"Cordell, Arthur: #ECOM - COMÉ" wrote:
>
> A community is about people. People perform many functions than just the
> one at hand.
[snip]
I think this is always important to keep in mind.
One especially important instance, according to my
hypothesis, is *laissez faire* capitalism. Its
supporters constitutte themselves as *communities*
organized around [around what? well, alas, around
the destruction of community for others, and, perhaps
unwittingly, in the end, for themselves...].
I am fairly confident that Bill Buckley Jr and his
"cronies" constitute among themselves just
as vital a community as the citizens of the
classical Greek polis constituted among
themselves, or "good guys", like the Wobblies, constituted
among themselves, etc.
The "problem", of course,
in the case of laissez-fairers et al.,
is [to be scientific, and use mathematical arcana:] that
the function over which they compute the
integral is not recursive, i.e., the set of
workers in the one case, and of slaves in
the other case, is not identical with
the set of entrepreneurs in the one
case, and citizens in the other.
So that there is a way in which the
salvation of Everyman on this earth is
prefigured, albeit in the form of
involuntary self-alienation,
in the oppressing classes (but also,
of course, often, when we've read a
message, we throw it away as no
longer worth keeping...).
"Yours in discourse...."
+\brad mccormick
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