To the Right capital is a resource; to the Left socialism is a resource. But at the very start of Godard's Film Socialisme (2010) is the following exchange set against seawater.
Money is a public good.
Like water then?
Exactly.
This harks back to the 16th century and the establishment of the Royal Exchange in London () as a resource for the exchange of goods from the continent and further afield (the Silk route.)
Goods are themselves resourced from the natural world or basically the ultimate resource. IE, mountains, rivers, goatherds etc. Capital itself is not a resource since it is just a numerical system composed of money (used as exchange). The problem with the modern system is that for all its cleverness, it's illiterate in terms of the articulate reality. IE, the 3 dimensions of space and the 1 of time.
All that capital can do in the long term is to enable an uncertain reality (SR5) that is a type of hyper-real illusion built by machines. Machines are themselves numerical in that logic dictates that they become numerical as opposed to purely mechanical.
So, the logical pursuit of capital is a fait accompli of logical machines (in variable time, natch.)
The certain world (of the psyche) is the one of images that inspire humans and activity, that imbues the psyche with some feeling of meaning. The world of certainty is acrobatic and goes by feel and touch (articulate motion.)
For example, there are the layers of a rainforest canopy harbouring diverse beasts and flora. The articulate reality has dimensions (height, depth), while what one could call the purely technical reality doesn't.
According to Bolsonaro (or 'Bolshie'), the canopy can be cut to enable agribusiness, ie cattle grazing. This is technically true, but illiterate in terms of articulate motion (and meaning.)
The rainforest topsoil is very poor in nutrients and the texture of the crumbs is insufficient to retain nourishment. The reason a rainforest is so fertile is that there is constant growth and die-back or decay. There is a lot of heat that degrades matter swiftly and only the growth sustains it.
Once the canopy is gone, the topsoil is no longer a carbon store but a carbon emitter. Cow manure is insufficient to improve the situation and one is left with what is a fairly artificial system of intensive agriculture who's only justification is the numerical one (of technique or number, ie capital.)
In other words, the resource of technique or number (capital) is illusory in the articulate reality. That's an exttene example, but the point is however clever the capitalist is in terms of capitalist resource, the ultimate resource has to be articulate and not technical.
We live in a world where the real dimensions have gone out of fashion, where the ego looms large. Apart from that, an articulate reality is fertile and has a sexual etiquette that feeds the psyche.
By 'articulate', I mean mainly something that exists hierarchically (in layers or levels) and not simply in parts or in technical information. So, theoretically villages or schools or Indian camps all have that as a holistic trait (or, say, a summer camp for scouts.)
People being what they are, there is always some sexual etiquette going on, even between young ones. To attempt to stamp that out is detrimental to the psyche (development, sequence) and I guess understanding.
I happened to go to an Irish boarding school, (Quaker run Newtown, prev), and the current newslwtter contains this quote by a son of one of my teachers.
My parents married in 1966 and because they were both residential staff were assigned accommodation in a flat at the top of the main house. Then when 55, 56 and 57 Newtown Buildings were bought and converted into girls' dormitories, my parents moved into number 57. And that is the house that I was born into. Apparently, there was some excitement in the school when I came along because everyone got a half day to mark the occasion. At least, that is how it's been related to me and that half-day likely remains my greatest contribution to school life..
The hallway of the main house was always humming with activity as the office was on the ground floor. There was also a junior girls' common room. There were always pupils sitting on the big black leather settee and sliding down the banisters when no one was looking..
My earliest memories are extraordinarily happy ones, and while so many of the people who populate them are now gone, I remain grateful to them. (Christopher McKevitt)
The fact that people are being born on campus instils an articulate sexual tendencjy that is pretty obvious. The physical reality is articulate as opposed to being purely technical.
This instils psyche, and the spiritual sensation of Newtown to Christopher is obvious from his quote. To think of schools as purely technical institutions is to miss the point that the reality we inhabit is one of dimensions (not mental information or numbers.)
Because numbers are so sophisticated and accurate and convincing, the fundamental reality is mislaid (pun intentional.)
This applies to DNA (prev.) The neutralising trend in modern material reality is the diminution of physical or articulate differences (men, women, age, race) in favour of the machine (of capital or number.)
This could be likened to the neutral zone in sex as in Godard's films such as Weekend or Goodbye to Language.