Burnsy dropping the mic again.
It's an argument you can't win, though. The belief in an objective value system based on teleological "fact" is unshakable. It's the entire basis for how we understand time, space, and ourselves. Without it, the earth just simply...spins. It's a dog eat dog world out there. Fake it 'til you make it. Guess who's coming to dinner?
The whole thing is based on a simple logical fallacy, that is in fact fallible by its very own logic. Humans need water to live, water is in limited supply at any given time, the amount of water demanded can be measured against the amount of water in supply, [size=small][font=arial, sans-serif]∴[/font][/size] water has value. Yet, humans do not pre-exist water, humans are born from water, so the supply that is needed created the demand in the first place. Without water, there is no demand for water.
All supply and demand works this way. Supply always creates demand, there is no binary. All value, all wealth, all power, is in the hands of the supplier. The supplier determines what we should demand and how much. Those who supply also demand payment, and that payment is not quantifiable because it is physically embodied, it is not an abstract value. The supplier's demands are paid in labour and in life. Currency only facilitates the extraction of labour from a population, a social lubricant. Labour itself earns nothing but the so-called opportunity to work. The "small business" is just a swollen individual, a repository of labour that can be extracted from more easily, a community's voluntary serfdom, in a sense. True privilege is to be able to demand labour and labour alone, and all the numbers are just for keeping up appearances. Divine Right.
Labour has all the power, then, in the sense that it can only be supplied by bodies. Bodies are sovereign, and so bodies must be controlled. Fences must be erected, borders drawn, passports stamped, shots fired. The body cannot move freely, because in its very movement, in each gesture, is an expression of sovereign power that must be curbed, limited, starved, drained. The migrant worker, labour in it's purest form to date, an unspoiled resource.
We all suffer from the same general afflictions (identity, ambition, certainty, faith, reason), the difference being that some of us recognize it as such. But that's the worst kind of person, because pride in humility is by far the most heinous conceit. My hypocrisies are foolish, naive. The hypocrisies of the markets, however, are simply a necessary evil to be endured. Chin up lad, take it like a man. If you succeed, we'll let you crush a few that don't make it.
This is honourable and virtuous. An arrogance earned.
Better get back to work.
