A dose of meta-philosophy

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"If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man’s illusion that he was acting according to his own free will."

- Albert Einstein

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There are countless discussion forums and communities on the world wide web today discussing Capitalism vs Socialism.
More often than not, people end up discussing conflicts in ideologies among civilizations (can read East vs West), instead of an absolutistic approach regardless of contemporary contexts (makes me assume, it is this conflict of thoughts that brings most people to these forums, and not exchange of knowledge).

Nature formulated (mainly controlled and driven by instincts) the law of 'Survival of fittest' in evolution of organisms towards better life on this planet. Capitalism builds on this philosophy of being the fittest. Though I havent come across anything that explains the 'Why/How' behind these instincts gifted by nature, it is also some of these instincts which make most successful organisms social beings.

Human, whom we may want to consider the most successful, has built civilizations (from living in jungles to highly evolved societies, living together for one another - socialists arent we??) driven by these instincts. Do we see conflicts among these instincts gifted to us?

There is diversity around the world. This universe is never in perfect equilibrium afterall. There are difference in opinions, mainly arising from the struggle for resources. Shifts of ideologies and opinions are parts of regular shifts across the equilibrium (which I sometimes feel is cyclical, some short cycles, some very long). But in all, is there any point debating which face of a coin is more important in a spinning toss?

However, if you have to even consider what I have said above, then I need to admit, I may change my mind sometime in the future :)