There is no “economy.” There is only, as there always has been, ritual distribution from the center. I’m a little embarrassed that it took me so long, even after replacing the vocabularies of liberalism and democracy, to get to this conclusion—such is the power of propaganda.
Thanks! I wonder if you have any further inklings of how making explicit the working of derivatives will change them. Before the anglo welfare states took over social insurance, in part in response to the crisis of the 1930s, there were literally thousands of fraternal organizations that provided members with means of sickness, death, and burial insurance, job networks, and at times physical protection. And tied to all of this was a significant amount of energy tied up in inventing, learning, and performing a large number of initiatory rituals, which entailed re-imagining all kinds of classical and Biblical scenes, from the invention of modern Freemasonry in the 18th century through to more obviously insurance organizations like the OddFellows and Foresters, and all manner of ethnic and religious orders like the Knights of Columbus, B’nai Brith, or the Loyal Orange Association which controlled access to many working-class jobs at Canadian city halls.
If we are to see all the calculating energies put into derivatives as, at root, similarly ritualistic behaviour, albeit of a different, less “classical” kind, and if we think making this clearer will transform the culture of derivatives, do you think it would be in the direction of making ritualism somehow more explicit again? Or would it have to be in the direction of new forms of calculation that obscured, yet again, what they were about?
If so much of the derivative culture that has developed since the 1970s has depended on the pricing of oil trades in US dollars, giving that currency a certain status and identity (and if we read the current war in Ukraine as being ultimately about whether this will continue) might we intuit whether the development of the kind of political party you are suggesting would be better served by the continuance or decline of US dollar hegemony?
I can't say anything too specific about oil and dollar question, but, yes, I would think in terms of revivifying such organizations and creating new ones, this time with powerful data analysis and very specialized forms of service. I would expect the "ritual" to be more at the level of practice--by now there's a "cultic"--with no pejorative implication--dimension to all forms of care (in the broadest sense) even slightly outside of official channels.--than at the more organizational level.
Your inclusion of CasP and its use in analysis of actual Risk. Will be the tools in which self financialization of an opposing regime will take place. I ve been waiting for this idea to formulate, in terms of economic potential. Excellent work. Getting over event Intelligence is going to be tough. Losing "independence"
Information is a more general term, while I would see "event intelligence" as something more specific to GA, like "scenic thinking." So, I would see "event intelligence" generating new intelligence for the center, while "information collecting" could serve any purpose but the term itself introduces no distinction from work serving the existing order.
Thanks! I wonder if you have any further inklings of how making explicit the working of derivatives will change them. Before the anglo welfare states took over social insurance, in part in response to the crisis of the 1930s, there were literally thousands of fraternal organizations that provided members with means of sickness, death, and burial insurance, job networks, and at times physical protection. And tied to all of this was a significant amount of energy tied up in inventing, learning, and performing a large number of initiatory rituals, which entailed re-imagining all kinds of classical and Biblical scenes, from the invention of modern Freemasonry in the 18th century through to more obviously insurance organizations like the OddFellows and Foresters, and all manner of ethnic and religious orders like the Knights of Columbus, B’nai Brith, or the Loyal Orange Association which controlled access to many working-class jobs at Canadian city halls.
If we are to see all the calculating energies put into derivatives as, at root, similarly ritualistic behaviour, albeit of a different, less “classical” kind, and if we think making this clearer will transform the culture of derivatives, do you think it would be in the direction of making ritualism somehow more explicit again? Or would it have to be in the direction of new forms of calculation that obscured, yet again, what they were about?
If so much of the derivative culture that has developed since the 1970s has depended on the pricing of oil trades in US dollars, giving that currency a certain status and identity (and if we read the current war in Ukraine as being ultimately about whether this will continue) might we intuit whether the development of the kind of political party you are suggesting would be better served by the continuance or decline of US dollar hegemony?
I can't say anything too specific about oil and dollar question, but, yes, I would think in terms of revivifying such organizations and creating new ones, this time with powerful data analysis and very specialized forms of service. I would expect the "ritual" to be more at the level of practice--by now there's a "cultic"--with no pejorative implication--dimension to all forms of care (in the broadest sense) even slightly outside of official channels.--than at the more organizational level.
Your inclusion of CasP and its use in analysis of actual Risk. Will be the tools in which self financialization of an opposing regime will take place. I ve been waiting for this idea to formulate, in terms of economic potential. Excellent work. Getting over event Intelligence is going to be tough. Losing "independence"
Thanks, but what do you mean by "getting over event intelligence"?
Data collection as you stated, there is no apparatus to use it for anything other than quantifying consumption
I see. I didn't understand why you referred to this as "event intelligence."
Would the two be the same or similar? Event Intelligence and information collection
Information is a more general term, while I would see "event intelligence" as something more specific to GA, like "scenic thinking." So, I would see "event intelligence" generating new intelligence for the center, while "information collecting" could serve any purpose but the term itself introduces no distinction from work serving the existing order.