Until the Chicago School wanted to lend more credibility to the discipline, economics was a branch of philosophy. A professor of economics was a professor of economic theory in the Department of Philosophy.
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Yes. It doesn’t serve Capital for the elderly to spread the message that the meaning of life is not to gather and hoard property. They would most likely agree that the most valuable rights are natural rights: freedom of thought, expression, speech, movement, freedom from persecution, etc.
Perhaps there is an inverse relationship between the amount of value that a society places on the wisdom of the elderly, and the equality advocated for by their economic system.
We don’t value the elderly, because the market does not want to hear their message.
FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
What it says:
“Backed by the full faith and and credit of the United States Government”
What it means:
“Faith is belief without facts, but we promise to pay you back using the debt we push on others”
Advocacy for decentralized systems and uniform opportunity for mankind is inconsistent with the myth of American exceptionalism. One must cast off identification with a nation state, and commit to being a citizen of the world.
There is no left-right conflict inherent in the system.
There is only top-bottom conflict, and a dialogue controlled by the top with a purpose of fomenting resentment between the suffering masses below.
“Any large scale human cooperation - whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe - is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination.”
- Yuval Noah Harari
On the social and environmental externalities of neoliberal economics and its supporting ecosystem
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All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual’s own.
— Herbert Marcuse
Exactly. There was once a dream of government, imagined by our founding fathers, and by every group of men that hoped for a unified community for their progeny. And it was taken over by private interests and turned into a tool for the rentier class to extract value from the others.
The only thing that separates any two species is the time between them and their common ancestor. We are all genetic brothers with a common ancestor 3.9 billion years ago. Symbiogenesis and Divergent evolution and speciation make life on earth successful and interesting. Man is a temporary note in the symphony of life.
Our reticence to recognize a cooperative position in the life world will be our undoing.
Musk and every other billionaire exercise an immense amount of power over politics and finance, and I never voted for any of them.
I don’t know. She probably fell out of a tree onto her back. She was found alone and abandoned. She is a paraplegic now — back legs. I plan to take her to a home in Indiana that cares for lots of paraplegic creatures.
Democracy Incorporated
-Sheldon Wolen
This is about the Inverted Totalitarianism that plagues our politics and economy, and about how the rentier maintain an exploitative relationship with a largely unaware citizenry that service their wants.
The belief in human exceptionalism and God-ordained sovereignty over other species is a tragedy, and denies an understanding of evolution, speciation, and the Earth’s desire for the fruitfulness of life over time, in any form.
Self-serving beliefs that justify the exploitation of other people, classes, races, or species, all call upon the same logical fallacies that diminish any claim that mankind is at the apex of cognitive development.
It takes a thoughtful person and a person who reads continuously to discover this for themselves, and to overcome the successful marketing of corporations looking to push product upon them
I agree. But people will never believe this. This message they learn from teachers, church leaders, and mentors. But the opposing argument that consumption makes you happy is peddled by the entire market economy, social media, Hollywood, corporate sales campaigns, etc. Moral arguments are painted over with arguments that serve capital and profit.