Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

Had a profound insight today quite by accident, and the framing of government as ‘reproduction’ (commons) and ‘production’ trade.

I’m trying to identify the ‘false’ metaphpysical value judgements we rely upon in the west.

one of them is hard to describe – it’s the tendency of people to think they can step off the train of the world and the train of the world keeps going and they can re-board the train when they understand what’s going on. But that’s not true any more than every time we launch a satellite we slow the earth’s rotation a bit. So there is this concept of stasis to the world that is false.

The other is what we call the time preference theory of interest – but which is an incomplete statement. Man decreases time to produce, he does not increase production.

another is the concept of the government as a singular entity other than a hierarchy of necessary functions in order to construct two orders: the order of reproduction, and to facilitate that with the order of production.

The current system of ‘individual’ government conflates all these processes and is constructed for little more than the systematic destruction of the system of reproduction : the family.

So, I’m going to keep on this for a bit and see if I can find a narrative that wraps all propertarian metaphysics of cooperation (the story or model of how our human world operates) into something comprehensible.

If I can do that then the problem of telling a story weaving together the rather numerous ideas in propertarianism and testimonialism will be much easier to distribute to others.

Right now its just too many ideas without a central narrative.

The central narrative is that we’re destroying the system of reproduction (family and tribe, and nation-state) and creating a corporation (industrializing human reproduction and production) except it looks like it’s counter productive.

It is transformative, just like war is, or just like the Chinese did. It’s transformative to industrialize great movements. But once the transformation is complete, you are still stuck with returning to survival, reproduction, and production.