Kolibri

maybe reading Das Kapital before bed isn't the best idea because I had way too many dreams about money and economics and stuff, when instead I wanted to dream about other things

We saw in a former chapter that the exchange of commodities implies contradictory and mutually exclusive conditions. The differentiation of commodities into commodities and money does not sweep away these inconsistencies, but develops a modus vivendi, a form in which they can exist side by side. This is generally the way in which real contradictions are reconciled. For instance, it is a contradiction to depict one body as constantly falling towards another, and as, at the same time, constantly flying away from it. The ellipse is a form of motion which, while allowing this contradiction to go on, at the same time reconciles it.

I kind of liked this part in chapter 3 section 2, but I never thought of contradictions like that, where things can just exist "side by side"

I saw this part in chapter 3, and I feel like it's relevant to what you quoted.

Hence an object may have a price without having value. The price in that case is imaginary, like certain quantities in mathematics. On the other hand, the imaginary price-form may sometimes conceal either a direct or indirect real value-relation; for instance, the price of uncultivated land, which is without value, because no human labour has been incorporated in it.

mainly it just kind of seems like Marx is building up to how private property came to be?

I'm kind of like happy the internet a thing, I was just thinking about how like. How lonelier things would be if the internet wasn't around. Just mainly because like irl, I have trouble speaking to people because speech issues, so like. At least like on here or like texting or wherever with text, I can communicate better, without like. people constantly misunderstanding what im saying or having a hard time understanding anything I say even when they get to know me. and it just very socially isolating a lot.

but if the internet wasn't around. I dunno what I do. Pen pal stuff? I dunno, but I was just thinking how like, life or this world, is a lot different when people have trouble understanding a thing I say, and just how very lonely that already kind of just been. also helpless feeling to at times when people literally cant understand what I say no matter how hard I try to articulate things. or like if a place is just a little too loud, then no one understands and I just have to be quiet until it gets quieter or go somewhere quieter. or like, just having to smile and give up what im saying.

just ugh, I dunno. but it's cool the internet a thing, despite it's numerous issues.

okay brain, please remember what you wanted me to do, because I know I was gonna do something only to just like, forget 5 seconds later. and now I'm just stuck wondering wtf it was that I was gonna do.

I was napping and like Marx entered my thoughts. I haven't read chapter 3 yet but im gonna to today. I wanted to yesterday but I was really sleepy.

anyways im like side tracking. but going to cryptocurrency, I generally know a lot of it is bs? but like is one of the reasons crypto doesn't work is because like. it doesn't really have a use-value? im not sure what use-value crypto has? or maybe it does somehow? but also it doesn't really work at like giving value to the abstract value of labor? or where like that abstract value of labor from one commodity can be equal to that to other forms of abstract labor in crypto? and it also doesn't work because like money like the dollar already does that better and is like social agreed, I think? I dunno I'm confused thinking about it. also does crypto even have much labor behind it at all besides just running machines on their own and letting machines do the work, ignoring electricity? there doesn't really seem to be much labor behind crypto at all? and if its a commodity, there should be some form of labor behind it right?

I don't know why I thought about crypto when napping, but I was just wondering about why it doesn't work, from like thinking about stuff like commodities and labor and stuff.

I was not expecting Marx to randomly cite a bible passage

that would be nice to ride on, just like staring out towards all those pretty plants

the petals were kind of like long, a little narrow? I don't really remember much of the shape and like my memory kind of hazey now, but I do remember more so the colors. like a bright light/kind of neon, kind of blue on the sides/outside, and near the base and like the inside, it was a dark bright blue but with darker deeper hues of blue. and there were a lot of petals and stuff. It's kind of hard to put into words, but really pretty. I really wish I could paint.

and that sounds really cool! and like a nice way to deal with anxious thoughts at night. and sunflowers are really great! I remember a few years I planted this one sunflower at my mom's that had like really deep red hues near the base/inside, along with the yellows. and it like grew very tall, taller than me. and gardening like pretty fun! I wish I could do it more, but I can't because either all the insects eat them, or the birds or the rabbits. like I remember one time waking up to like most of my plants just gone.