As I stepped into the shower getting ready for work today, in my daily routine of pondering about the meaning of life and the origin of universe, I came across this conclusion about this common oxymoronic statement that people often make. “that was such a bad decision”
Here are the reasons:
If we take Hobbe’s theory (was it Hobbes, I forgot in all those stupid political philosophy books back in college) that human being is innately evil and selfish, and add that to Social Darwinism theories of competitiveness, we should come to the following conclusions:
1) There are no bad decisions in life. It is impossible in our cognitive human nature (self serving) to make any “bad choices”, every decision we make is a progression from the previous. The goal in all of us, simply put it, is to maximize our perceived value at the moment.
2) Of course, inevitably our “perceived value” would need modification from time to time called compromise. ‘Compromise’ does not mean it is bad choice. It merely means it is a tradeoff from the ‘bestest’ decision to the 2nd best decision.
With these two conclusion. Utopia (in biblical term, ‘Eden’) should be all around us. They answer ties back to Hobbes and Social Darwinism. If everyone is happy and content, then how can one know that their decision is better then others. So by human nature, the easiest way is the suppress others from maximum gain.
Hence you have today’s capitalism society…
Marx tried to break this tie, but Communism failed, simply because of this reason.
Tie this to some of the more practical things we see today. One of the AP headlines today stated that tension between China and the US is rising over currency exchanges and textile industry. I think the competitiveness by these two countries, one to ‘maximize’ returns, one to prevent the other from reaching full potential is gradually surfacing. Ultimately, it will be a lose-lose situation in the long run if my logics above is correct. In the short term basis, US is still dominant, but this “tradeoff” to prevent growth of China, if passed, will raise tension between the two. By China curbing the fixed currency to a market currency rate, Chinese goods will be more expensive, thus hurting US consumers…..
More on this later.
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