User:Ssstephen/Reading/Debt

these two elements—the violence and the quantification—are intimately linked. in fact its almost impossible to find one without the other.

what about sudoku? sometimes this argument sounds like all numbers are bad. what about 93 or 418? what about 22x10 or DCLXVI. whats the difference between virtue and vice?

i remember thinking: 'suckers!' and so they were

omg dave you will always be a hero <3 (talking about social theorists pre 08)

in 1894, the greenbackers, who pushed for detatching the dollar from gold entirely to allow the government to spend freely on job-creation campaigns, invented the idea of the march on Washington—an idea that was to have endless resonance in US history. L. Frank Baum's book the wonderful Wizard of Oz, which appeared in 1900, is often held to be a parable for the populist campaign of William Jennings Bryan, who twice ran for president on the free silver platform.

alchemical transformation to gold as a form of escape or transcendence of the market. if we print our own money it is not to make ourselves rich but to destroy the system that keeps us all poor. fuck you, i dont want to play this game anymore. if we are to be purified we need to melt it all down, white noise, the generative matrix.

A man, being born, is a debt; by his own self he is born to Death, and only when he sacrifices does he redeem himself from Death.

From the Brahmanas. geld = guilt. primordial debt theory. living is a debt to the gods repayable through sacrifice (oxen) or tithe (gold and silver). sovereigns are gods representatives on earth and individuals have a debt to society, taxes emerge, fines and penalties, money and exchange.

even the english word "to pay" is originally derived from a word for "to pacify, appease"

peace means paying what you owe. and there is such a thing as hurting others so is debt essential? where does forgiveness come into this?

cattle as currency, particularly in ireland. also bondmaids ie slaves. people (especially women) and animals as property, and the property by which all other property should be measured. creeps.

exchange implies equality. in dealing with cosmic forces, this was simply assumed to be impossible from the start.

does the death of god lead to more exploitation from godlike humans? we are all humans and equal therefore is is concievable that you could owe me something repayable. so pay your debts, they are real and valid. forgiveness can be ignored, we are not gods.

the sumerian word amargi, the first recorded word for "freedom" in any known human language, literally means "return to mother"

melt the gold, materia prima, blah blah blah etc.

the only way of getting oneself from the debt [in the brahmanas, to the cosmos, ancestors, humanity] was not literally repaying debts, but rather showing that these debts do not exist because one is not in fact separate to begin with, and hence that the very notion of cancelling the debt and and achieving a separate, autonomous existence was ridiculous from the start.

in any real life situation, we have propensities that drive us in several different contradictory directions simultaneously. no one is more real than any other. the real question is which we take as the foundation of our humanity and therefore, make the basis of our civilisation.

what about accepting the contradiction as a basis for civilization? that we are all loving greedy calculating caring irrational passionless vulnerable uninterested scared ambitious broken beings. what society does this allow.