Tag: Commons
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Stealing Commons From the Goose
The Flawed Script: A Goose, a Common, and the Spectral Other The legal meat-grinder churns, a bio-mechanical Moloch. It devours the petty thief, the one who snatches the feathered signifier, the goose, from the commons – the free-floating, pre-symbolic Real. This desperate act, a twitch in the fabric of the social order, is punished with…
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Tragedy of the Commons
The Privatization Racket: https://ramurrio.medium.com/games-without-frontiers-980abb60b1e7 They call it the Tragedy of the Commons, man, a cosmic downer flick projected on the greasy screen of reality. Garrett Hardin, that square with a heart full of barbed wire, spins this yarn about how people, us rubes, can’t be trusted with the good stuff – the land, the water, the air, even. We’d just suck it dry, turn it into a…