I dream about a world where all these unwritten rules can remain just that: unwritten. But since we're a long way removed from communism, that's just unrealistic and will never happen in my lifetime.
I agree fully. And I have the same realism here. Though I would take a different term, but when I make my own definition of "communism" it means only to be embedded in a community I can grasp locally and physically, so I can feel I have an influence and can be seen and heard, so I can see and hear the rest of the community.
How I perceive life is, that I don't think that all what we call a crisis, is a crisis indeed. We may betray ourselves for reasons of fear and the taboo of death. One may sound benevolent and caring to worry about health and the climate but I don't see it confirmed overall. If you care for one thing, even burn for it and put all your efforts and genius in it, you very well can fall ignorant for the needs of humans who oppose the glorification of science and modern art of life.
Once I read a newspaper article, over a hundred years old, I found the exact same worries about climate. It could have been a text from the present time. The author mentioned the melted seas in the very northern part of the earth. And indeed, you could go back in time and watch the people being in agony and fear all the times. If worry becomes the most important thing, people forget to live and feel joy. If I must stay in the state of sorrow and I can't help myself to come out of it, I may realize thirty years later that death still didn't catch me and for all what I've suffered, it was worthless, for I am still alive - I could have spent my life more relaxed. People went and are crazy with aids, cancer and all what modern medicine is not tired to come up with. Instead of decreasing illnesses the Pschyrembel gets fuller and fuller and we add fears on top of each other.
Though I fully agree that people in general are not evil, they tend to overestimate the evilness of others. And so, a destructive circle of distrust and hatred begins to spin. Terrorism is a rare act and does not happen on a regular basis. It's shocking, thats true. But to make a world terror-free, sickness-free, free of the unpredictable you will inevidably become a terrorist yourself. You cause what you claim to pacify. ("you" in the common sense).
Better not speak and scream about it, is what I think oftentimes. Neither a collective plays a role for me, nor if or if I have not free will. I use my will every day and I decide on things undecidable anyways.