Michael Brownstein <michaelbrownstein777@gmail.com> wrote:
As usual from you, this is brilliantly written and thought provoking. It also, in my estimation, skips over or ignores the obvious, “real” explanation for our self-destructive, cruel, drastically unfair and unhinged system — namely, predatory capitalism
As usual from you, this is brilliantly written and thought provoking. It also, in my estimation, skips over or ignores the obvious, “real” explanation for our self-destructive, cruel, drastically unfair and unhinged system — namely, predatory capitalism
Capitalism, though its modern, most virulent form originated with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, goes back thousands of years. It is patriarchal in nature. One does not need an occult conspiracy of any kind, however emotionally attractive that might be, to account for its effects. For example, when all kinds of white supremacist hogwash is cleared away, the basis for the slave trade — for seeing other people as sub-human — was the profit motive.
As I’ve said to you before, I believe that yes the very nature of capitalism will definitely allow for like-minded winners to form alliances and dominate, but it will not allow for a conspiracy of the sort all kinds of people from one end of the “mental” spectrum to the other seem to need
Why no grand, planet-wide conspiracy? Because by nature capitalists are sunk in winner take all competition, in unrelieved aggressive fixation. They don’t trust one another. They do not have each other’s back
In fact, what’s missing from them and also from the rest of us is true community. Community as it existed for hundreds of thousands of years in various tribal iterations before the takeover of the profit motive regardless of the consequences. For which we are now paying the price, no matter what theories we spin out in books
(And by the way, I just emailed you a Vice article on the latest Q turn toward the “sovereign nation” movement. They’re not going anywhere. However gullible we are when we fall in love, much more so are we when we fall in hate
Ultimately, I would say humanity took a wrong turn a long time ago into a whirlpool of deranged ego supremacy and greed and is, when all its current manifestations are weighed together, certifiably insane)
Michael Brownstein <michaelbrownstein777@gmail.com> wrote:
As usual from you, this is brilliantly written and thought provoking. It also, in my estimation, skips over or ignores the obvious, “real” explanation for our self-destructive, cruel, drastically unfair and unhinged system — namely, predatory capitalism
Capitalism, though its modern, most virulent form originated with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, goes back thousands of years. It is patriarchal in nature. One does not need an occult conspiracy of any kind, however emotionally attractive that might be, to account for its effects. For example, when all kinds of white supremacist hogwash is cleared away, the basis for the slave trade — for seeing other people as sub-human — was the profit motive.
As I’ve said to you before, I believe that yes the very nature of capitalism will definitely allow for like-minded winners to form alliances and dominate, but it will not allow for a conspiracy of the sort all kinds of people from one end of the “mental” spectrum to the other seem to need
Why no grand, planet-wide conspiracy? Because by nature capitalists are sunk in winner take all competition, in unrelieved aggressive fixation. They don’t trust one another. They do not have each other’s back
In fact, what’s missing from them and also from the rest of us is true community. Community as it existed for hundreds of thousands of years in various tribal iterations before the takeover of the profit motive regardless of the consequences. For which we are now paying the price, no matter what theories we spin out in books
(And by the way, I just emailed you a Vice article on the latest Q turn toward the “sovereign nation” movement. They’re not going anywhere. However gullible we are when we fall in love, much more so are we when we fall in hate
Ultimately, I would say humanity took a wrong turn a long time ago into a whirlpool of deranged ego supremacy and greed and is, when all its current manifestations are weighed together, certifiably insane)
Michael