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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Dialectics [1]

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Date: 2025-05-04

Here is a shallow dive into a deep subject for more clarity and confusion. Enjoy.

dialectic noun … 4 philosophy a: the Hegelian process of change in which a concept or its realization passes over into and is preserved and fulfilled by its opposite also : the critical investigation of this process b Marxism (1) usually dialectics plural in form but singular or plural in construction : development through the stages of thesis (see development through the stages of thesis (see thesis sense 4 ), antithesis , and synthesis (see synthesis sense 2b ) in accordance with the laws of dialectical materialism (2) : the investigation of this process (3): the theoretical application of this process especially in the social sciences ... Where do we start? Specifically, individual units can get together to create synergetic arrangements, which according to my reading of Merriam Webster is meaningless. Creations come outta nowhere from universal potentials. God is or isn’t. We have religion. Fundamental forces acting in universal fields attract and repel those of varying attributes, one way or another. We live between chaos and order, plasma and solid, work and rest. That’s life. Build to last with waste and decay ever present. Gain and loss are assured. Outcomes are not. YMMV We consume to live. We join with others to survive as communities. Things change. Conditions vary. The best can be the worst, depending on circumstances.

As for me, my life is full of confounding circumstances.

So, what do you do?

How shall I respond?

I am a successful real estate investor doing well enough to post online and go for occasional bicycle rides.

I am a failure and fraud who devoted 30 years to science for few career rewards and numerous trials. I knew biology as well as I can know anything, but it wasn’t good enough. How can I succeed at anything after that.

I have many family and friends, though we rarely talk and I often feel isolated.

Maybe it’s just me.

We are individuals with our own experiences, thoughts and feelings.

Thoughts and state of mind affect outcomes, but may not be determinative, despite repeated insistence on the power of positive thinking across political and theological spectra.

Maybe it’s not just me.

We live together on this our only home planet. How can I be satisfied when we have plenty, yet consume Earth’s resources faster than they can be replenished? How can I be happy when people treat each other and other species so viciously?

We divide among countries knowing that we need to work together. Government can be good working for people, but gets slandered and diverted to empowering a few. They all tell us how good they are, yet those empowered too often use their power for their own ends. To make government work, we have to get involved and possibly be inconvenienced. Government is for people, not figureheads.

Employers know we want to work for good and promote their good works. Lawyers and brand managers toe the line. Brand image overtakes real impacts. Few speak of how innovation comes with waste. Without failures and loss, there is no innovation.

Companies sell freedom, independence, convenience and touching relations for us to buy more aggravating dependence and congestion. They sell the good uses of their products and services. We buy all of the waste and competition in hopes of good feelings that may or may not come.

At present, we live in nature with technology. Dialectics of our existences will be resolved. There are creative community solutions available, if we can get past our individualistic, leader driven, energy wasting tendencies

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