We have too many egos zig zagging away from a coherent standard of thought. This itself is a product of the processes of capitalist thought. The market has become a free fire zone where the loudest persuader corrals the largest amount of interest, thereby gaining power. And so each persuader is in vicious competition with one another, ruthlessly dragging whole social groups this way and that, desperately vying for more influence and thus more material wealth and well being.
What these individuals don't understand is the efficacy of their own effects on the human organism. As each fights to win over the hearts of millions, they alter the herd. Sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes not so much. As these effects accumulate, we become more and more fragmented; more and more schizophrenic, so that in the end result we are each an idiosyncratic mosaic of influences, influences that differ from person to person according to what attracts us most. We are completely out of sync with each other in terms of a larger, coordinated social function.
We have to struggle to understand because there are so many choices. More choices than we can physically cope with. These choices are abundant because our dominant social paradigm has seen to it that we separate each idea from its original environmental housing.
As a mode of thought, capitalism involves a process of extracting an idea from a raw source, and then packaging that idea to be multiplied and distributed to receptive agents for pay. So our society is based upon a market where selfish individuals move through the world, extracting ideas and selling them for profit. This has been devastating.
This process must be reversed.
But dammit, this post seems to me to be a mess. The message itself is shattered to pieces. Could be too much wine. Could be lifting too much weight. Could be a number of things. Articulating The Problem is itself made incredibly difficult by The Problem.
Or I'm just making it all too difficult. Ah well. Rest on it.
