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This primitive accumulation plays approximately the same role in political economy as original sin does in theology. Adam bit the apple, and thereupon sin fell on the human race. Its origin is supposed to be explained when it is told as an anecdote about the past. Long, long ago there were two sorts of people; one, the diligent, intelligent and above all frugal elite; the other, lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living. The legend of theological original sin tells us certainly how man came to be condemned to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow; but the history of economical original sin reveals to us that there are people to whom this is by no means essential....In actual history, it is a notorious fact that conquest, enslavement, robbery, murder, in short, force, play the greatest part. In the tender annals of political economy, the idyllic reigns from time immemorial....As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.
-------------------------------------Karl Marx, Capital, vol. I.
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Money(fiat currency) will lose its head(value), just like its ideological sires, Monotheism and Divine Right Monarchy, and in a similar fashion. The more it is upheld through reforms and apologias stating it is best, the more we will witness its dissolution and debasement.
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The real is always, already measured. A hand to the ear, inflection of voice, widening or narrowing of eyes, and even a turned up nose, rationalizes.
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It is unconscionable we live conscious of our own death. We resent it through distraction.
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Ptolemaic man has yet to die. Cosmologies and Atheism were not enough. Even the relativity of space/time and nuclear uncertainty failed. Only the destruction of fiat currency will deliver the coup de grace. The destruction of a system of universal exchange value(money) will do more than an end of Cosmic and Atomic Centricity and Grand Signifiers. Ironically its saviours will hasten destruction through attempting to secure its value.
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