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Originally Posted by harmonygirl I am not sure how death can be the opposite of change, as death IS change. Just because something is dead doesn't mean there is no impact. Marx is dead, yet still having an impact, as is Einstein. |
I didn't refer to that. What has Marx changed after his death? The life of millions of people in the USSR, China, Cuba... Also, it is considered a cause of May 1968 in France, and one of the main influences in most philosophers of the 20th century. He lead, with his particular bible-the Communist Manifesto-, to the main theoretical discussion about the social conditioning of people. To the death of millions of people. To terible misinterpretations of his work, both from communist and capitalist, as Lenin misinterpret it complete, but so did the 'defenders' of a capitalist world. He lead to a main fear in the life of people, who discussed whether the capitalism or communism woudl win. And many, many other things. But there is something I notice. None of these changes that were caused by Marx, were affected on Marx. That is, once Marx had died, he didn't have change in his lif,e he didn't divorce, or have children, he didn't buy a new car, he didn't move. He had ceased to exist as himself. He, Marx, was simply his books, the momories of him, and the photos of him. What I meant in my post was that death is the opposite of change becuase after death there is nothing that happens. Marx's death lead to change in the world. But what I was meaning wasn't about something affecting another thing, not even something of a smaler digree affecting something of a bigger one. What I meant was that things cease to affect themselves, nor do external things affect it. Marx died, and he didn't change his existence from then on, nor did I change his, nor did anyone. The same with Einstein. The same with the world, if it dies, if ceases to exist, then I won't be able to change it (which is my intention), nor could all of the world change anything of itself, nor could another civilisation change the world. End minds END, nothing more.