Picture a dollar bill. Ostensibly it's a means of exchange, the symbolic value of exchange whether Roman coins or later with the Royal Exchange in Tudor London (prev.)
Exchange has now given-way to a monetary system where money is spent but not paid for. The logic of this system.is only that it has a monetary logic that appeals to logically-inclined heads. Since money has no intrinsic value (unlike goods), the value is non-human. Let's call it Martian.
All modern politicians are non-human or Martian economists, spending money that does not exist and isn't paid for. Biden, Johnson, Bolsanero, Xi. The only exceptions might be Baerbock of the German Greens, or Marine le Pen of the French Rally, but neither seem destined for power.
Why do politicians become the same 'type'? Because they are attracted to logic and tend to be convinced by logical arguments, as opposed to balanced human objectives (health, happiness.)
Anything human is "four days, five days ago", whereas logical trains of thought have an abstract, egotistical value that never dies. The process is just the more obvious sign that we are entering a future of algorithm instead of human reality.
Human reality is inarguably of the body. As Anita Roddick of The Body Shop says,
The fashion industry wants to control you. And the way they do it is through your body. Once they control your body, theyy control your purse and the products you buy. It's a fantastic strategy and it's working.
The body is run by the (corporate) head, the language of which is monetary. The language of the body is balance. As noted previously, the illogical proportions have their own internal logic (the logic of desire - see prev O Henry and the old-style tenements.)
The language of the jungle is dank and furtive (see Lee Perry); the language of economics is dead and sterile. But since a jungle has its own power of recovery and certain physical dangers, it is not as logically viable as an economic system.
All this is a matter of fairly recent history - far less than 10,000 years, more like 200. But the 'accelerating future' (of Anisimov and the futurists) becomes more rapid owing to the speed of algorithmic 'thought' (information).
Has it occurred to anyone that China may be ahead of the West here, in that they can concentrate brains in a type of hydridisation with the machine?
They achieved on Mars in one-shot what took NASA decades of development and, as has previously been noted, space is the algorithmic frontier. Apart from that, we are living in the effects of the Chinese virus (originating in Wuhan province.)
The virus, as certain right-wing sectors have pointed-out, makes authoritarian rules much more universal. Could China have planned this algorithmically?
I'm not anti-Chinese; I'm anti a certain type of thought that gives credence to algorithms over human balance. As was previously noted, Minnesota University's Institute of the Environment is a world-leader in 'ecological economy', and they have determined that destabilising rough ecosystems (such as jungle) releases viruses that were hosted by the jungle inhabitants.
Balance is a physical phenomenon (of fertility and strength) but also one of psychic integration. Emma Raducanu, who's half-Chinese, was quoted as saying the ancient Chinese tradition of inner self- belief (as opposed to simple achievement) was very important to her.
Raducanu is a good example of a very balanced individual, the very balance that modern China has lost to Communist misrule. A land of logic and brain cannot have the language of the antagonistic body that is psychically integrated. It can only have a sterile language of advanced boredom - or advance into boredom. The land of ones ones and zeros - the duo-tone if Jirel Meets Magic (prev.)
So this is not bigotry against China since, after all, they are doing much the same as we are, maybe better! It's just stating visible facts anyone can see, and asking questions.
The jungle is strong - eternal. The Martian arena of non-human value is weak and cannot outlast the strength of the jungle. Coming to terms with that equation calls for balance, nimble footwork in places of power on Mother Earth well away from the domain of boredom occupied by the white man's head (Musk &Co) and its oriental counterpart.
Modern techniques work, as has been pointed-out previously. But technique is not everything; there's also balance. Without the balance of a jungle (or even a tennis court), the vigor of physical reality is no longer there, and the techniques are always treating symptoms of weak, destabilised systems. Added to that is loss of inner self- belief, psychic disintegration.
