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Communism Didn't Work Because People Weren't Ready For It, It Was Corrupt, And Because It Squelched Individualism.

We're A Young Species; We're Only 175,000 Years Old. On The Evolutionary Scale, Life On This Planet Is 4 Billion Years Old. We're 175,000 Years Old. So We're Trying Something Out. Who Wouldn't Think It Would Be Better To Have The Most Stuff To Take As Much As You Could? As We Do That, We See Why The Moral Prophets Come Along And Say, Don't Even Store Into Barns, Right? It's Easier For A Camel To Pass Through The Eye Of The Needle Than A Rich Man To Enter The Kingdom Of Heaven. We've Seen We Plunder Nature. We Plunder Our Neighbor. We Create Enemies Because We're Against Each Other.

Look At Native Cultures - They've Lasted For Tens Of Thousands Of Years, Not Doing Everything Right. We Wouldn't Want To Emulate Them In Many Ways, But Their Basic Philosophies - Being A Part Of Nature, A Part Of A Tribe Or Group Without Elevating, Not What You Call Dominator Philosophies - They Lasted For Tens Of Thousands Of Years. It Took Us To Come And Put Them Asunder.

I Love Frank Capra. He Believed In The Goodness Of People And One Man's Ability To Fight And Often Triumph.

The Word Contentment Comes From The Word Content, Which Is What We Hold Inside - Love, Value, A Feeling Of A Life That Has Meaning Or Purpose, A Cause Greater Than Yourself That You're A Part Of. These Are The Things That Bring True Happiness. As A Culture, I Think We Need To Redefine What It Means To Be Happy.