Sunday, September 21, 2008

21092008, week 03

I was looking at the recent updates among some of my classmates, when I found an interesting post. It is called The Perfect Paper World of Volvo Driving Communists. This was written by Kevin McWilliams. It can be found here: http://runslikeakenyan.blogspot.com/2008/09/perfect-paper-world-of-volvo-driving.html

In this blog, Kevin talks about how much people complain about the world being unfair, and how communism is actually fair. He brings up a good point. Communism is fair in a way. If we did live in a communist world today, we would all have certain things: the same kind of house, same income, and same car. All of these things could be successful, functional, or might just be something that breaks every five minutes. Maybe that's why communism is so frowned upon by countries. "But had the government stepped in when you were picking cars and said 'You must drive this Volvo, no other cars are allowed in the country.' Everyone elses car would've broken down too. That's fair." We weren't sure whether our lifestyle would actually be nice, or if we would be struggling to survive like the proletariat class was at that moment. I also think that we are human, we all have a different way of viewing life and way they see themselves. Some think that they are much better than others, some think that they are all the same. So what would happen if someone with such a high authority of themselves be forced to take up the same occupation of a lowlife? Or have to drive the same car? They think they're better than that. That's where communism becomes a problem. 

Communism does make sense, for those who believe that the world should be fair. But, it becomes a problem when it comes to human being's beliefs.

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