Sunday, April 10, 2022

The Bottom began as a complete state of disorganization.

The Bottom began as a complete state of disorganization. Everyone, every family, every small group were on their own until the formulation of a Top of authority or of Power. How does a multiplicity of Individuals organize themselves and manage to survive? Of course. the essentials are necessary: food, clothing, shelter, work, entertainment, and the 'means whereby' these commodities and activities can be accomplished. The 'means whereby' a 'Social' could be build and establihed had to include the participation of most everyone. Slowly, the 'Condition of Togetherness' became organized into a 'Mobile Social' with different Institutions. Of course, the basic 'Unity' was the 'Family'. Another basic Institution was an 'Economy'. A large 'Social' cannot exist without an Economy to help provide the above essentials and commodities. The Economy is only one part, albeit a very important part of a 'Mobile Social'. If we look at that closely, how was it that it became the most important part of the Social. Of course, the economy is the producing part of the Social. But, it wasn't just the producing part of the Social but the fact that products could never move without 'purchasing power' of Money and Money was cumulative. The bigger the Corporation, a legal Fiction, the more it produced. The more it produced, the richer the 'owners': and the owners are in the Economy. Now we have "have's and 'have-nots'. A Corporation is an artifically created 'Economic Person' that functions like a Human Person and is protected by Law and is legally defined as a 'Legal Fiction'. A 'Legal Fiction' that functions as a 'real person' and 'functions' like an 'Autocrat'. Have we created a Plutocracy? A Plutocrat in a Democracy? How does one 'control' a Plutocrat in a Democracy that legally defines the economic Corporation as a 'protected Legal Fiction?
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