Ben was teaching me about various theories like Communism a few nights ago (I'm really bad at understading things like that).
We got to talking about an Eden type world, where everything is nice and as God wants it. I'd always assumed that when discussing world views and how things should be, Christians would always start from an Eden type view and then project that onto the real world as how things should be.
It was a bit of a revelationt o me that this doesn't work, and now I think about it it seems so obvious why. Ben was saying how Communism is a brilliant theory on papaer, but (as Timothy Reeves commented somewhere recently), Marx didn't take human nature into account.
So it seems the perfect theory to project onto the world is one that takes human nature into account, which must be tricky because surely that's a very unpredictable element?
That's the beginning of my interest in politics and stuff.
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(Communism isn't a theory, it's a manifestation of theories like Maoism, Marxism or Awesomeism)
ben
Interesting stuff!
Incidentally, Marx did take human nature into account -- however he believed that human nature is essentially good and is only corrupted by society.
but Marx didn't explore human nature any further than Rosseau (Sp?), and usually accepted it as a default unless I'm mistaken.
Ben
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