Fairness Is Our Life’s Mode; It Determines All Our Interactions - It’s Our Security
By Lionel Anet
25 June, 2015
Countercurrents.org
Fairness is the necessary quality needed to be social. Regrettably there’s now little of it globally, it has decreased, replaced by greed, which is sucking the life out of our planet. All civilised societies are intrinsically unfair and as such, the concept of fairness is not viable, therefore it isn’t assessable. We, then may talk about fairness, but can only deliberate about equality and justice, which are assessable in all civilisations. The elution of equality to be plausible in the present competitive socio-economy is dependent on economic growth, its capitalism fatal flaw. It’s Life’s fatality, a growth that can only be sustained with unsustainable fossil fuel that’s also changing the chemical composition of the biosphere. That change took only two century, but for nature to revert back to a benign state will take millennium, or never if we don’t act soon.
Fairness is the way social individuals share all aspect of nature, it incorporates honesty and cooperativeness. Honesty is how accurate one conveys what individuals and society needed to know to maximise the wellbeing for one and all. While cooperativeness is the art of social intimacy, it’s how well individuals function together. The aim of any social animal including people is to ensure all of the above are maximised. Furthermore that aim is the way social life functions at their best to produce most joy and least trauma.
The dependence on obscure convoluted economic relations in global capitalism is also diverting our focus from life’s future needs. The future will be a hotter world, with sea levels meters higher and needing to feed a few billion more people. That’s the height of unfairness, to take advantage of the young and the unborn to satisfy the greed of the few wealth ones. If that wasn’t hideous enough, nations are continuing civilisation’s compulsion for wars; it’s an industry, which also needs to tests its technology in battle. It’s what nations and corporations do to maintain dominance. However, in a globalised world with no new resources of required scale, those military activities can’t return the profit from the thievery that it once did. Nonetheless, the very wealthy are doing OK, as long as more people can be squeeze.
The responsibility for the repeating carnage in civilisation is laid at our nature, making the behaviour inevitable and ongoing. The civilised system, which was ruled, hierarchically, chosen by inheritance is now base on competition for wealth and power; it’s its essence, which dominates politics as well. As civilisation is looked on as sacred, above people, we therefore are seen as the problem. Nonetheless, it’s the system that nurtures us and encourages us to be greedy, domineering, and violent. History shows us that violence is the final arbiter, while the first is its fear. Yet we are instructed to think of democracy as the best possible system. We are ruled by people whose social needs are essentially to engross themselves of society’s wealth or working for those people. Fairness precludes competition - the hallmark of democracies – we keep on competing and die out or we live fairly and enjoy ourselves as part of nature.
Lionel Anet is a member of Sydney U3A University of the Third Age, of 20 years standing and now a life member
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