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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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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I think the problem, as many people see it, is a world structurally defined and catered to, the emotional state of restless people. This plays out in things like work as the primary daytime activity, and urban planning designed to prioritize business needs. 1/n
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People want to feel like their lives belong to them, and are responsive to their needs. The system you describe is what happens when the extremely restless are prioritized, and allowed to make their restlessness everyone else's problem. 2/
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Very interesting thoughts, I've been having ideas that "capitalism" is just the name we give to an emergent *evolutionary* form of human interaction:https://twitter.com/mr_james_c/status/1262745465843417092?s=20 …
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Best definition of capitalism I have heard of is simply a system characterized by market dependence: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Market_Dependence_Theory … I'm cure there are better cites for this.
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