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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 05:18:20

What about the 20% neutral or antisocial?

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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby americandream » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 05:25:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'W')hat about the 20% neutral or antisocial?

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A percentage have biochemical issues and other physiological problems. That 80 percent includes those of a conservative leaning.

In other words, those who are unable to give effect to the underlying bonds of reason that hold us together as a species and have excusable physiological conditions that essentially exclude them from full participation in society.

If you are looking for a Rebel without a Cause specimen, that really only exists in the well coiffured corridors of Hollywood. In reality, we are a group species and very dependant on one another.
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 06:00:19

My suspicion is that you are correct for a reference to pre-modern megalopolis hominids, where the former have active ongoing participation in a conscious but in no way contrived manner, the latter are largely infantilized & the peace & sharing is an artifice of abundance in this context. The shift required to feed the latter sustainably, I believe, won't happen. What form re-emerging agrarian society takes? Most likely like it did most places before the need for elaborate transcontinental structures became the reality for even most geographically remote people in developed countries. Indeed, one of the definitions if developed is this very network dependence.. I don't much buy people just keep going to work, starving.
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby Newfie » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 07:26:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'C')are to elaborate on that stat? Interesting...


Yes, I too would like to see some metric that substantiates that point. Not more rheotoric.
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby americandream » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 08:20:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'C')are to elaborate on that stat? Interesting...


Yes, I too would like to see some metric that substantiates that point. Not more rheotoric.



Why? Are you that intent on proving your point....that brute savagery is our only option/fate. I would suggest some medical help to substantiate your evident medical condition.

It should concern any reasonably minded person that such deep and entrenched resisitance to, what after all, are quite mild and reasonable observations, rises with such recurrent hostility.

This world will not, if there is the will, fall prey to sea gypsies intent on garnering their own personal harems on the high seas. We will endeavour to ensure that Reason prevails.
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby Newfie » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 11:57:25

Or possibly your are just spouting stuff you cant substantiate?
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby Pops » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 12:42:09

The problem with the "problem of infinite accumulation in a finite world" is wealth does not infinitely accumulate.

China is the worlds largest economy and 30 percent of the equity "wealth" there has evaporated in the last couple weeks... not to mention that real estate has been headed down for a while and who knows where it really is..

That's $3Trillion in "accumulation" that went poof, it definitely was not infinite.

I kinda think a person needs to separate in their head the idea of wealth as actual physical stuff — stuff with a positive present, tangible value, from stuff with an apparent future value based on BAU.

I guess I need to read more but at this point I see the future following along the path of Ricardo's theory of scarcity and rents than Marx's theory of surpluses of capital and labor. "Mining" surpluses of labor for profit was a great theory during the industrial revolution but I think it was energy slaves that provided and enabled the surplus, not capital and certainly not capitalists.
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 13:27:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', ' ')[AD} ...just spouting stuff you cant substantiate?


+1

AD doesn't have to substantiate anything he believes. Its part of his religious faith in Marxism and "circular communism"

Just as a Christian deeply BELIEVES that Jesus is coming again to create an earthly paradise, AD deeply BELIEVES that the masses will rise up and create a worker's paradise.
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby Pops » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 13:30:23

I'm pretty sure Karl thought there were 2 options, the other being the capitalists would turn on each other.
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 16:39:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'I')'m pretty sure Karl thought there were 2 options, the other being the capitalists would turn on each other.


If Marx wrote it down in his book of prophecies (i.e. Das Kapital) then AD probably believes in that too. :roll:
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby americandream » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 18:16:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'T')he problem with the "problem of infinite accumulation in a finite world" is wealth does not infinitely accumulate.

China is the worlds largest economy and 30 percent of the equity "wealth" there has evaporated in the last couple weeks... not to mention that real estate has been headed down for a while and who knows where it really is..

That's $3Trillion in "accumulation" that went poof, it definitely was not infinite.

I kinda think a person needs to separate in their head the idea of wealth as actual physical stuff — stuff with a positive present, tangible value, from stuff with an apparent future value based on BAU.

I guess I need to read more but at this point I see the future following along the path of Ricardo's theory of scarcity and rents than Marx's theory of surpluses of capital and labor. "Mining" surpluses of labor for profit was a great theory during the industrial revolution but I think it was energy slaves that provided and enabled the surplus, not capital and certainly not capitalists.


Ricardo provides us with a basis for the one off exercise of rent appropriation, in classic economic tradition. Marx goes one further in identifying the resultant source of the accumulative capacity latent in that transaction (dependent of course on social relations), and thus the nature of labour and the encompassing social relations.

Within that composite framework lie many of the answers we seek in our search for the closing chapters to global scale resource exhaustion and of course, that most troubling of all, climate degredation.

So the Marxian view not only encompasses, implicitly, the rent mechanism, it then takes that the logical extent of its application into the domain of social relations, thus teasing out the ultimate scope of capitalism, its tendencies and contradictions. Appropriation and labour surplus....keys in the nature of the oncoming crisis and its scope.
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby americandream » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 18:52:44

To fully appreciate the magnitude of the oncoming crisis, classic economics is insufficient. Only social economy fills the void.

On the climate front, we will enter a fractal period which could plunge us into an ice age for a 1000 years. Alternately, temperatures could soar for a 1000 years driving marginal life to the margins. What we do know is that trend fractility awaits us in which the brutish fantasies of some will simply evaporate. We cannot endure trend fractility. Range fractility, yes, trend fractility, no.

This is a global systemic issue calling for a global systemic remedy. And above all, logic, not ego.
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 18:58:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'w')e will enter a fractal period which could plunge us into an ice age for a 1000 years.


Is that one of Karl Marx's predictions?

I don't think so.

Be careful, AD ---- you are getting perilously close to thinking for yourself there.....

Its an incoherently silly thought to be sure----but nonetheless it sure doesn't sound like your usual preachings taken directly from the book of Marx. :)
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Re: when will the masses rise up

Unread postby americandream » Tue 07 Jul 2015, 19:07:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'w')e will enter a fractal period which could plunge us into an ice age for a 1000 years.


Is that one of Karl Marx's predictions?

I don't think so.

Be careful, AD ---- you are getting perilously close to thinking for yourself there.....

Its an incoherently silly thought to be sure----but nonetheless it sure doesn't sound like your usual preachings taken directly from the book of Marx. :)


Fractility appears in all of nature. Also the markets. As a system approaches trend instability, it enters into trend fractility which is extreme volatility (as opposed to range fractility which is shorter time framed and less so.)

As we reconfigure the gaseous makeup of the climate envelope or macro envelope, a trend function, trend fractility will follow.

Success in comprehending anything can be deduced through logic, backed up of course by a logic basis. Scientific social economy is as good as you get in both understanding the markets and understanding fractility in general.

Try it. It will certainly leave you less noisy and more contemplative.
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