| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Anarchist Patriot,)
I see it all as the asian view of poverty is that it is a virtue. We westerners have forgotten the virtues of being poor. We want to have the best of everything. The best job, the coolest toys, the fastest car the biggest house etc. But what will it profit you when you die?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
The virtue of being poor?? I honestly can't see any virtue in it.
Now, I can understand how people can be poor who are born into poverty in third-world nations, but it's a completly different cultural dynamic. When you speak of the buddhist village where everyone works for the community, I can see virtue in teamwork and working towards the better whole, and of living simply in service, but that's not our culture in America, even though there may be some merit to it. If you're poor in america it's likely induced through bad choices.
For instance; the homeless in America are largly mentally ill, on drugs, petty criminals, drunks, ect. None of these behaviors are virtuous, but they're poor all right, because they don't want to do what it takes to be self-reliant. |