Monday, 25 February 2013

Five elements of doom


How cultures disappear to stay as warnings in history books. How difficult it is to see this affecting us as much as others were affected.
  1. environmental damage
  2. climate change 
  3. hostile neighbors 
  4. friendly trade partners
  5. a society's response to its environmental problems
This is from Jared Diamond.

Attack on the power-elite

There is a perceivable similarity in the way Nietzsche, the Sun Tzu and Machiavelli's The Prince handle the relationship between wars and the elite. Nietzsche calls for the masters to live dangerously and not care for the principle of will to live. This would lead them eventually to their demise. So it might be possible that he wanted the master to be vanquished by their own hand. The same can be seen in works mentioned above as well. Perhaps Marx should be in the list as well...His method was not a subtle attack at any point perhaps other than the second part of his work. Perhaps such demagogue's position was meant as a provocation of reaction against him.
His thought process yielded a huge power over the minds of many. In that it worked quite like religions do. He is certainly one of the powerful men of history. What more?
In the advocation of revolution as the only method of social end for capitalism he becomes the sales manager for the weapons industry. It is the military industrial complex that cannot be dislodged with any fighting, that would clearly just prolong the historical process burdened and enthralled by violence, aggression, and hence this cannot be a road towards communism.  In support of this here is how communism developed in Russia:
         To overcome our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism.
September 1918, Grigory Zinoviev
Perpetual war as a function of the state to coerce its citizens continues. This keeps the power elite in power over the means of destruction.

Overcoming the immortal industry of death
An attack is not enough. It would just keep things running in the same channel. Psychological usurpation is necessary. Public relations actions have been used before in overcoming a war. Protests can be carried out in many ways.
Communal enterprises could lead the way. Any attacks would just propagate the historical class struggle in many new forms.  It would become meaner, taking less lives but putting ever more people at the owner class' mercy.

Saturday, 9 February 2013

On all fronts

I think now, having undergone a somewhat exhilarating metamorphosis in my political views, that the proponents of socialism should advance on all fronts towards it. Meaning that they should take each route available and regularly come together to see, compare and review the various techniques and ways with each other so that a democratic process would draw the most people to the most successful routes that result in the most stable forms of socialism.

The routes to socialism:

  1. Reformist, the democratic route
  2. Revolutionary, the vanguard's route
    1. Exported/foreign funded socialism
    2. Domestically originating socialism
  3. Grassroots expansion of cooperative communities towards a sustainable and independent route
    While Marx downplays this route, "small-scale socialistic communities would be bound to marginalisation and poverty."  Why would large scale enterprises work? What would happen to a summation of the smaller communities if they would take up the whole society in a state?
  4. Exodus and creating a community in an established socialist country
  5. Technological revolution can make it affordable for the majority class to own and operate the means of production so blurring the line between the owners and the producers
  6. Philanthropist, the charitable route

The revolutionary route seems doubtful, I believe that this would create a foundation for a bickering elite running the country possibly in a centralised manner and not form a stable, politically sustainable state. It would be based on coercion quite the same as capitalist societies.

While there has been no success overall towards a permanent revolution, the combination of all methods may form a wider road towards freedom from the shackles of capital.

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Production of the mythology of efficiency

Is there not a parallel between the constant production of the Veil - the object of concealment, or an enveiling packaging of the capitalist system created for the class without the means of production and the production of fantasy from the workings of our unconcsious psyche?

In fact, as with any mythology the person that comes to believe it, pays for it. Capitalism creates a ruthlessly efficient system of the myth-making (for example one part of such credo is the story of an efficient market in comparison to the public sector) where the myths are constantly on sale and in fact in demand.

This works splendidly well also in state-capitalism. Both capitalism and state-capitalism are bounded by their respective belief-systems. This production works to produce the culture of the society.

What does this connection between the unconscious mind and the economic system indicate? The former is after all often the source of the success of the economic system. We could infer that something like the complexes of the psyche influence and reoccur in the economic system.

While culture is considered as one of the most value-ladden of products, I see here a reason to put a reversion on this price. Since we have to consume the culture to be indoctrinated in the system and sustain the sum of mythologies of capitalism so that we make good consumers and good workers. We should be paid to be believing in this mechanism of nonsense!

The coming to consciousness of this Veil can be solved by creating more culture inspired by other forms of economics, a production of culture that spreads faster and speaks of the reality without a motive to imbibe capitalism into the persons' moral sentiments.

Internet and IT in general provide the individual with the power to create and share their creativity to others, amusingly this is happening. What keeps the motive in this new growing culture to reverse capitalism while sustaining itself as a society and working faster and more powerfully than the capitalist culture?

Friday, 1 February 2013

From individuation in tribes to formation of civilization

What happens when people in their communities begin their process of individuation?
Where does it lead to? What are the consequences?

The legend of five webs

A few extrapolations on the possible progress of the web.
  1. WEB 1.0 The web based on web pages on servers. Search engines. Wide accessibilty, ease of posting.
    1.5 Forums and chatrooms, affordable hosting servers
  2. WEB 2.0 Social Media - Collaborative cooperation and two-way webservices
    The CMS, instant messaging, wiki
  3. WEB 3.0 Semantic web - Big data,  meaningful data, analytical engines take over search engines, news, search and investment bots. Web gains the possiblity to reason and begins to reason based on human impetus and desires. Lifelogs.
    MOOC,
    wiki
    Watson
  4. WEB 4.0 Pragmatic web - Internet of things creates a possbility to interact with everything from architecture to vehicles to nature to our health. The web begins to make and facilitate changes in our environment on an ever-increasing pace and period. Down to daily and perhaps even constant flow.
    Users begin to make their world according to their personal and shared vision.
    thingiverse.com
    robots
    agents/cybertwins
    RoboEarth Cloud Engine - 2013
  5. WEB 5.0 Teleological web - Nanocultures, Valuecosm, an internet of wishfulfilment. People express their good wishes to get a response and effort by the web to match it or some reasoning to guide  wishes so that they comply with the sustainability principle. The eutopian principle of "maximum fulfilment of personal desires to the maximum number of people possible in the society so that the minimal principle of elimination of all suffering is upheld" begins to form an aim for existence.
  6. WEB 6.0 Spiritual web - uploaded memories and eventually whole "spirits," the whole of the way of thinking and the whole experiences of the person