It’s a shit lesson but a true lesson- capitalism or not. In most of human society, perhaps even more so the further from development you get, as is the case in nature on the whole; practicality doesn’t care about unique, it cares about useful.
When someone starts spewing black goo from every hole they could represent the next stage of human evolution and be transforming into a higher being that can grant wishes with a thought… or they could be turning into a demon or carrying a horrifying disease. Nature tends to dislike different because what is usually exists for a reason, with hundreds of millions of years of trial and error and survival tied up in those reasons. You eat food you know unless you don’t have a choice. “Alone in the woods” is not generally the time to start trying new foods for the sake of novelty.
As a species we advance when out of desperation or necessity or curiosity someone tries something new and discovers an innovative way- but…..
If you look at all the people who have looked at “established order” and thought they had a “better way,” the success stories stand out because they are exceptions in a sea of bad ideas or poor conceptions that failed to do appreciably better than what was known, acceptably safe, and established.
The lesson of Rudolph is that sometimes different is better, or useful. Of course we don’t have to ostracize and alienate or reject people or things for being different. It’s also the case we don’t live “alone in the woods.” Most of us live in developed societies where we have ways to try new things without it being likely to kill us or we can take risks on the unknown because there are safety systems and other means to help protect us and mitigate danger. Even in communism there are “red nosed reindeer” who would be shunned if not for being useful. So I mean- it isn’t capitalist it is just brutal instinct being expressed without higher reasoning.
When someone starts spewing black goo from every hole they could represent the next stage of human evolution and be transforming into a higher being that can grant wishes with a thought… or they could be turning into a demon or carrying a horrifying disease. Nature tends to dislike different because what is usually exists for a reason, with hundreds of millions of years of trial and error and survival tied up in those reasons. You eat food you know unless you don’t have a choice. “Alone in the woods” is not generally the time to start trying new foods for the sake of novelty.
As a species we advance when out of desperation or necessity or curiosity someone tries something new and discovers an innovative way- but…..
The lesson of Rudolph is that sometimes different is better, or useful. Of course we don’t have to ostracize and alienate or reject people or things for being different. It’s also the case we don’t live “alone in the woods.” Most of us live in developed societies where we have ways to try new things without it being likely to kill us or we can take risks on the unknown because there are safety systems and other means to help protect us and mitigate danger. Even in communism there are “red nosed reindeer” who would be shunned if not for being useful. So I mean- it isn’t capitalist it is just brutal instinct being expressed without higher reasoning.