• nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    201·
    3 days ago

    Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead."

    - Disco Elysium

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I really need to sit down and write out my full thoughts on this. I’ve been obsessed with Conway’s Law for years. I think it applies very broadly.

    [O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

    — Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

    Capitalism and its seeming totality are related to this. Because we are forced to live under capitalism, all our efforts end up reproducing it. That’s why anarachy is the only real solution. Its the only system that proposes radically uprooting the way we live first (bottom up) and then letting the high level organization emerge from that new mode of living.

    All other forms propose the impossible idea that a distributed, fully realized democracy can be forced into existence using top-down controls. But, to modify an old saying, while the master’s tools have many uses, we cannot use the plantation schematics to build a commune.

    • Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      2 days ago

      100%

      It’s the ocean we swim in, it’s all we know. We, in general, think we’re being different by swimming in a different direction but we’re still ultimately aquatic. We gotta grow legs and evolve.

      I had a very similar realization in a smaller microcosm shortly after my son was born, I knew I wanted to parent differently than my parents had done but I didn’t know how and was just replicating what they did in different ways. It took that realization and subsequent reeducation/complete shift in view what parenting even is and how it can look.