RE: In Defence And Praise Of The Crypto Snowflake
Delighted to meet a genuine, self-proclaimed, Crystalline Snowflake. And residing in the Tropical Belt - Tropic of Capricorn.
Right and Left still have some meaning but not much. To consider Sound Money, pro Free Market libertarians as "Conservative" or "on the Right," or the "Extreme Paleo-Right" is to cling to bias and seriously miss the mark.
Yes, this whole paradigm will be overturned and replaced by a new Thought Form and everything that was so smug will be rendered irrelevant, at least until it comes back in style in the next cycle. That's the kind of unstable world we live in.
I think we can agree that it does require Human Action (governance and self-governance) to guide us through these changes. Embodied life is a type of bondage and sane people look for ways and means to pay back the debt, and attenuate the grip of Darkness over the Light.
That's for sure! We are all courageous just for being here regardless of where we it is that we are coming from. Great comment!
Deconstructing the World is a worthwhile pastime and I propose, mostly the province of Sages and Comedians. The Laughing Buddha was clearly laughing about something.
So you observe that property rights are of little importance to the younger generations, and that they are more interested in "community." Well yes, as long as they have a general sense of well being, they may not miss what they don't have. But as insight tells us, any leaning, whether leaning on "community" or leaning on wealth can be very harmful to the individual.
Murry Rothbard has mentioned in his writings that "all rights are really Property Rights." And that Self ownership is the basis of all other ownerships. And that there are really only three choices as regards ownership: 1) that it is owned by nobody, 2) that it is owned by everybody and 3) that someone, namely the individual owns itself, at least for the time being. Finally that if any of these are manageable, it must certainly be the third choice.
This is a discovery process only.
Ownership and property rights are one of the dominant metaphors of our age and property as a metaphor definitely deconstructs the world.
Self ownership being the basis of all other ownerships. This makes me think knowing thyself is the basis of all other knowings.
I guess the discovery process I was exploring was what does property mean in the age of open source cooperatives, blockchains and zero marginal cost. Maybe it was a reaction to people worrying about hoarding their wealth rather than imagining something different. And even that what property rights grants us in a competitive marketplace communities might grant us in a cooperative commons.
But it could well all just have been a naive snowflake wish!
Well no doubt we are in FLUX, but so are we always. (Our civilization is now in flux.) Re: Self-Ownership, I agree that deep inquiry into "Who am I" UN-DOES everything. The World is false, a 'momentary' illusion.
The underlying Truth is never absent though, it's omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, Existence, Knowledge, Bliss, Name and Form. The last two form the tangled Web of Ignorance in which we live.
But I think I do see where you are coming from and I see the same thing: The Rules can be drastically different now. The deck is being reshuffled. Almost anything can happen. Things like "Guaranteed Incomes" may be proposed by for-profit enterprises. Governments too can be open-sourced.
Certainly we must experiment to find out where the limits are. Certainly Man proposes and God, Nature, The Absolute disposes of our dreams and wishes.
Fantastic Food for Thought, thanks.
I really enjoyed that exchange. Looking forward to your next post on such things!
And btw I'm not a relativist, at least not lately. I especially like how you say the underlying Truth is never absent. An evolving Truth that we all share - and create - together. Absolute(ly)
Thanks back @lyfo