Much of what capitalism conditions us to fear in communism is what concentrated capitalism already does: centralise power, narrow freedom, restrict opportunity and preserve poverty as structural necessity.
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the strange ontology of power
Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
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status hierarchy: role-play
Perceived importance is simply the output function of an ongoing game of organisational status hierarchy, social roleplay and meritocratic make-believe.
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irony age
Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.
Neurotic bureaucracies do not resist autocracy; they often rehearse for it.
Daedelus Kite 