The In-Between Point

There are many problems with capitalism and I used to think that capitalism was the bane of human existence. I have since come around to see ourselves in a position that closely resembles a half-way point between good and bad. It seems much worse that systems of the past because our ability to cause harm to ourselves is greater than it was before. There are many more negative aspects of our society than there were before, it seems reasonable to want to go back to a safer time when we valued different traditions. Capitalism, it seems, is responsible for motivating people to go to war and to create nuclear bombs and guns, and the nature of capitalism combined with industrialism has created an environmental mess which past society would have never considered. There are ways to improve ourselves and we ought to embrace that, we cannot stand idly by because we are aware that there are negatives in capitalism. This is not a place to rest, we have to move forward; we must strive for a better society. As with progress away from the previous stages of human history, we can certainly get rid of many of the problems that we have now. Diseases used to run rampant, and they no longer do. The streets used to stink, they no longer do. Transportation used to leave the majority of travellers dead, that is no longer the case. We can usually address most of our problems as we progress.