tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post6933744631439965859..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: modern myths that destroy humanityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-77174073651541562772012-03-09T13:31:45.829-06:002012-03-09T13:31:45.829-06:00I think the more fundamental myths at the root of ...I think the more fundamental myths at the root of these are those of "modernization" or progress, and they myth of meritocracy for individuals/individualism. Of course, these myths are not absolutes: far from it...but for my money, these concepts underpin the two points mentioned above. <br /><br />You cannot blame individual poor people for their individual poverty unless you have a world view or paradigm that posits individuals at the center of all action and responsibility, and also perceives constraints (even at the macro-economic level) as operable within individual dynamics and not group dynamics. It took centuries for Europeans/Americans/Westerners to come to this conclusion, and it trailed their material dominance, so it's not so surprising. <br /><br />Consigning groups of people (tribes, races, nations) to the 3rd world similarly requires some beliefs about progress, innate ability, and other things that simply don't square with reality. The myth about consumption and production is really a mere by-product of the European ("middle ages") interpretation of a real scarcity dynamic with respect to food, land, security, etc. Temple3http://temple3.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-12631272527726804992012-03-06T13:06:27.026-06:002012-03-06T13:06:27.026-06:00The economic wargame is a continuation of the mili...The economic wargame is a continuation of the military wargame by other means.<br /><br />It is curious how economists can't suggest something as simple as mandatory double-entry accounting in the schools and I am not aware of any Western country implementing such a thing. THE WORKERS are supposed to think of themselves as WORKERS.<br /> umbrarchisthttp://twitter.com/umbrarchistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-18542693508860628982012-03-05T11:20:47.042-06:002012-03-05T11:20:47.042-06:00We are going can teach that old "voodoo"...We are going can teach that old "voodoo" lesson about how we are all connected in the re-birthed consciousness.....<br />http://www.livescience.com/18814-humans-spooky-quantum-entanglement.htmlnanakwamenoreply@blogger.com