for: capitalism - heart of, adjacency - capitalism - self - othering - societal aspiration

adjacency between

• heart of capitalism
• self other dualism
• societal aspiration

• The narrative that underlies personal gain is the socially acquired belief in a self and other dualism.
• This is a deep psychological construct facilitated in early childhood development by what in Deep Humanity praxis is referred to as the mOTHER, the Most significant OTHER at the beginning of our journey in life.
• From that point onwards, social learning propels us to objectify the world, and in particular others. Self and other co-emerge from early childhood learning.
• As climate scientist Kevin Anderson notes, the elite 1%, responsible for an outsized ecological footprint are the result of the dominant capitalist narrative. It constitutes the social norm of "good" for most people. It is the societal aspiration from which 1% of the world population, approximately 80 million people, surface from the 8 billion as the elites in their respective field and are compensated through financial and material reward.
  • https://hyp.is/cyUb4p4rEe6LIpeSDrCcDQ/climateuncensored.com/1485-2/
• This societal aspiration aligns the majority of people to peer in the same direction of trying to win the game and bubble up to the 1% to indulge the rewards of a luxury lifestyle.
• It is this same winning that will produce the next generation of 1%. They are being groomed as we speak.
• Yet, their runaway success, and especially their reward is what can seal the fate of our civilization.
• It is this societal aspiration role of capitalism as the dominant narrative that is the root generator of the next 1% and must be mitigated if we are to address the root of inequality.