summer 22, reading the Dawn of Everything, re. p. 159 on sacred & private property:
maybe history has in fact not whitnessed a de-sacralization, but instead a total sacralization:
[transitioning over millenia] from the sacred being limited to special rituals to the abstract god’s sanctity: omnipresent locally and temporally, extending down to every man & thing through the sacred rational structure/institution called law –
thus replacing the functional, informal {property/safety/freedom}-{ensuring/producing} relationship of inter-personal trust with the alienating/particularizing individual connection to [quasi/de-facto ]monotheistically centralized law … culminating historically in the abstract sacral legal structure of money
– of course, single entities can no longer be sacred per se, but instead only relative to their connection to the one god – i.e. through their ‘value’…
(…and historically this relation spreads automatically, through commerce and rational governance, to everything and anything that exists in [mainstream culture’s consensus ]reality… and once it becomes global and total, it is no longer noticeable that our reality has this sacral, magical property.