tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post4092915595571762233..comments2024-03-18T16:29:17.369-07:00Comments on Inverted Alchemy: An Integral Economy: An Inquiry into Human Nature and the Cost of the Wealth of NationsDavid Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-91029641041990005712012-06-10T23:53:43.592-07:002012-06-10T23:53:43.592-07:00(trusting this pertains more directly…)
In light ...(trusting this pertains more directly…)<br /><br />In light of one of Bucky’s more succinct definitions of wealth, “Wealth is know-how”, we could read ‘wealth’ where ‘power’ is written in Hannah Arendt‘s lecture, Reflections on Violence: <br /><br />“…it is not enough to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course its end is the disappearance of power. This implies that it is not correct to say that the opposite of violence is nonviolence: to speak of nonviolent power is actually redundant. Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.”<br /><br />Recourse to violence results where ‘know-how’, or optionality, is insufficient to achieve an assumed end without it. The longer an adopted ‘internal logic’ operates, such as in Smith’s adherents, the greater the incidence of external disconfirmations. Long views still indicate that self defeat is predicated on other defeat. Whereas (to paraphrase Fuller) ultimate private success depends on universal success.Kerry Duganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14846127021780093924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-44559402087767205422012-06-10T13:17:11.195-07:002012-06-10T13:17:11.195-07:00David,
Last night I began to write about coherenc...David,<br /><br />Last night I began to write about coherence and dissonance in a discussion of money in politics. I like that I was also considering human futures when we ‘don’t know from Adam’ Smith, addressing Phase, via incrementalism, imagining recovery from collective tailspins induced by too long at stall speeds, hidden by artificial momentums. <br /><br />From late last night:<br /><br />“Once it is realized, from within the current structures, that the long term lucrative depends on integrating multiple bottom lines [on integral accounting], in opening the processes of influence to the relevance of greater common good(s), we may actually begin to see transitions to forms of political responsibility which tend inherently to be more unifying than divisive.”<br /><br />“The accommodation of effectively inclusive interests will need to be shown to also hold greater fiscal promise than goals defined by mere market-state profitability. In other words, the deadlock of the stranglehold of money on politics requires an aikido in terms of radically accepting the state of affairs and turning it into what else it can become. Otherwise, further divisions, and their polarizing/centralizing of power, remain the norm.”<br /><br /> “…I look for alternative and intermediary steps to undo undue influence. …corporations, being one of our main institutional forms, are entitled to a certain voice in policy in accord with their responsibility toward the whole of the nested societies which they're embedded in. A reciprocity of endorsement isn't necessarily unhealthy either. When sectors refrain from locking interests into narrow reciprocity, and commit to non-privileging strategies (something we haven't seen yet) the legislation of separations [church/state, public/private] may no longer apply. True separations seem to depend on that differentiation of motivation and of behavior. Until then, as Senator Dick Lugar told me in '91, 'we can no longer rely on morality. So we need the rule of law'. Today I'm positing a Second Morality, one coming after the parental interventions of legislation.”Kerry Duganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14846127021780093924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-45426865633645093232012-06-10T03:38:35.528-07:002012-06-10T03:38:35.528-07:00bravo, David - is it me, or does your voice become...bravo, David - is it me, or does your voice become more clear with each new post?<br /><br />good luck tomorrow and I would definitely like to have access to the manuscript of your presentation. I especially look forward to sharing Buckminster Fuller inspirations. I keep running into more and more references to his work, happily so.Brett Bournenoreply@blogger.com