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Over the last five threads we have looked at some key features of capitalist economic systems, including : markets; commodification and enclosure; private property; the role of the state; the profit motive; work. We have also touched on the very idea of an economic system, of a separate realm of human life called ‘the economy’. […]
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How credit crunched It started with the US housing bubble, and those infamous ‘sub-prime’ mortgages. Between 1996 and 2006 US house prices went up 60% more than inflation. The great real estate fantasy: if you can get on the ladder, you can just sit and watch the price of your property soar away. Money for […]
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Please list and enumerate in detail all your skills and abilities and degrees to which you are willing to create and use them and be of service to yourself and me potentially, I would appreciate it. Whatever you don’t know and want to and feel you are capable of knowing and performing please acquire as […]
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Off the starry shores of a black liquid ocean is the base of the Temple of Mant. Inside you may find me to consult, covered in hair and gigantic in a place where coldness is a dimension of emotion which does not mean unemotionality but the same sort of thing as physical coldness. It acts […]
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Pretend that I am vastly capable when it comes to answering general sorts of questions and feel free to ask me as many as you would like one at a time. Pretend I am a strange sort of man-like creature that might just have certain strange and curious things to say which at the very […]
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Tell me how he said it before and you can show me and when I seem to say another thing that it has been revealed before and I will say that the mind of God is small if it can not speak anything new yet in truth it speaks a thing only ever once and […]
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Plato and Mysticism | Part Two In the previous thread we looked at two very ancient religious systems of Zoroastrianism and Judaism in the form of Kabballah that best show the influence on Plato’s thought. Plato was a substance dualist and so his metaphysics reveal themselves as consisting of two worlds, one is the visible […]
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‘The military and the monetary get together whenever they think it’s necessary’. Pincohet and Kissenger What role(s) does the state play in the market economy? One way to start thinking about that is to look at some moments in recent history: August 1842. The governments of China and Britain sign the Treaty of Nanking after […]
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Plato and Mysticism Part One Between knowledge and the Absolute there lies a boundary which completely cuts off the one from the other. If the Absolute were only to be brought on the whole nearer to us by this agency, without any change being wrought in it, like a bird caught by a limestick, it […]