Friday, December 6, 2019

Why common good capitalism?


Yeah, just the common good, thanks. I don't need it several times removed.

The common good is a more concrete reality than the GDP or the Stock Market.

GDP and the Stock Market have become little more than superstitious time delay/expiry dated advance lotteries that conservatives idolize a hundred times more than ancient Aztecs running their lives to complex astrological patterns. Like the enlightened shamans ruling the lower class, the conservatives warn that if any of this very complex system is ever undone (don't sign those climate pacts!) it will spell absolute ruin.

The Pope recognizing like a sane person that there exists complex marriage situations, with a view towards regularizing and reconciling - screw that! Time to get on board with the Restoration bitches! Oh what's that? Change the economy? You naive little underling! The economy is vast and complex the likes of which you hardly understand! Remove one thread and the whole thing will spell ruin for all!

LOL

The common good is also more specific and local in its end, whereas the others uproot and homogenize.

The common good is also more lasting, definitive, stable, whereas the others can disappear tomorrow, are amorphous from day to day, and are ever volatile, like those whimsical pagan gods who one day are benevolent and the next day demand your children's blood.

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