Co-opt This, You Parasites!

 If you look at the geography of any Port, certainly those that have grown organically, the pattern is the same.

(I don't have a book about this and will be happy to have this analysis improved.)

So, beside the wharf, there will be warehouses where in ship's loaded are initially stored.

Behind these are further warehouses where provisions for the ships' subsequent journeys are collected prior to enshipment. Usually, it is here that pubs and their associated trades can be found.

Behind that is a market area where the arriving goods are sold: Cheapside in The City of London is still a retailing area.

Finally, rather hidden from view are the money buildings (banks, insurance Companies and the Political institutions that 'maintain' order in all this, with their Libraries, Police Stations and Courts) are found.

Typically, ship repair yards and Prisons are on the opposite side of the river, if the port is, like the City if London on a tidal river, or, as in the cases of, say, Montreal, Toronto and elsewhere, some way away from the centre of the port.

Now, why am I pecking this out?

Firstly, because patterns of human activity evolve in recognisable patterns: a trivial observation.

Secondly, because to all appearances, a Port is viewed at the water's edge, gradually backwards and, then to the zone of avarice: the markets in sex and things.

But the real action is going on behind all that: in the money buildings: which the Capitalist Conspirators now call 'Financial Services' and the Scriveners and Professional, 'Career' Politicians and Place-men call 'Legal Services'.

Nowadays, such Parasites operate in plain view.

They, even, feign to publish books like 'The Great Reset' and 'Stakeholder Capitalism' in attempts to give the appearance of operating 'For The Common Good'.

But just consider the fatuous nonsense if the term that they will co-opt, once this short essay is published:

   'Capitalism For The Common Good.'

Ha! And this:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/common-good-capitalism-can-reinforce-freedom/

Ps:

As an example of the Parasites already twisting on the gibbet, this:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/the-case-for-common-good-capitalism/amp/