soundofthegenuine:universalequalityisinevitable:Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video
soundofthegenuine:universalequalityisinevitable:Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.I just started watching, but there are other brilliant observations that he makes in the early part of this lecture:“If state power was removed or reduced drastically capitalism is just a variation of scarcity-driven, specialization and property-based exchange system…Property value in the midst of this scarcity demanded regulation and laws. Not only to protect property but to protect commerce and also avoid scams and fraud in transactions. This is the seed of the state…You need regulation…You will always have regulatory power centers in a market economy, the state and the market are inseparable. In a world where everything is for sale, where the reward reinforcement, the operant condition, is directly tired to seeking personal advantage and gain, who is to say where the lines are to be drawn in that process? This is why moral principles without structural reinforcement are useless.In the end the question is not whether is it morally right or morally wrong, the question is what works and what doesn’t.Bigotry in all forms is not just ugly, it is culturally unsustainable because it generates conflict. I’m not aware of any slave owning society that did not undergo large slave rebellions. It’s unstable and therefore unsustainable. And market capitalism is on the same path.And I have little doubt if we get through this rough period of time without destroying ourselves by war, uprisings, or ecological collapse, people in the future will look back at our world today with the same disgust regarding our human-rights-violating economic system as we today look back on the period upon the period of abject human slavery.This leads us well into the subject of class warfare and socioeconomic inequality…A great deal of time has been spent by many critics of capitalism describing how it is, indeed, a system of exploitation which inherently separates a society into stratified economic layers…Inequity and class separation is a direct mathematical result of the market’s inherently competitive orientation which divides individuals and small groups as they work to compete against each other for survival and security. It is entirely individualistically oriented, driven by a core incentive system, based around isolated self preservation, assuming the need to constantly reinforce one’s security, financially, since market climate, the environment, gives no certainty whatsoever of well-being in and of itself.You are only as free as your purchasing power will allow you to be.”and niggas think i’m crazy when i say stuff like this. man. people so sleep out chea -- source link