"Time sheds its qualitative, variable, flowing nature; it freezes into an exactly delimited, quantifiable continuum filled with quantifiable things... in short, it becomes space" - Lukács
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Replying to @EBBerger
How is this not just Bergson on even more mushrooms? ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
cuz it's ripped from the metaphysical realm and describes the inner structure of capitalist civilization... but Bergson on a bunch of mushrooms is grand too!
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Replying to @EBBerger
So the key to understanding the inner structure of capitalist civilization is romantic vitalism on 'shrooms?
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger
... "Time was all flowing and sheeeeit -- but then capitalism happened."
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger
He's not wholly off base though, think of Dreamtime, or "island time," or the Amazon tribe with no sense of the abstract, including time People who quantify time get things done
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I suspect the evolutionarily novel future time preference that emerged among ice people is, at bottom, the factor largely responsible for runaway snowballing capitalism and its discontents.
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Replying to @demontage2000 @17cShyteposter and
Capitalism is not a necessary outcome of high time preference though. Agriculture is (or vice versa), but commerce is a derivative of these, a thing made possible by them. Time preference divides middle class from lower class, but wealth is not distributed to the most patient.
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Replying to @kapetanenas @demontage2000 and
Right, it's distributed to those who understand time and also have the will to attack it Combo of smarts and vitalism
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Replying to @17cShyteposter @demontage2000 and
Those determine the top of any hierarchy. Industrial capitalism in particular uses those traits to its own ends, and escapes judgement from smart and vital people because its palaces are filled with this type. But capitalism is just another liberal institution.
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Isn't it the only liberal institution?
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