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An old idea hatched with a friend was the realisation that capitalism was secretly designed to make you unhappy bcause if you were happy then you would not shop or work and th economy would collapse. I realise today that really a lot of hat has been argued so far is a version of that. Human Societies become self serving at the expensive of the human collective they are supposed to represent because people either come to rely upon the identity or power that they gain through heirachy within these societies, or in an economy the livelihood that it affords them.

The economic collapse is the greatest Christmas present we could be given because it relieves us of much of the burden of work. According to one tabloid large numbers of people are taking an unprecidented 1 month holiday this Christmas - why not take more there is no longer any ork to do.

But the catch is not a reality it is just an unfortunate feature of the current economy that if you don't work then the whole distribtion system collapses too and no-one can receive even the essentials. Thus because we aren't working on making x-boxes and interior decorating we must starve. This is the problem that the new economic theory that surpasses the antequated capitalist system must solve.

The problem then can be reduced maybe entirely to "attachment". It is the attachment of ordinary people to extra-ordinary social organisation and status that is the ultimate problem maybe. A new economic theory must offer people satisfactions and rewards separate from what they do! So that the "doing" becomes a means and not an end, otherwise people keep on "doing" beyond utility and even to disutility.

Consider the growing requirement to be economical with resources. Despite talk to reduce, reuse and recycle we are also expected to buy more to keep the economy running? The economy has reached a point long ago where its "doing" is becoming disutility.

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On subject of old ideas. Harmonic Structuralism seems to be returning into favour. It was a means of objectively separating Nazism from Democracy. The "good" is the largest harmonic group. Nazis are limited by their opposition to certain minorities and neighbouring politics. They are good for their limited membership. Democracy is better etc etc

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Progress. Qualitatie and Quantitative progress. Was trying to think of any qualitative progress. Do we yet eat anything that was not discovered long ago? Well to date there are no artifiial foods - i.e. artificial foods are just cheap copies of wild foods. There are no man made tastes or foods yet. Entertainment is not new and nothing we have developed is qualitatively different from sitting around the fire hearing a well told story (if you have ever experienced complete absorption into narrative so that it is as good as real). Even in medicine we have been operating and giving medicinies all of history. Genetic modification has occured in farm animals, wheat and dogs so even this cutting edge of science is just new tools for old methods. Is there anything new?

If not maybe it is simply because man-kind has not changed. We still have 5 senses and the same brain. This very much supports my argument for seeing through the aura that surronds all things modern.

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OK signing off. Hopefully in the new year I can tie up the negative analysis and start to synthesise a full working positive hypothesis of life - I need to ... somewhere in all of this I've got to live! Merry Christmas