...the state we're in.. On 29/09/2021 16:22, Hari DK wrote:
-Also, as hinted in some of the comments by others - how is this future achieved? is it an organic emergent? or is it top down? capitalism in its original form is arguably an organic emergent of human settlement (farming societies stored seeds for the next harvest. of course I am not talking about degenerate, technologically amplified capitalism we might find ourselves trapped in.)
In a sense I guess everything is arguably emergent - but I'd prefer to look at the world differently here: And say: It was always imposed, always an elite construction from the top down and little has changed in basic terms the last 6000 years: still turning on grains/ploughing, slaves, taxation, debt and extraction. See for instance James Scott's https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-abstract/27/1/111/16841... In that light "Capitalism" is simply a reimposition, a re-application of same old tested and tried model of civilisation -- which collapses on average after 250 years when the soil is depleted - see David Montgomery: The original study: "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587916.Dirt Or the more interesting, constructive, later response (with a summary of Dirt): "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" / https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236132-growing-a-revolution