The Church Got There First
Concept · political_economy · hunch · visibility: publishable
The seed of an academic manifesto: ‘a tangible if a little credulous theory that the Catholic Church is responsible for this whole observation economy — getting there first and claiming it in the name of God.’ The institutional ancestor of the bookkeepers-and-gatekeepers thesis: whoever first claimed the authority to observe, record, and adjudicate set the template that late-stage capitalism inherited.
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source: Building a rock solid aesthetic and closet (2026-04-08) · extraction: auto (schema v3.1)