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>>11366396
>capital becomes the computer code-language we need to communicate in, and because that code needs to talk to itself, in a way

yup, exactly this. as zizek has it: the deadlock that forces an answer commits that answer to the very necessities that thwart it from the inside (for societies, the question is how do we guarantee civic order and cooperation between autonomous rational agents? and the answer for an America plagued by mass shootings every other 2 weeks is becoming increasingly dystopian)

> or to ward off computer-crash identity crises...


if you had some kinda weird meta-ontological computer and you were like, "Computer, I wanna see what it looks like for a sapient species in a meaningless contingent thermodynamic universe to cope with the fact of this meaninglessness after the intrinsic evolutionary potential of their thought has made this conclusion inescapable for them?"... the answer would be capitalism.