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You can be sure that any recognized power source that appears to be initiating change is actually doing the exact opposite. For a perfect example, look at Bono, lead singer of the band U2. His public persona as a progressive voice for a handful of liberal causes ensures his visibility and keeps his records moving off the shelf. He is not changing anything by promoting a GAP sponsored marketing campaign to help alleviate the AIDS epidemic in Africa. He is simply ensuring the sale of more blue jeans and doing a great service to capitalism – the very force that has kept Africa in uneducated poverty for the past three-hundred years.
This artificial movement perpetuated by capitalism is echoed in the rhetoric of capitalist advocates. They will argue that capitalism is a dynamic system of constant flux vulnerable to the slightest drought or enhanced by the smallest gust of wind. The indoctrination of Western culturization may even lead you to believe this. However fluctuational capitalism may be on a micro or transparent scale, the perceived adaptiveness of capitalism only re-enforces its hierarchical structure. Think about it. While technology changes rapidly the rules of capitalism remain the same. So, we are forced to format our technology toward capitalist ends. If a new technology cannot be marketed, sold, processed or shipped it won't reach the public. There is no telling what utterly outrageous direction our carbonated silicon acuity could take us if it was unleashed from the shackles of the open market. We should have AM radios in our kites. We should have underwater fireworks. We should have reverse waffle-makers. Instead, we find ourselves constantly |
adapting to the rules and boundaries of capitalism, while it should be the other way around. Capitalism, the system of indifference, stagnates to the evolving rules of humanity. Stasis is resistance to revolution.
There is enough actual movement taking place within our galactic cul-de-sac, that we do not need to be stigmatized by the artificial vibrations of capitalism. Like the pile, there are scales of movement and there is movement within stasis and there is stasis within movement. Geologically speaking, life moves at a staggered rate. In the vocabulary of current cultural and technological breakthroughs we move at an exponential rate. The infinite aerobics of the subatomic world ensure that the universe never stagnates for too long.
One of the grandest illusions of movement, though, and it springs from our anthropocentric perspectives, is the idea that movement is either forward or backward – that we are progressing or receding. This is a universe devoid of centrality. When there is no starting point, there can be no direction. The pockets of material collusion that have manifested themselves in space are dispersed randomly throughout the sphere of existence. Our tendency to order the exterior world into manageable fragments, which proceeds global capitalism by about 2500 years, leads us to believe that all phenomena are strung together in a linear fashion, extending in a progressive line from the alpha-human eye.
In this chapter we hope to eradicate these misconceptions and provide a more adaptable platform for the concept of movement.
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