GNED 1202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Takers
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Capitalist production- environment: the mode of production vs the environment. Man"s conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. In karl marx"s view, the dynamic of capital would eventually impoverish the working class and thereby create the social conditions for a revolution. The universal flaw of humanity is a mere thread of the story we"re enacting. Even with all our knowledge we lack the basic knowledge of how we ought to live. Taker mythology: mythology provides us with a self fulfilling prophecy. Man was meant to conquer the world, and turn it into a paradise, but man is flawed with greed and corruption and avarice and petty competitiveness which push the natural limits. Self-fulfillment is actually self-defeatism, written into our very culture. We are flawed so there is no use trying: peace-keeping law, and the law of limited competition in nature. But there are laws: -found in the community of life, -like any other law, -but we are exempt.