During that peculiar period in history, in which you could no longer own people, but you could still own their time because they had to sell it to you in order to be able to purchase their livelihood…
– Commie!
During that period, which began developing the technologies we rely on for our freedom to wax and wane as we move around each other realizing our freedom, our society was still mimicking the structures of level 1 physical dependency…
– Commie!
We need to understand the imaginary revolution of 2037 as a REAL one. That much we owe our ancestors. We should never take our egalitarian surplus society for granted. Never forget that if we would describe our way of life to people in, say, 2025, they would not understand us…
– Commie!
More generally, the entanglement of the real and the imaginary is, I think, the watershed moment of our civilization, but it does not relieve us of the duty to try to imagine how the people in that period lived and thought…
– Commie!
It is indeed hard to imagine pre-civilization, where they used, according to archaeologists, a crude unitary valuation function that did not capture their value of values. But we like a good challenge and we have enough idle processing power to do it…