Crime Against Humanity: Pensée Unique in Economics, 2

So the movie currently on the playbill outside the Circus Maximus inside which we are made to fight against one another is called “economics”? Good, let’s have a look.
The current “Word” that “wants it” is the “Market”, hence the “technical Word” of the moment is an “economic Word”. It has been aptly labelled “Pensée Unique in Economics”. It is “Unique” because it has achieved an enviable position. It is so enviable that the fact that it has achieved it, and that therefore it previously did not enjoy that position, has slipped out of our awareness. It is so much enviable that to put it in the right perspective I must begin its explaination from reality itself.

It has been said that reality is a synonym of agreement, and that things are real for the sole reason that we agree they are. But it is important to note that agreement has two levels. When we start to look at reality from the viewpoint that it consists of agreement, at first we run into the first level of agreement: liking. At this first level, we agree with things to the degree we like them: we like what we hear, we agree with it; we don’t like what we hear, we disagree with it. And maybe generally we agree or disagree accordingly with everything that has to do with it, too. But there is a second level of agreement beyond liking, underneath it; and if we continue to look at reality from the viewpoint of agreement we will run into that, too. At this second level, we agree with things whether we like them or not: we agree with the fact they do exist regardless of our liking them. We don’t like what we hear? We may disagree with it, but we nonetheless agree it has been said and we heard it. We dropped our ice cream? We’re certainly not happy about it but, though reluctantly, we agree it’s now there on the floor. And that’s also because should we dare to refuse to agree with that ice cream there on the floor we would find ourselves wearing a straitjacket shortly after, that such is the nature of the group agreement: something quite inclined to become a double−edged weapon, as we’re going to see.

Crime Against Humanity: Pensée Unique in Economics