DEHUMANIZING – LIKE A VIDEO YOU CAN”T LOOK AWAY FROM? 🙂 (from elsewhere)(edited

DEHUMANIZING – LIKE A VIDEO YOU CAN”T LOOK AWAY FROM? 🙂

(from elsewhere)(edited)

Explaining the Propertarian perspective to an inquirer:

–“The fundamental difference in my perspective is that I reduce almost everything to a particular calculus using a particular grammar, after having observed that humans are, in the large part, acquisitive – even if acquisitive of non material things.

It’s a physical necessity that expensive life forms like ours remain acquisitive of so many things: experiences, knowledge, opportunities, relationships, mates, offspring, insurance, material goods – and particularly anything that we can inventory for later use.

Our emotions are reactions to changes in state of our assets. Our language is a process of aggregation and loading necessary to increasingly compress complexity. And our arguments largely justification and framing for both internal and external social protocol.

And that’s actually humiliating somehow. I find my work a bit like a video you can’t look away from: it’s both fascinating and, well, somewhat like discovering that the earth and man are not centers of the universe. Because in the end, it turns out we’re pretty simple. And most of what we do is social-dance protocol that signals conformity to norms while pursuing our self interest: acquisition.”–