Let a Thousand Olive Trees Bloom in a dumpster
Capital does not have a citizenship. As a citizen it would foremost make a stand for Public Good over Private Profit. Lacking that commitment it owes alliegience to noone but to itself. It blooms for itself.
Listen. I didn't say Public Good instead of Private Profit. It's not an Either Or Logic. It's AND Logic. In a context of Public Good Capital constituting itself as citizen can be considered a kind of glue that binds our shared existence to build a better future.
Instead what we got is a bag of glue to sniff alone in a dumpster.
The above I wrote as a comment after Harry's "Let a thousand olive trees bloom" pointer to
Limited Inc. It's is a continuation of my thinking of Bloggers Making Money. The AND Logic. Blogs AND Money and not OR. Yet I believe Blogs are moving more towards building a grand feel good justification of Blogs AND Money without any thoughts of Public Good and Citizenship if such a thing can be even thought of on the Net.
Netizen, Blogzenship, Citblogyen and any other words describing such a thing will be snatched soon by marketers as unique search strings on Google so even if a new conversation is possible with new vocabulary it will quickly be consumed by the marketers and sold back to us for traffic generation.
New conversation is possible. We might begin by adopting an already existing traditions and reuse the old vocabulary by giving it a new context.
