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cybernetics

capitalism’s contradictions: why unequal access keeps the system working

Post author By G
Post date Jul 30, 2026
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Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.

Tags capitalism, Complexity, control systems, cybernetics, delay, differential access, differential timing, feedback, housing, inequality, markets, ownership, political economy, scarcity, social systems, systems theory

Philosophy

Ownership and it’s Dissociative Selves

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Post date Jun 1, 2020
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A problem that I find myself returning to incessantly over the course of extended study and participatory observation in this human life and the diversity of cultural experience we all share is that of misunderstanding. The Philosophers would perhaps identify the problem as being one of Ontological Misunderstanding, of an essential mischaracterisation or ill-informed pattern […]

Tags art, emptiness, infinity, logic, mathematics, mind, mushin, mystery, ownership, paradox, Philosophy, possession, Rembrandt, self, truth, void, zen

Philosophy

Own your own emptiness

We are all empty, don’t let the shambling leviathan of commercial culture make you feel less than you are, feel worthless or unvalued and unloved.

Tags alienation, culture, emptiness, life, ownership, possessions, Psychology, self-identity

Alien Anthropology

Can anyone own the moon ?

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Post date Jan 20, 2019
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If personal subjectivity is a reflection of an internalised concept of ownership and property, what happens if it turns out that neither individual identity nor notions of ownership are, beyond a very limited and historically or culturally contingent sense, actually real ?