Capitalism does not simply organize civilization. It is the…
Capitalism does not simply organize civilization. It is the mechanism behind all evolution. It's the mechanism for cultural evolution. It has always been the principle guiding all human development early humanity becoming slaved to grain agriculture.
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There was no period predating capitalism, there will never be a post-capitalism. Capitalism is material dynamic, defined most fundamentally as self-organizing arbitrage: the efficient elimination of inequilibrium through reorganization of finite resources.
Moment tribal man was forced into agriculture for the sake of increased population, at direct expense of health and well-being - or otherwise be forcibly replaced by those who did - humanity lost all claims to agency provided by much touted consciousness
Anyone confesses to human responsibility over environment, has ever uttered word "anthropocene", lives in atheistic hubris. The era is dominated by capitalism's generation & control over man, among many other beings, towards its own ends; Capitolocene
There is predictable arc to Modern history: Capitalism's thermodynamic arbitrage. As time progresses, increasingly complex self-organization is initiated to achieve goal of total universal equilibrium: Life is bootstrap to humans is bootstrap to AI.
Accelerationism is insight of Capitalism replacing our dead God; only escape is destruction of resources or bliss in AI oblivion. All other positions of philosophy or politics in this age—the twilight of humanity—are irrelevant. Thus Miya has spoken.