Throughout history human beings have developed several systems of representation: writing, algebra, musical notation, double entry accounting.
Said systems allow the human spirit to understand that which is not tangible, and it is within the universe of representations that the most important decisions are made, where capital lives out its true life and where wealth is created and exchanged and what also ultimately determines poverty.
Who was the Haitian that said:
"Konstitisyon se papye, bayonet se fe?
"
The constitution is paper, a bayonet is iron]
Is there a better formula to negate the power of representation and console oneself with the illusion of the tangible?
What better way to affirm – as we have been doing for over two centuries now – the supremacy of the consummated act (de facto) over rights?
Unfortunately, one forgets that by negating representation we negate rights and wealth to 5/6ths of humanity.
Without representation the poor possess things but not property rights, they have dwellings but are not owners, they have tools and skills, but not a business
Excerpt from an essay by Charles Lam from Austria
http://www.isil.org/news/2002-essays/charles-lam-essay.html
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