Capitalist lies and propaganda.

We are not always aware of the degree we are bombarded with lies by the capitalist propaganda machine of the mass media and the education and political systems. They try to tell us we are all a bunch of greedy swine and so therefore capitalism is a natural, it is the system that comes out of "human nature."

Harvard university professor and director of the Cognitive Evolution Laboratory is one of the world's leading expertness on "fairness." He set standard tests for a quarter of a million people from one hundred and twenty countries. His conclusions? These tests show that humans everywhere are born with an innate disposition not to intend harm. It is a result common to Amazonian tribal people or pensioners in South Korea. This instinct broadens into the tendency to want to cooperate. Yes we are natural cooperators.

This is a capacity the species once needed for survival. If a stranger could not be trusted to keep to the group's rules when humans lived in caves as hunter gatherers, it was a matter of life and death. This tendency towards not wanting to harm others and to cooperate is very dangerous for the capitalist class and their system. It leads very easily into common strugle and solidarity. They cannot tolerate this. They must indoctrinate us into believing that it is natural to put others down, every person for themselves and the devil take the hindmost, and no cooperation, look after number one in the most short term and crude fashion, divide and rule.

Not wanting to do harm to others, wanting to cooperate, these are tendencies that lead to working together and to solidarity, they are tendencies that point us in the direction of democratic socialism. Democratic socialism is the system that is closest to our other natural instincts. Capitalism is a system that has to continually indoctrinate us and organize to divide us and make ius act against each other. And of course the greatest contradiction of all is that the more we "look after number one" the more we propel the world towards destruction and devastation and so we are not looking after number one at all. Enlightened self interest is to understand th powerful instinct we have to work together and to cooperate and to build a system on this, that is a world wide democratic socialist system.

Sean.