25 July

Many people tell me that ‘capitalism’ is the cause of our many problems in the world. Others think it’s communism, or authoritarianism. Did you know none of the -isms are even real? All societies are functionally equivalent, and run on one thing alone? Status. All societies are social, because humans are social animals. Status is the currency of all human life, because status gives you your identity, as a social animal. Without status you are literally nobody. If you don’t believe me, here’s a fact for the day. There is no, after more than a century, agreed definition of what capitalism even is. Or any of the -isms. That’s because none of them are real. They’re team names in status battles, branding for different teams. Russia and China have never been run by ‘communism’, the West never by ‘capitalism’, and what’s happening the US right now is not ‘authoritarianism’. It’s all just status games, with differemt names for the teams.