Dear Reader,
Reproduced below is one of Karl Seldon’s most characteristic
characterizations of the cognitive psychohistorical causal core of modern human history [E.D.
edits applied] --
“As Marx was so
often wont to note, modern, “capital-relation”-centered society, is the form of
society ‘‘‘founded on [the] exchange-value’’’, and, as we so often note, Marx’s
‘‘‘elementary or accidental
form of [commodity-]value’’’ is the uttermost root thereof, the uttermost root of ‘‘‘the
exchange-value’’’, and of all of its profound psychohistorical consequences.
That ‘‘‘elementary
form of value’’’
is, we hold, the, mostly-unconscious,
ideological core paradigm of the ‘Modern «Mentalité» entire, of the ‘Modern Human Phenome’:
the equal valuation of pairs of qualitatively different objects/«arithmoi» as if
by “pure quantity”
alone -- by means of a third
«arithmos» of [money-]objects, expressing a qualitative common denominator for
that pair of
otherwise disparate objects, one whose common character [presently
socially-necessary abstract labor-time cost of reproduction] is typically unconscious for its users, inculcating, in
the cognitive neuro-plasticity of those users, the semblance of a “purely quantitative” praxis.
The Modern
World -- the world of the capital-relation, of the alienated labor relation
[the wage-labor-relation] -- with all of its
pluses and minuses, vis-a-vis the previous incarnations of collective humanity, and
of the ‘human phenome’, stems from this!”
-- a characterization which I feel to be eminently worthy of your deepest consideration.
For more
information regarding these
Seldonian insights, please see --
www.dialectics.info
For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ – as well as illustrated
books by the F.E.D. Press, see --
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH
¡ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];
Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;
Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;
Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.
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