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How college degrees and museum shows became just another purchase.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0510/050309_arts_twitchell.php
dawned on me today that 'commercialism' is of
equivalence in terms of a negative ideology in
the .US today as 'communism' may be elsewhere.
the negative aspects of unfettered commercialism,
running without checks and balances upon cultures
supposedly is the apotheosis of its successfulness,
appears more and more clearly to be the reigning,
maladaptive, assumption that is beyond question
about its rightness, goodness, and inherent truth
as a structure by which ideas and things organize.
'capital' and 'capitalism' (economic) seem to be
magnets for focuses of ill effects, an even greater
abstraction which also has some functional truths
about how things work: whereas commercialism would
seem to be more like a marketing strategy gone awry.
that is:
commercialism is to capitalism
as
communism is to socialism
i don't know enough to know the full extent of the
argument though it seems that the economic aspects
of capitalism have been fused with a social aspect
in commercialism, which is well off the mark of an
effective, appropriate, or even real social value.
i.e., about human beings and the planet and such.
whereas, counterpoint, the social ideals which may
be part of socialism where not effectively able to
translate into the economic planning of communism.
that that too had oppressive aspects that went in
one way or another, unacknowledged until faced-off
with another reality of events. some places, like
in North Korea, seem to struggle to keep the two
versions separated, and even capitalism's changes
in China seem to be influencing this area with a
changed reality by way of cellphone spaces, etc.
though, likewise, in the .US it almost seems to be
in an alternative, bubble-reality which is in some
kind of competition-of-the-Reals with the rest of
the world, not in terms of Empire as much as in
terms of empiricism (if taking things on the whole,
structural, less about personalities and more about
how systems are tectonically stuck and shifting and
need to find relations to figure out the new maps).
instead of disneyfication, the larger more solidified
value system held in common in the marketsplaces of
mindspace, time and place appears to be commercial-
in-nature. commercials, the advertised, advertising
ID, as a junction or juncture between worldviews.
all said before, probably in great detail, yet about
the main juxtaposition it seems to be rather clear:
the same 'outside-in' realization of the necessity
of changes in order to improve situations still is
what seems lacking in this fishbowl of a society,
where pay-to-play may be the only way to get ahead.
how else can the lack of communication of critical
global issues such as 'global warming' be disregarded
every single night by 'another weird' weather forecast
by trained (scientist!) meteorologists. or aberrant
social logic (lies) in terms of representing facts
in a 'free' society. or checks and balances in which
rules of order take the form of extended corporate
retreat with the boss having the keys to get home.
how else could the WTC rebuilding go on, as-is, in
such a boorish way, without some higher ideals or
reality transcending the momentary to reach for
a truth that cannot be conspired for, rather the
result of serving the right needs in the right way
at the pleasure of universal time and the necessary.
like other countries have created hybrids between
views in order to increase functioning or in some
way achieve integrations with various systems, it
would seem that the failings of the structures in
the .US today stem from its trying to conform an
economic worldview (capitalism) with an engineered
social agenda (commercialism) which does not work.
it may work for private needs, in moderation when
in balance with other things, but by itself, in-
itself, it is a train-wreck of an approach to a
shared worldview and a 'democratic' approach to
live-and-let-live, in some fundamental way or in
some assumption about commerce as culture, society.
this is not to say that the .US shares values of
other places in the same way or context, though
it is curious if the ideas of 'social-capital'
may not need to be more heartily invested in as
a strategy for a societal 'correction' so as to
adjust the reality to the rest of the world's
experience of it too. otherwise, it feels like
being caught behind a wall, Truman-Show-like,
in which to re-cognize the global issues or of
truths diminished locally is to act on beliefs
and not on support of those beliefs, an act of
faith that cannot be transcended though there
are others who may see it more clearly, the
condition in which others may exist, fogged,
enshrouded in unrealistic societal construct.
a nationalized commercial as its world view.
how to get to the larger, shared realities,
without some shared structures, shared facts,
shared truths, starting points- like with the
reality of architecture, building, and dirt-
or, in the case of universals, maybe whereupon
science and technology meet with culture in
infrastructures, and their design, both in
common (global/universal/cosmic) and unlike
(local/diverse/traditions). this culture is
hanging in the balance, what it is, where it
is, how it will be, if it can help transform
realities, and maybe could function as a new
language for cross-cultural communications,
to share cultural realities in a way that is
not about bombs and killing and death and of
destruction and misery, but about the arts,
about life, about sharing of ideas, dreams,
beauty, truth, and finding ways work as one.
even with different views and versions of
the details, though within the rubric of
commercialism it is simply not possible to
do, the assumptions are faulty in terms of
culture and society, and this needs to be
recognized, acknowledged. next, transcended.
in my private opinion. brian
How college degrees and museum shows became just another purchase.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0510/050309_arts_twitchell.php
dawned on me today that 'commercialism' is of
equivalence in terms of a negative ideology in
the .US today as 'communism' may be elsewhere.
the negative aspects of unfettered commercialism,
running without checks and balances upon cultures
supposedly is the apotheosis of its successfulness,
appears more and more clearly to be the reigning,
maladaptive, assumption that is beyond question
about its rightness, goodness, and inherent truth
as a structure by which ideas and things organize.
'capital' and 'capitalism' (economic) seem to be
magnets for focuses of ill effects, an even greater
abstraction which also has some functional truths
about how things work: whereas commercialism would
seem to be more like a marketing strategy gone awry.
that is:
commercialism is to capitalism
as
communism is to socialism
i don't know enough to know the full extent of the
argument though it seems that the economic aspects
of capitalism have been fused with a social aspect
in commercialism, which is well off the mark of an
effective, appropriate, or even real social value.
i.e., about human beings and the planet and such.
whereas, counterpoint, the social ideals which may
be part of socialism where not effectively able to
translate into the economic planning of communism.
that that too had oppressive aspects that went in
one way or another, unacknowledged until faced-off
with another reality of events. some places, like
in North Korea, seem to struggle to keep the two
versions separated, and even capitalism's changes
in China seem to be influencing this area with a
changed reality by way of cellphone spaces, etc.
though, likewise, in the .US it almost seems to be
in an alternative, bubble-reality which is in some
kind of competition-of-the-Reals with the rest of
the world, not in terms of Empire as much as in
terms of empiricism (if taking things on the whole,
structural, less about personalities and more about
how systems are tectonically stuck and shifting and
need to find relations to figure out the new maps).
instead of disneyfication, the larger more solidified
value system held in common in the marketsplaces of
mindspace, time and place appears to be commercial-
in-nature. commercials, the advertised, advertising
ID, as a junction or juncture between worldviews.
all said before, probably in great detail, yet about
the main juxtaposition it seems to be rather clear:
the same 'outside-in' realization of the necessity
of changes in order to improve situations still is
what seems lacking in this fishbowl of a society,
where pay-to-play may be the only way to get ahead.
how else can the lack of communication of critical
global issues such as 'global warming' be disregarded
every single night by 'another weird' weather forecast
by trained (scientist!) meteorologists. or aberrant
social logic (lies) in terms of representing facts
in a 'free' society. or checks and balances in which
rules of order take the form of extended corporate
retreat with the boss having the keys to get home.
how else could the WTC rebuilding go on, as-is, in
such a boorish way, without some higher ideals or
reality transcending the momentary to reach for
a truth that cannot be conspired for, rather the
result of serving the right needs in the right way
at the pleasure of universal time and the necessary.
like other countries have created hybrids between
views in order to increase functioning or in some
way achieve integrations with various systems, it
would seem that the failings of the structures in
the .US today stem from its trying to conform an
economic worldview (capitalism) with an engineered
social agenda (commercialism) which does not work.
it may work for private needs, in moderation when
in balance with other things, but by itself, in-
itself, it is a train-wreck of an approach to a
shared worldview and a 'democratic' approach to
live-and-let-live, in some fundamental way or in
some assumption about commerce as culture, society.
this is not to say that the .US shares values of
other places in the same way or context, though
it is curious if the ideas of 'social-capital'
may not need to be more heartily invested in as
a strategy for a societal 'correction' so as to
adjust the reality to the rest of the world's
experience of it too. otherwise, it feels like
being caught behind a wall, Truman-Show-like,
in which to re-cognize the global issues or of
truths diminished locally is to act on beliefs
and not on support of those beliefs, an act of
faith that cannot be transcended though there
are others who may see it more clearly, the
condition in which others may exist, fogged,
enshrouded in unrealistic societal construct.
a nationalized commercial as its world view.
how to get to the larger, shared realities,
without some shared structures, shared facts,
shared truths, starting points- like with the
reality of architecture, building, and dirt-
or, in the case of universals, maybe whereupon
science and technology meet with culture in
infrastructures, and their design, both in
common (global/universal/cosmic) and unlike
(local/diverse/traditions). this culture is
hanging in the balance, what it is, where it
is, how it will be, if it can help transform
realities, and maybe could function as a new
language for cross-cultural communications,
to share cultural realities in a way that is
not about bombs and killing and death and of
destruction and misery, but about the arts,
about life, about sharing of ideas, dreams,
beauty, truth, and finding ways work as one.
even with different views and versions of
the details, though within the rubric of
commercialism it is simply not possible to
do, the assumptions are faulty in terms of
culture and society, and this needs to be
recognized, acknowledged. next, transcended.
in my private opinion. brian