[ssf] It's getting late...

[Dan]

It's getting late.  The syllogism of capital is beginning to whisper in 
my ear...

1. Markets are nature - we have to release the power of markets, strip 
away the barriers to its natural functioning

As in:

"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr.  Beale, and I 
won't have it, is that clear?! You think you have merely stopped a 
business deal -- that is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of 
dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back.  It is ebb 
and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance! You are an old man 
who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.  There are no nations! There 
are no peoples!...  There is only one holistic system of systems, one 
vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national 
dominion of dollars! Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars!, 
Reichmarks, rubles, rin, pounds and shekels! It is the international 
system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet! 
That is the natural order of things today! That is the atomic, subatomic 
and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the 
primal forces of nature, and you will atone!"

(from Network - 1976.  Perhaps we should have a film showing for this, 
if no-one's seen it.  As long as we pay the company...)

2. "When a person is under the impersonal coercion of Nature, we say 
that he is free." (Spencer)

3. Therefore, we are all free under one market.  And the more our lives 
are commodified, the freer we will become.  Ain't it a beautiful vision?

See ya

Dan