Is it weird that you feel like somehow like you're strangely hooked into a pre-determined timeline because of the coincidences? Or that guy mentioned dialecticism as a way to think about how the mind-reality nexus expands. So it could just be that you're keeping up with things and have an idea about where some of it could go, because your mind has a lot of understanding of the limits of society?
Think about the notion that the philosophers all have a mind that is fairly "standard". What are the problems that the mind naturally gravitates to due to cerebral edgework? How much of the objective domain can a subjective domain cover? Much less of the complete "big picture" domain is possible because they're so much information out there (boundary). However, much more of what can be known is known because of our access to all parts of the world, most historical documents, and democratically researched information on every topic (Wikipedia). Moreover, because ideas are getting more radicalized on the one hand but also people are becoming more visible in terms of the pictures into their lives and how they conduct themselves on social media, the fundamental spaces that theoretical futures occupy become more stark. "Communism (/socialism) doesn't work. Period." "Well how can we make it work?" "It will only turn into butchery because of human nature." "But then how can we do better?" "It doesn't work. Period." The possibilities within the domain of non-capitalist economics are huge. And yet, in the same breath, people will say "you have to learn the extremely fine nuances of capitalism to understand the underlying problems and why they can eventually be fixed or are 'human nature', for example..." We have journals and journals outlining why capitalism works and maintaining that all the shenanigans are "imperfectly implemented capitalistic principles" or "predicated on human nature", but we have only a few articles scattered in a few journals about why an alternative to capitalism makes sense and is warranted. The fact is that there becomes certain patterns that can more easily make understanding popular culture quicker and easier to understand. Like a telescoping effect. It's like our minds are all swaying in a certain direction because of the rapidly collapsing diversity of culture through globalized democracy by capitalism. Capitalism diversifies the market because people are looking for things that are original. But markets also become more specialized and restrictive because products get pushed out via popular consumption due to the necessity of putting profits above all. We are leaning more into seeing what's popularly original or originally popular (production for consumption) rather than originally original (production for progress). So then consumption becomes progress. Sisyphus endpoint?
Malagasy slaves? Comoros? Ingenuity without profit? "What could humanity be capable of when it's not just about survival and competition for power?" Why is this "human nature"?
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