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Domestic Products, and there relative ebbs and flows, is a good barometer of national health is rarely asked or conceived. If a developing government wants to be a part of the international capitalist system, and it has very little choice in this matter....blah, blah, blah, farm subsidies, blah, blah, blah.
You can read about all this in any manual for left-centric thought. The dry mechanics of finance are not our primary concern. We have no desire to spout the agenda of one extreme of political thought (or the other). There are a great many people that capitalism clearly and infrastructurally accommodates. However, since most of the people that will read this book live within a prospering Western capitalism, we are more interested in outlining the negative effects upon ourselves. The less tangible conditions imposed by capitalism on its adherents and architects can be just as psychologically damaging as the tactile effects are physically damaging to the economically suppressed. The most incriminating byproduct of capitalism is the pattern in which it corrodes our perception of the world. This is as forceful an accusation as it sounds like. It is the aim of capitalism to make the world appear as simple as possible. Capitalism must breakdown the complex variables that propel international resource allocation so that the consumer can make as quick a purchase decision as possible. Capitalism accomplishes this simplification on many levels. It begins by cracking the environment into opposable extremes. Capitalism presents the consumer with countless brands, and this is misconstrued as choice. There are no genuine choices in capitalism. Have you noticed that your life seems to be |
dominated by the perceived appearance of constant dualities (light/dark, on/off, 1/0, A/not A)? Perhaps you're not dominated by the natural appearance of these binary representations, but rather, you are uncontrollably persuaded to contrive these dualities from your surrounding environment.
These outdated dichotomies of ancient psychology are really just corporate infrastructures conceived to limit our thinking – in fact, to make it easier to think – to narrow the scope of our interpretation of the universe – our capacity to understand. These are psychologically derived roadblocks to a fuller awareness. There is nothing intrinsically dualistic about the universe itself. Thinking in dualities pulls a person from one extreme to the other, in fact pulls the entire society in polar directions. Duality inflicts the world with strict definitions that disallow common ground or cooperation.
This effect is devastating in the culture of politics, leading to stagnation and suppression of progressive ideas. One side stacked against the other – politics has been so drastically oversimplified that the only choice a citizen has to make is red or blue – this color coated politics is simple enough for a toddler to grasp. On a corollary, when you approach extremes, you actually begin to have more in common with your opposite extreme. One extreme is simply a mirrored image of the other, a reflection. Extremes don't generate ideas, they just contrast the assumptions of the other extreme. This causes a loop of simplified reasoning and a vaporization of reality.
The duality is a set, a set of two to be precise. Piles are not sets (nor can they even exist with only two inputs). Piles disperse their energy and information without prejudice or
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