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AKODAENA: COMMUNITARIANISM An Akodaena is a 'Bad Moral Vision' i.e. a bad ideology or bad set of beliefs and values. The test of whether a Daena is good or bad is whether they lead a person to act in support of the Arta Thalica or Flourishing Order which brings Pantothalia - the general well-being. The best daena for one person may not be the same as the best daena for someone else with a different character or in a different life situation. COMMUNITARIANISM is an ideology that says that people's actions must be to the benefit of the community as a whole. On the face of it this sounds similar to Mazdaic Panthalism - the striving for the common flourishing - and seem like a good thing. However the problem is that: i) The 'Community' may be very large - the whole of the population of the state or the world. So it is impossible for an individual person to know all the members of the community and make their own judgement as to what is the best course of action to take. ii) Communitarianism doesn't advocate any good method of determining what are the best actions to take. Rather they are decided by the 'leaders' of the community - i.e. the most powerful persons acting on the community. iii) By stressing the good of the community (which a person cannot easily judge for themselves) over the good of the individual (which that individual might have an idea about) it undermines individual freedom and thus any effective check on tyranny. Communitarianism is an ideology promoted by Azicrats (tyrants) as it opens up an opportunity for them to dictate politically correct behaviour to people and take the moral high-ground while doing so. A priority for Azicrats is to prevent the development of an Aristocracy that might challenge their rule. Such an aristocracy would likely grow out of the mainstream majority of a population able to gain independence of living and thinking, develop good values and beliefs and team together effectively with others to develop their corporate strength. Azicratic Communitarianism will thus take on values that for instance empower minorities at the expense of the majority, that undermine the wealth or economic independence of the majority or which undermine their health, their education, their practical capabilities or their ability to associate together as they would naturally wish to. STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM Stakeholder capitalism is a form of Communitarianism for the business world. The 'Stakeholder Community' of a business corporation are all those people in any way affected by the corporation - which includes shareholders, staff, clients, customers and the general public. In conventional capitalist ideology a business corporation's agenda is to make a profit for their shareholders. However in stakeholder capitalism corporation leaders must also consider the impact of their business on all the stakeholders. In practice corporation leaders are not free to develop their own ideas about this but must take direction from the most powerful. These are likely to include the leaders of fund-holders who are invested in their business, activists who are able to generate negative campaigns against them and political powers that can determine the legal rules they must comply with. All of these actors may ultimately be controlled by the ruling Azicracy. |