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Anonymous Mon Jul 23 09:49:54 2018 No.11507409 [Reply] [Original]

How do we balance higher needs with realistic needs? That is maintain the balances of things such as beauty, community, intellect, spirituality with economic consumption, infrastructure, materialism, hedonism?

Marxists/communists seem to offer either sterile puritanism, decrying everything else as bourgeoisie, or unlimited individual freedom ending up with the same problems of capitalism. While capitalism rejects all higher needs and sees life as existing for nothing more then hedonism that should be exploited through utilitarian needs.

So, what is the solution?

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 10:09:23 2018 No.11507462

>>11507409
>relying on a totalizing economic/social system to fulfill your higher needs instead of self-actualizing and finding meaning in philosophy and/or spirituality

Stop equating consumption to self-actualization and you'll find capitalism is a decent mode of human existence, the best humanity has ever had in fact.

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