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I’m always amused by these takes because they are implicitly submissive. It only makes sense if you posit the world as some kind of omnipotent power structure i
by WastingMyTime89 4y ago
I’m always amused by these takes because they are implicitly submissive. It only makes sense if you posit the world as some kind of omnipotent power structure imposing things on an other powerless strata. I think Americans are drawn to these ideas because they have a somewhat individualistic culture.
Meanwhile society is fundamentally built on exchange and community. Strictly antisocial structures like the one you described are doomed to fail because if you set aside the majority, you become a minority trend.
That’s in a way the paradox at the heart of modern capitalism. A system which alienates everyone expect a few is a dead system.
- _oghd 4y agoDeleuze has a good really short essay called Postscript on Societies of Control[1] on the machinic nature of capitalism. maybe we are saying the same thing, and I absolutely agree that Americans have a fundamentally individualist viewpoint. however I still see your argument as being rooting in human perspective. capitalism is a human institution as much as our human body is a cellular institution. apoptosis is as fundamental to a functioning human body as exploitative labor relations are to capital. I don't see it as submissive because in a control society, governed by computers and machine learning models, humans are in fact freed in a certain way, channeled toward production. this is coupled with ideology which is already present to make it feel less alienating, even preferable. however capital is far from dead. and whatever human individual or institutional churning happens in the next 30 years due to tech I don't see having a significant impact. 1. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-posts...