Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

A lot more living in the moment over here. It’s an interesting phenomenon:

Having not enough.

Having enough.

Having more than enough.

When you don’t have enough you must struggle to plan against risk.

When you have enough, you don’t stress, and invest time in people as entertainment.

When you have more than enough you don’t stress and invest in status and consumption.

And for those who organise production under capitalism, signalling is important. And for the upper classes, investing in signals that will evolve into consumer goods under mass production is a necessary good.

Then we have the envious who desire status that they do not earn. And as such want to reduce the status of others in what is the worst possible redistribution.

And the we have the dishonest thieves who obtain status not from organising production or creating a Propertarian order, but who gain their status through assisting in the transfer of wrath and status from some to others by involuntary means.

Like the woman who gains status from acts of charity distributing wealth earned by her father or husband, or the public intellectual or progressive voter who advocates and instructs by vote, the theft from productive to unproductive.

Where the conservative says that receipt of charity requires demonstrated acts of moral behaviour – an act of exchange for support.

The progressive privatises while the conservative constructs commons.