10.12.2006

Long Accounting

...I'd start the Long Accounting movement to run far-sighted cost-benefit analyses for corporate entities; to tell them in the beigest terms to draft empathetic, ecologically-minded, egalitarian charters. On our part, any emotional appeals, or appeals to virtue, would be discarded in favor of the advancement of a simple factual proposition: that the attainment of the greatest sustainable density of the most affluent over the widest demilitarized area ensures the highest potential profit for any given corporate entity over significant extents of time. All non-essential resources, the thinking would go, should accordingly be diverted into efforts to prepare this fruitful field.

The successful implementation thereof would inevitably result in a near-instantaneous reallocation of resource and value so as to create classless masses of free and sensible consumers, their conflicts enacted in one benign ceremony or another. Impersonal, massive entities--the surviving corporates--would provide a mute, self-sustaining infrastructure, a skeleton for the spanning human community.

One thing: the place of the creator in such a society--in any truly harmonious society--would naturally be to mar that harmony at key intervals, so that the rest could pull themselves tight together once more to fix the failure.

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