Human nurture

One thing I hear a lot of people say is "it's human nature." For example, socialism won't work because people will take advantage of the system, it's human nature. Wars are a constant in our life, it's human nature. Lying, stealing, corruption. Human nature.

I disagree. I think we should blame human nurture. By this I mean the way in which people are raised, in a very general sense. Everything around them, their parents, peers, media, literally everything from womb on out. We need to change culturally in order to reach this level where such things are seen as immature (or some other word...), rather than a natural part of life. I think we can do this... I have faith in it. Furthermore, our awareness of the impacts of human "nature" should only further our goal of reaching enlightenment as a species.... dang that sounds douchey. But I do think that should be our goal as a group. We can learn from the past, and take that into consideration in our actions.

Will we be perfect? Fuck no. But I think the pursuit of perfection is a good goal in itself.

I want to believe that this can happen. That by helping others, they can help themselves, and eventually, we will all help each other.

My crazy thought of the day is if everyone believed that it would work, then it would. It is simply the lack of faith in such a system that destroys it. Funny how that works. But then I wonder, is the one aspect of human nature, the one that can't be directed by human nurture, to doubt? Something like the Giver... placed in a perfect system, you start to question it, to rebel simply because. Maybe the question is, if all these things were gone from the world, would it be an interesting place to live in?

But that's going a little too far.

I could go on and on about this but I'll just stop here...