Re: <documenta X><blast> rhythms<sidebar>

{ brad brace } (bbrace@wired.com)
Tue, 5 Aug 1997 13:40:12 -0700 (PDT)

THE ATOMIZING NATURE OF THE MARKETPLACE itself separates people from
responsibility for their own actions, allows them -- or even requires them
-- to detach themselves from the whole.

The great unanswered question is whether an economy in which almost
everyone was an owner might also eventually alter the irresponsible
behaviour engendered by capitalism itself. The capitalist process by its
nature, encourages infantile responses from every quarter, as people are
led to maximize self-interest and evade responsibility for the collateral
consequences of their activities, the damage to other people or society or
the natural environment. Even if people understand this dilemma, it is
very difficult for them to escape from it without suffering immediate
disadvantage in the market competition. (wg)

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