SPLURGE ON DAVID HARVEY'S 'SPACE AS A KEY WORD'
Capitalist thought and process is merely the conjunction of apparent rights and political bureaucracy juxtaposed against the ambition and outcome of economic profit. In its purest form, it is a process, or system of micro processes engaged in detailing the actual event of mercantism, economic growth and ultimately profit.
Inaction or non-adherement to this process creates a default reaction. Exclusion or segregation. Social, economic, and physical.
Social exclusion is the learned limitation of human psyche/ we accept (ironically) that a/the reaction to one losing a job, or being forced – physical exclusion - from their domicile or habitation due to non-adherement to/of the RULES is a social displacement. Please move down the ladder. YOU are no longer equal to US.
Economic exclusion is the default reaction of non-payment, debt accumulation, and credit ADDICTION. We must complete the micro capitalist processes of utility bill payments, minor loan repayments and credit card payments, to even be considered WORTHY of reaching the absurd next stage of further debt accumulation, i.e qualifying for a mortgage, owning several credit cards , and major loans. Again, non-adherement to these processes equals exclusion. Inability to borrow, inability to create accounts with other Lenders, inability to purchase, and of course the possible removal of fixed assets. House, belongings and vehicles.
Physical exclusion can be described as the displacement from habitation, the actual physical displacement of losing your job. Removed from one social/physical setting to placed in another. Jobcentre. This in itself comes with its own SOCIAL stigma, and therefore exclusion.
Culture, tradition, revolution....REVOLUTION.
The act of it is in itself is a social wounding. We are taught to resist(ironically), the urges of the rebel. Engrained into out psyches, a profound melodrama of tiskness to those that grow their hair long, or those that adorn their flesh with rings and ink. But the idea of revolution within society is not born through physical change, but through economic rebellion, or social fragmentation is even still seen as too extreme for social integration.
We must act now to prevent a total social and economic stagnation of consumerist ideology and capitalist processes. The drama of unwinding the process exists in the foetal eccentricities of the activist.
As Harvey dictates in his speech The Urban Roots of the Fiscal Crisis , changing capitalist thought through the mind of the activist is the only way we can even ever consider reforming political and economic thought. REVOLUTION. re·volt
re·volt [ri vṓlt]
v (past and past participle re·volt·ed, present participle re·volt·ing, 3rd person present singular re·volts)
1. vi rebel against state: to try to overthrow an existing government
2. vi defy authority: to resist authority or rules
3. vti feel disgust: to feel disgust or repulsion, or cause somebody to feel disgust or repulsion
n (plural re·volts)
1. uprising against government: an uprising that attempts to overthrow a government
2. defiance of authority: a protest against authority or rules
[Mid-16th century. Via French <>
The concept of revolution in my methodology is not of a physical(yet) act of obscene revulsion, it is however a foetal thought borne in the context of conceptualist thought, and approach to a situation ie. The architecture of survival. Economic, physical, social and cultural.
sur·viv·al
sur·viv·al [sər vv'l]
(plural sur·viv·als)
n
1. staying alive: the fact of remaining alive or in existence, especially after facing life-threatening danger, or of continuing in a present position or office
The doctor said she had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.
fighting for her political survival
2. something from past: a custom, idea, or belief that remains when other similar things have been lost or forgotten
To survive it must change. Capitalist thought must change if it/we is/are to survive. Perhaps no longer as capitalism but as a form borne through teachings of capitalist and communist imperfection, and the amalgamation of these two failed political reforms. Taking what we have learnt from these failed practices, and re-writing the syntax from which the inherent problems are borne.
Firstly we must comprehend that equality across all human life is impossible. more to follow...
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