You are Part of It

Human boundaries that form the definition of any collective social structure are dependent on the humans who create them. These entities can have any attributes humans can imagine and assign to those entities. The idea that economic entities should have similar rights as individual human economic actors is absurd. All group boundary formation is subservient to, and never equivalent with, the full status of an individual.

The current U.S. culture, economic, and political system produces an astounding amount of violence. At the local domestic level there is an epidemic of armed robbery, rape, and murder. At the national level we are engaging in offensive wars of choice and spending a tremendous amount of money on increases in military resources despite the fact that soon the U.S. will spend more on military resources than the rest of the world combined. The current U.S. culture, economic, and political system produces an astounding amount of violence.

Culture is the set of shared assumptions and agreements that form the operating environment for groups of people to participate cooperatively with each other in the pursuit of their individual and collective needs. Culture is the set of shared assumptions and agreements that form the operating environment for groups of people to participate cooperatively with each other in the pursuit of their individual and collective needs. Culture existed before civilization and it will exist after civilization. In fact culture is not an exclusively human attribute.

The expressed purpose of capitalism is the aggregation of capital for the owners of capital assets. This goal is not connected to a larger purpose or to biological imperitives but is left to the individual capital accumulator to determine. The level of human extra-biological power being directed via our economic system driven by a non specified purpose is stagering. I believe that the underlying purpose of capital accumulation is directed toward achieving elevated social rank and the exploitation of that rank for power within an individuals social milieu.