Continuing from this post wherein I said that conscious crapitalism is like New Age superstition, recall the following from Chapter 11 of my review of The Zero Marginal Cost Society.
[T]he
capitalist invisible hand [...] was itself a holdover from a
theological God in control to rational, self-interested individuals in
control. Lacking a systems view it replaced God with the invisible force
of a marginally less superstitious autonomous Market. Backed by
ecological and other scientific advances, it is being replaced with the
visible systems view of the global eco-social commons and redefining our
place within it.
Note
that the invisible hand of the market is still metaphysical in that it
must posit some supernatural agency that operates on its own if we but
focus on our self-interest, i.e. the market will take care of itself.
Moving into systems science and ecological consciousness thus
naturalizes this process, making previously supernatural agencies like
Gods or markets visible and understandable, and reconnecting us with
ourselves, our peers and our environments, but in a postmetaphysical
framework. This also applies to the sort of instrumental rationality
inherent to 'enclosure' of disciplines of study rather than to
interdisciplinary cross-sharing more indicative of Habermas'
collaborative, communicative action.
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