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seeing how seemless the transition from “mercantilism” to “capitalism” is, both being concepts/abstractions/arbitrary periodizations after the fact and not real “stages” or things, and how the world-economy developed since the colonization of the americas, globalization etc (not to mention previous civilizations or empires etc), it’s not inconceivable to imagine a near future that is not “capitalist” yet not foreign to us or not disconnected from what we currently know and live.

then some critiques will no longer apply, others still might, same for courses of action or whatever. capitalism is not the “source of all evil”, it might even be imagined (not saying it is, but imagine if it was) as a cosmetic detail or appearance of a larger more encompassing peoblematic, or one of many. some of this is widely discussed to be considered trite, multiple entangled axis of opression and anti-civ and whatnot.

what i want to emphasize is how interesting it is instead to imagine how you’d like to live your life in the now, how to adapt or what to change, since the changes around can be both gradual big path dependent trends, as well as sudden events and situations at different scales.
i dunno what was my point. the end? maybe the end is just an arbitrary point on an infinite line or circle.
and you are a cute fun little dot, and some dots are big and boring. uhh

something something fall of berlin wall ussr empires mayan aztec uhh imagen the end of rock and roll or punk and how postpunk and post rock is like different but not that different