Capitalism’s ignorance-and-freedom assumptions stem from pre-communication-era local life.

Evidence

The notion that ignorance and freedom are essential characteristics of capitalism is rooted in the conditions of life before the advent of modern systems of communication and transportation, let alone global digital networks, the internet, or the ubiquitous computational, sensate, actuating architectures of Big Other. Until the last few moments of the human story, life was necessarily local, and the “whole” was necessarily invisible to the “part.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1573

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism’s rupture with older social forms makes their myths undecipherable to us — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1674; Hayek grounded freedom in the inevitability of ignorance — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 221

Broader Connections

• Hayek grounded freedom in the inevitability of ignorance #expands (0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 221
• Capitalism’s rupture with older social forms makes their myths undecipherable to us #complicates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1674