Love, Liza

      IDEALISM AND REALISM How do you create a tolerant community if the other guy believes in intolerance? How do you achieve a cooperative relationship if the other guy doesn’t want to cooperate? These questions will always arise, as long as human nature is what it is. There will always be someone with a thirst to build an empire and rule the world. Is it naïve to wish for world peace, like those earnest Miss America contestants do every year? What would indeed be naïve would be to ignore human nature, or to pretend that it’s something it’s not. Any plan for a peaceful future must be - and can be – both idealistic in its vision and realistic in its portrayal of human nature. Theories of universal cooperation, “peace and love,” have been sneered at for their block-headed insistence that given the “right” environment people will not want to compete to rise to the top of the pack. Communism is despised both for its theory and its practice, and for good reason:...