Teach a man to fish

Teach a man that the accumulation of capital is the only unalloyed good, and he'll objectify everything and everyone.

And being the only unalloyed good, the accumulation of capital will blind him to the deeper laws of survival; he won't acknowledge that when you overfish, the business of fishing will become untenable.

Capitalism is ecologically dysfunctional. Capitalism is a pathological expression of insanity. That's exactly what Radical Nomos is - it is a preference to live in delusion over and against living in reality.

Physis, Nomos, and the Demagogue

It occurs to me that demagogues like Trump, who arise out of failed or ailing democracies, invoke the message of a return to Physis, to reality. They say "The state of our society is a mess, follow me and I can return us to the state we all long for, to the way things ought to be." They call out Radical Nomos for its faults. They appeal to those weary from the spell of Radical Nomos, those who know that this is not how things are supposed to be. These poor souls know that there is a higher law that should be in place to make the madness of the anthropocentric world thin and disappear, but they do not know what to name it. They have lived their whole lives in Radical Nomos and have no idea what Nomos in its proper employment looks like.

Along comes the demagogue to prey upon this feeling, this longing for something more. They promise to break the spell of Radical Nomos, but the demagogues themselves are under that spell themselves and hollowed by greed and lust for power. And so their promise turns sour and leads only deeper into the madness of Radical Nomos. People like Trump are not capable of leading us into a Nomos tertiary to Physis, into sanity.