Gordon Rae(@socialtechno), You might find yourself interested to learn your ways of looking at the old school, capital value, are not to far off from the great social science master, comparable to an Einstein of Economic Sociology, the Vienna Law School Professor, Ludwig Vo Mises! Dr. Mises, was the chief Laissez Faire liberal social philosopher of the world,from the Great War(WW I) era-the 2000s! The enemy was political capital, insiders’ monopoly cartels, blocking real social value! They wanted no competition from the progressive accumulating formations of diversifying bourgeois entrepreneurs’ social progress!

Just had a chance to finally read Janet Parkinson’s latest post on this subject – it was to me the stand-out concept of our recent Patchwork Elephent conference, but she has pushed her ideas further – in essence, she argues that “The future is here, i…

Social Objects are things that co-ordinate human activities. If you’re not a Marxist, they’re a less ideological way of talking about Ideology with a capital I – or should that be Das Kapital Eye? You can learn a lot about societies by looking at what members of the society pay attention to For example, the values of individual freedom and personal autonomy were Social Objects that came out of the Protestant Reformation, inspired the Protestant Work Ethic, enlightenment and market capitalism, but they have somehow pushed us to a place where almost every person must accept restrictions on our freedoms so that corporations can create profit, which is the preferred source of money, which is the preferred measure of value.

Imagine if money helped us co-ordinate the way we pay attention to value, instead of the reverse. When the Social Objects change, the modes of society change.