Idea: Common culture is ever becoming less and less an engagement between people, but rather an interfacing of individuals with the abstraction of culture.
Implications: Value. Under the first condition, there is a value placed upon individuals: each individual is engaged with other individuals, and thus a rich and immediate connection between them. The second condition reduces individuals to the abstractions of the things they produce. Architects are reduced to the buildings they design. Contractors are nothing more than house-builders. There is so little enmeshing between people that they in a sense cease to mean anything to each other.
If people don't value each other, then why should they care whether the other survives or not?
The Economy and Empowerment
The Economy is the system which we interface with when we want to get things done. It's not access to people who have the ability to produce something, but rather the abstract and inaccessible system which, to most, magically produces capital for those that need it.
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