Kinda curious how “capitalism” as an ideal only exists in the heads of people opposed to it. The term points to a series of historic pseudo-equilibrium conditions that are unified only by being paths of least coordination resistance through their eras.
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The medium is the message. He keeps referring to his MIT uncle. His reason for preferring steam catapults for aircraft carriers over EM is an aesthetic preference for steam, the way kids like steam locomotives. Is it any wonder his revealed capitalism is ~1830s+1950s?
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Capitalism is more a behavioral disposition (restlessness for shipping) than a set of beliefs. The main way it is good or evil is generally being at or behind the technological frontier of maximal possibilities.
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Hmm just realized my account here is close in spirit to Zizek’s notion of cynicism as ideology. http://pujoldotcom.com/2011/11/21/slavoj-zizek-cynicism-as-a-form-of-ideology-concept-of-kynicism/ …
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Okay getting more convinced of this based on replies exchanges. Capitalism as an ideology is a category error. It’s like calling politics an ideology. Politics is a class of behaviors that may include ideologically prescribed and constrained ones but is much larger.
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There are times when politics gets confined to a set of possibilities, like “electrical democracy” but the thing itself is what Kevin Spacey does in House of Cards or what Cardinal Richelieu did in 1600s France. It’s a set of behaviors within a theater. They “shipped politics”
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That remaining 10% is pretty good at Twitter though.
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