Cultural Activism, Post Capitalism & Kenotic Anarchy

Why do anything?
Why do business?
On Kenosis Transport Services
Cultural Activism
What’s the best way to do business?

Why do anything?
Kenotic Anarchy
If you love, it entails two things:
Martyrdom
Anarchy
Anarchy-as-kenotic (& kenosis-as-anarchic)
‘Kenosis’ – literally, ‘self-emptying’; unselfcentredness.

Why do business?
Post-Capitalism
What’s the point of a business?
What is the most valuable/important thing a business can do?
To benefit the world (i.e. people, society, everything else) maximally.
Therefore, be oriented around this objective.

Kenosis Transport Services
Pick an enemy...
The taxi industry is exploitative, murderous, corrupt, etc.
Subversion...
Work out a way to destabilise it.
Buy taxi
Pay off taxi
Transfer ownership to the driver
Repeat.

Kenosis Transport Services
Practicalities:
Decentralised
Everyone involved is empowered (trust, stability)
Network organisation
Taxi bosses can’t identify an opponent.
Viral growth
Unstoppable cultural growth dynamic.

Cultural activism:
Culture as sign-networks
Everything is exchange (commodification)
Everything is communication (meaning)
Everything is in flux
Trip the right switch, & you get what you want.
i.e. commodify the right thing, and beneficial change happens...

What’s the best way to do business?
Post-Capitalism
Premise: the world as commodification:
Anything can be given in exchange.
Workers give time, consumers give money,
Capitalists give universals.
Commodify wisely, and maximise value income.

Capitalism...
Capitalistic efficiency:
Earn money without selling time
Replication
Economies of scale
Capitalistic pitfalls:
Priority mistake: maximise turnover no matter what.
Exploit anything (people, land, society) to achieve this.
Disregard one’s benefit/harm to the world.
Compete blinkeredly (self-oriented approach)

An alternative:
Priority shift: aim to benefit the world as much as possible
Ensure stability and growth (otherwise everyone suffers)
Don’t sell anything that isn’t extremely and uncontroversially beneficial.
Set up internal structures that benefit all concerned.
Empower anyone involved as much as possible.
Let people own their jobs, the means of production, the profits, and set them free from wage-slavery.
Make it self-stabilising
Minimise bureaucracy & work with trust relations that are self-generating.