1. The individual is man the citizen, taxpayer, consumer and economic unit.
2. The individual is the human animal brought to legibility by the State and the Corporation.
4. Men are expected, through coercion or enticement, to identify with the numbers they have been assigned (Social Security, bank accounts, etc); to use the acceptable platforms of expression (elections; Facebook; etc); and to speak of themselves in officially registered categories (Democrat/Republican, Male/Female/Fluid, Black/White etc). The State protects and demands observance of these categories of individual for its own measures of population oversight, taxation and control, but as well to improve access to a human population by the sales and marketing forces of the corporate class.
2. The individual is the human animal brought to legibility by the State and the Corporation.
4. Men are expected, through coercion or enticement, to identify with the numbers they have been assigned (Social Security, bank accounts, etc); to use the acceptable platforms of expression (elections; Facebook; etc); and to speak of themselves in officially registered categories (Democrat/Republican, Male/Female/Fluid, Black/White etc). The State protects and demands observance of these categories of individual for its own measures of population oversight, taxation and control, but as well to improve access to a human population by the sales and marketing forces of the corporate class.
11. The feeling of oneself as an individual is a symptom, not a truth.
19. The task of the State and Corporation is to make legible or undermine the hidden transcripts that maintain the local community, small group and family: to release man the individual from the bondage of hidden transcripts.
29. Agriculture combines with advances in the technologies of transportation and communication to challenge the small group, the local community and the family (see James C. Scott). Guided by these technologies small groups generate surpluses (caloric and later fiat) and, by their own internal growth in numbers, threaten themselves from within; while simultaneously they are stretched apart through outside trade. They now speak beyond the global and of Martian travel — the spreading of human units of economy beyond the earth.
34. The global community/economy is a crowd formation (see Canetti). As a crowd formation it must be always on the increase or risk its dissipation.
35. The global community/economy is a crowd made up of individuals, not local communities, small groups or families. The local community, small group or family slows global crowd growth — as keepers of hidden transcripts they exist outside State and Corporate purview.
49. The interest rate is used to stoke or slow global crowd growth over time to maintain its functioning and satisfy the crowd's debt holders.
53. The velocity of money is a measure of the global crowd's unity and sustainability as a crowd.
57. Money moves with a faster velocity between individuals than between families and small groups.
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