I'll admit, I did a bit of digging and found the ReLOVEution manifesto (You might want to work on the name, the first few web hits are for a clothing brand). The philosopher who kept recurring to me while reading your text was, of all people, Mozi. I mean, love is in the name, and universal love is his catchphrase. Obviously you guys diverge in practice and application, he was more concerned with the exorbitant cost ritual was imposing on the people and the state, but on the low you guys are coming from the same place: love as the solution to our tumultuous relationship with capital.
How does your universal love work in our factionalized world? I'm doubtful that my love is identical to that of someone in sub-saharan africa, just as his is different from someone in japan. How are we meant to square these conflicting desires? Also, how does universal love replace our existing system? How does empathy for others organize people to build spaceships or even just work long, hot hours harvesting food in the central valley?
I'm guessing you would reject the label of someone rejecting capitalism because that implies your idea would still reside in the greater system of ownership.
I do really appreciate your highly unorthodox ideas and would love to engage further.
Overtime comment: Your post reminded me of this comic book in my middleschool that claimed to be a documentation of the development of civilization; one of the opening panels was the invention of the concept of property (via a fertile crescent subsistence farmer locking his wife in his house)
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I'll admit, I did a bit of digging and found the ReLOVEution manifesto (You might want to work on the name, the first few web hits are for a clothing brand). The philosopher who kept recurring to me while reading your text was, of all people, Mozi. I mean, love is in the name, and universal love is his catchphrase. Obviously you guys diverge in practice and application, he was more concerned with the exorbitant cost ritual was imposing on the people and the state, but on the low you guys are coming from the same place: love as the solution to our tumultuous relationship with capital.
How does your universal love work in our factionalized world? I'm doubtful that my love is identical to that of someone in sub-saharan africa, just as his is different from someone in japan. How are we meant to square these conflicting desires? Also, how does universal love replace our existing system? How does empathy for others organize people to build spaceships or even just work long, hot hours harvesting food in the central valley?
I'm guessing you would reject the label of someone rejecting capitalism because that implies your idea would still reside in the greater system of ownership. I do really appreciate your highly unorthodox ideas and would love to engage further.
Overtime comment: Your post reminded me of this comic book in my middleschool that claimed to be a documentation of the development of civilization; one of the opening panels was the invention of the concept of property (via a fertile crescent subsistence farmer locking his wife in his house)
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