Haunted by Adam Smiths observation that the essence of utility is humanitys fundamental vulnerability. Were frail monkeys endowed of grey matter that learned to cook food over fire to kill the harmful microbes and soften plant cellulose for digestibility, learned to wear animal skins to force back the cold, and eventually, applied these faculties to aesthetic tailorship and novel variety for the sake of variety. This implies 3 things that we already know: Following the industrial revolution, whereafter a peasant could acquire a new garb at their leisure, rather than every four months after deducting food (take heed, Julius Malema), all trade has been informed by the assumption of abundance and its anesthesizing and liberating self-interest in relation to assumed value, all value as derived, indeed, from labour, in accord with the perception of the nominal value at base no further than the consumer, and the entire world of trade and commerce of which we live in is a holographic fiction of the embodied values of the human mind. Were essentially a delusional cancer debating human rights and wages on a train to extinction- fortunately not in our lifetime, or the consequences may become unmanageably political.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:13:29 +0000