JUST PHILOSOPHING ON : SOME OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM LIFE! PART 7.
Yes, I have learnt that, while I might not be a 'devil', neither am I a 'saint.' And what of my politics and my philosophical aspirations? Well, considering politics first, as a young man, I had started my political journey as what I could call an 'aspiring socialist' living in a capitalist society. It was the difference between the kind of society - socialism - I felt would better address what I could term the 'haves and havesnot' of the country I live in and the world in general. The bridging of the divide between inequalities of applied capitalism, and the 'promised bounty' of the promised but yet to be attained socialism. And now, what I have learnt is that 'idealism', to which political ideologies such as socialism has now been consigned to. Is the preserve of young people, and groups of old men and women who believe in it as one would in a religious faith, and who have continued to believe that it will be realised. Just as ho