It is missing my point to say, “People have always been like this” when I am pointing out that the psychological structure is different now from what it was before. I mean it would be nice if I could see my point was first understood for what it is, before being disagreed with and denied, othewise it would seem like I am simply unobservant or idealistic, making things up as I go along.
By the way, my point has nothing to do with ideologicallly criticising capitalism. I’m suggesting that it is necessary and possible to stand outside of a competitive viewpoint that would tend to posit that any and all positions are primarly or innately competitive and self-interested. If this isn’t done, then it will seem only as if I am making an ideological statement, which would have to be assumed to be self-serving, as all ideological statements are. But I’m very much NOT AT ALL interested in having a left versus right debate, especially in the terms fixed by current ideological denizens. My paradigms are intellectual and abstract, not ideological, and have to be addressed as historically engineered structures, not ideological propositions. That is, we need to take the sense of competition out of what I am putting accross in order to understand the structures in a purely scientific or intellectually disinterested way, not in a way that makes the world seem all too narrow by viewing reality solely in terms of competing ideological propositions.

In short: I am not interested, either now or in the future, in competing with you.

To make it clear: I am saying that if people understand human nature as intrinsically evil because prone toward "fascism" then they are constantly at odds with themselves -- not relaxed and happy people who know themselves very well. Since the modern position is to "do better than the past" and get beyond "fascism", people are not really at ease with their human nature. I do not trust such people because their attitude toward themselves already indicates that they are not to be trusted.

his is a continuation of my thesis. Modern people (being those who are keen to forget history for fear their natures would make them fascists) lack a sense of ease with themselves, because they think their inner natures are fascistic. They are therefore untrustworthy, just as they do not trust themselves as their own natures sit uneasily with them. Therefore they are uncomfortable people to be around, and tend to repulse friendship. Since, on some level they must feel this to be so, they project their chance of redemption into the future, where presumably exists a Utopia where everyone gets along. In the meantime they insist that those who come across them must necessarily "persist": or "endure" or await the golden moment in the future when they become all that they ought to be. Unfortunately, it is a narcissistic tangle.