[lbo-talk] agricultural productivity

[James Heartfield]

Ted, that's the trouble with your category Mind: it is everything. Football is mind, eating a good meal is mind the development of the productive forces is mind. Nothing remains from the all-conquering imperialism of mind. But at just the moment that you had subsumed everything into the void of mind, then, you, Ted, snap back into the role of policeman excluding those things that you think are unworthy of mind. So when I say that you cannot prescribe the content of freedom, you say, oh no, that's not freedom, freedom is the development of mind.

Your analytic category mind is no help to anyone. It is the universal spanner so big it can take any sizes of nut, but getting a grip on none. This is the philosophical equivalent of neo-classical economics, with its assumption that whatever the market outcome is, is the right one. As Buckminster Fuller said, a man with a hammer sees a world full of nails. If everything is the development of mind, there is nothing left for us to do, but to watch the great mind unfurl, and hope that we be called on to play some minor role manifesting its great self-transcendence.