If there is one mantra I am zeroing in , it is this : "Reduce the Suffering"

[UndertheOcean]

Forget about choice or life . Forget about your Ideology. Marxism , Capitalism , Anarchism forget all the isms.

don't base your decisions in life around cold analytic ideologies , which can only approximate the human condition . And life is way more complex to be reduced to a set of theories.

Just take every thing on a case by case basis , doing whatever reduces the suffering.

That is the best you can do to make a dent in the course of human history.

The greatest people in the world , are ones that history will never remember ... The volunteers in homeless shelters , Docotors living in third world countries offering all they can to help and turning their backs on luxury and greed. Church abbots protecting undocumented immigrants . Millions of acts of kindness that go on around us everyday.

I went from Islamist , to Atheist , to Agnostic Marxist , to Anarchist , and now I just abhor all ideology ... I believe it is a kind of secular religion and one of the blights brought upon the suffering.


Read and learn for sure, read Lenin's or Strauss's tomes ... but don't make a religion out of it.


Just reduce the suffering , please , in any little or big way you can.

[MindPilot]

1. K&R -- I have nothing to add.

[azul]

2. Good thing for us all that someone found the cause of suffering,

and showed us that there is a way out.

Strife

[UndertheOcean]

3. You mean Buddha ?

[flvegan]

4. One of the reasons I'm vegan.

And it's something that anyone can do whenever they may choose to.

[UndertheOcean]

5. Man , Vegetarianism , I am doing that easily ....

Maybe feeling sick and tired when I stop drinking milk or eating eggs is all in my head.

I envy you.