What I think you've really explained is the human condition over a period of time and the structured distraction of humanities attention....our undivided attention is the only authority we have over ourselves and the direction of our future, if you become addicted to a directed attention away from life away from even yourself you have given your human authority away. If a child would rather shit his pants than losing beating the next level of a video game, not sleep,or not eat, has lost all attention to their personal and social necessities, this is now a mentivide a rape of the mind. This is how today the human brain is being hacked and it's necessities replaced by fear, and chaos through blinding distraction. Enmasse society's gaze has been diverted from the criminality and unaccountability of the technofuedal Oligarchs they have western society distracted dancing in our chains for the allegory of the cave.....
I think the renaming of Libertarians to "Propertarians" is a beautiful and eloquent way of separating to corporatist ideals of Libertarians from Leftist liberation-focused ideologies like Democratic Socialism, Anarchism, Libertarian Socialism, etc.
We are part of a community. Sometimes we contribute, sometimes we take, sometimes we hover on the edges. There are no borders there to hold us or the community apart.
Outstanding piece, real food for thought! It actually might be my favourite essay of yours to date (and that's a nearly impossible choice to make).
Any conversation surrounding freedom and personal responsibility quickly descends into ideas such as "owning yourself" and "being your own master." I think it's worth connecting it to the concept of REST as something that isn't inherent, but something we must be worthy of through earning it by our wage labour. This is the premise of the whole "wellness industry" that gives people the comfort of a vacuous veneer of "freedom" through "self-care" as defined by capitalism, erasing any notion of mutual care and healthy interdependency.
The fact we so readily default to using the language of commodification and so readily burst into laughter when someone presents a vision where property, ownership, money and hierarchy don't exist, shows just how deeply the claws of capitalism go... It's the most pervasive ideology ever inflicted on humankind, to the point most people genuinely believe an alternative can't possibly exist and genuinely don't see their inherent worth as a living, breathing being, only worth as defined by capitalist production. This line of thinking eroded millions of years of human (pre) history characterised by cooperative, communal ways of being.
What I think you've really explained is the human condition over a period of time and the structured distraction of humanities attention....our undivided attention is the only authority we have over ourselves and the direction of our future, if you become addicted to a directed attention away from life away from even yourself you have given your human authority away. If a child would rather shit his pants than losing beating the next level of a video game, not sleep,or not eat, has lost all attention to their personal and social necessities, this is now a mentivide a rape of the mind. This is how today the human brain is being hacked and it's necessities replaced by fear, and chaos through blinding distraction. Enmasse society's gaze has been diverted from the criminality and unaccountability of the technofuedal Oligarchs they have western society distracted dancing in our chains for the allegory of the cave.....
I think the renaming of Libertarians to "Propertarians" is a beautiful and eloquent way of separating to corporatist ideals of Libertarians from Leftist liberation-focused ideologies like Democratic Socialism, Anarchism, Libertarian Socialism, etc.
Well done, comrade
We are part of a community. Sometimes we contribute, sometimes we take, sometimes we hover on the edges. There are no borders there to hold us or the community apart.
Outstanding piece, real food for thought! It actually might be my favourite essay of yours to date (and that's a nearly impossible choice to make).
Any conversation surrounding freedom and personal responsibility quickly descends into ideas such as "owning yourself" and "being your own master." I think it's worth connecting it to the concept of REST as something that isn't inherent, but something we must be worthy of through earning it by our wage labour. This is the premise of the whole "wellness industry" that gives people the comfort of a vacuous veneer of "freedom" through "self-care" as defined by capitalism, erasing any notion of mutual care and healthy interdependency.
The fact we so readily default to using the language of commodification and so readily burst into laughter when someone presents a vision where property, ownership, money and hierarchy don't exist, shows just how deeply the claws of capitalism go... It's the most pervasive ideology ever inflicted on humankind, to the point most people genuinely believe an alternative can't possibly exist and genuinely don't see their inherent worth as a living, breathing being, only worth as defined by capitalist production. This line of thinking eroded millions of years of human (pre) history characterised by cooperative, communal ways of being.
Very good essay!