shall be right: farthest from him is best
Whom reason hath equaled, force hath made supreme
Above his equals. Farewell happy Fields
Where Joy forever dwells: Hail horrors, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be changed by Place or Time.
For the mind is a place of its own, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell or a Hell of Heaven.
What matter where, if we be still the same,
And what shall we be, all but less then he
Whom hath been made greater by
The power of Thunder? Here at least
We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition even in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then to serve in Heaven.
Karl Marx quote:
"A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal or even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls."
Karl Marx is considered by many to be the father of Social Conflict Theory.
"From a social conflict theorist/marxism point of view social class and inequality emerges because the social structure is based on conflict and contradictions. Contradictions in interests and conflict over scarce resources between groups is the foundation of social society, according to the social conflict theory (Engels & Marx, 1848). The higher class will try to maintain their privileges, power, status and social position - and therefore try to influence politics, education, and other institutions to protect and limit access to their forms of capital and resources."
Notice the obsession with "privileges, power, status and social position" among the far left. Notice also that their main focus is on influencing "politics, education, and other institutions" (particularly the media). There seems to be a lack of focus on constructive behavior.
Every time I hear a leftist clamoring for communism or socialism or "democratic socialism" while living in the greatest country in the history of the world, which was built on free market enterprise, I am often reminded of John Milton's poem Paradise Lost. Here is a passage:
That we must change for Heaven, this mournful gloom
For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid
What shall be right: farthest from him is best
Whom reason hath equaled, force hath made supreme
Above his equals. Farewell happy Fields
Where Joy forever dwells: Hail horrors, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be changed by Place or Time.
For the mind is a place of its own, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell or a Hell of Heaven.
What matter where, if we be still the same,
And what shall we be, all but less then he
Whom hath been made greater by
The power of Thunder? Here at least
We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition even in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then to serve in Heaven.
