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Quote by: HelioPrime  Yet would people from an eastern upbringing view that as a negative?
When raised in a non linear end result way of thinking the actions of the individual can seem of less importance that the whole group. A society can take on more worth than any single unit within it. |
I agree, and this was demonstrated quite clearly during the Japanese conquest of the Pacific.
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Communism only comes into conflict when it runs into those raised in the belief that the single individual is the greatest unit of existence.
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Again i agree; people in the western world are raised to come to their own conclusions, to think independently, and to believe their life is worth more than the good of the population (though to a micro- degree, but inevitable in a capitalistic society)
People already have judgments of values of certain careers over others:
"My job as a doctor is more difficult than the garbage man's, so why get the same rewards?"
One can make a perfect analogy to an ant colony. They all do what they have to, whether it be move dirt or tend the babies, when they need to do it. That is because they do not care what their neighbor is doing, they do their part and survive.
This type of isolationism will not work for social-needy humans, but to a degree it can be relevant. People think they know what jobs should be rewarded more than others, but when all people erase those set values, passed down from our fathers and theirs, communism may have a fighting chance.