—Umberto Eco
—Umberto Eco
To challenge the primacy of property, we must democratize production, decommodify life’s essentials, and defend the commons.
Democratize the economy, decommodify the foundations of life, defend the commons.
We have the resources and capabilities today to guarantee material security and the fundamentals of a good life for everyone on earth. There is no need to wait for some imagined technological liberation nor justification for doing so.
Co-opting the language and posture of grievance is how members of a privileged class express their belief that the way they live shouldn't have to change, that their opponents are hypocrites and perhaps even the real oppressors.
They see themselves as the ones holding true to the ideals in which their opponents only profess to believe.
All culture wars are at bottom about the same thing: the desperate efforts of the privileged, in an ever-pluralizing America, to cling by their nails to the perquisites of what they'd thought was once their exclusive domain.
A scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephant— No! No! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone— (Dear me! I am not certain quite That even now I’ve got it right.) Howe’er it was, he got his trunk Entangled in the telephunk; The more he tried to get it free, The louder buzzed the telephee— (I fear I’d better drop the song Of elephop and telephong!)