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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    On 7/27/2021 at 11:13 AM, Cryptowen said:

    a restaurant employee seems to have chosen the spot just beneath my window as his new smoke break location, dude coughs like his lungs were beanie babies and he was trying to unload them before the bubble collapses

    My window gets a lot of activity.  Last night a guy chose it as the spot to yell angrily across the street about how much he hates black people (using more controversial terminology).  It was my least favorite thing to wake up to.

    jordan b peterson

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    One of the most aggressive facets of Ideology is the insistence that anyone who critiques Ideology is an enemy who must be punished.  It's really quite wasteful.  The Territory is a ruthless game of Capital's expansion.  As Ideas repeat, however, they always find the cracks in Ideology and deterritorialize from within.  No fortress is invulnerable.  Capital will reclaim the nutritional contents of our neoliberal fascism and recycle it into the desiring-machine.

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    jordan b peterson

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    JBP may be an annoying, overhyped, intellectually lazy man, but labeling someone as a Nazi isn't a substitute for actual critique.  Save your puritanism for the witch trials.  If you want to know how to discuss philosophical issues legitimately, then I'll clue you in:  instead of spending your energy on trying to tack him onto an identity people fear, I recommend treating his polemic as if it exists in an ideological vacuum, in which ideas slide through cracks and freely collide like a fission reactor, or the plasmids inside a cell, duplicating and repeating in indefinite variations and combinations.  If you simply tack ideas on to National Socialism, then it will actually cause National Socialism to become a real giant monster that you've created.  And I'm not about to fight your monsters for you.  When the Nazis come knocking at your door I'm not going to save you.

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    Cornelius Resigns from 2021 Tokyo Olympics Over Past Bullying

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    Hold on, I'm not finished:  all that shit you love on Netflix.  Most of it was made by pedophiles.  They're out there, they're rich, and you'll never find out about it unless they do something really stupid because they're filthy rich.  Oh yeah.  For everyone whose offences come out in public, there are probably ten who've managed to keep their skeletons in the closet.

    But that isn't to say that Corny shouldn't have to deal with legal repurcussions.  It just means that he was hired to make music, and having unconfessed sins shouldn't impede his ability to do the job, am I right?  Hell yeah, you know it.

    Cornelius Resigns from 2021 Tokyo Olympics Over Past Bullying

    in Music Discussion

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    This puritanical bullshit is ridiculous.  Why do people think that someone has to be an unblemished paschal lamb in order to write a melody?  Is my soul going to get besmottered if I accidentally like a piece of music written by this guy?

    Instead of firing him for doing something bad, I propose an alternate solution:  keep him on the job, but have him use a pseudonym (or better yet, let him stay anonymous).  That way, you still get the music you wanted, but you don't have to worry about people going to hell for watching the Olympics.  Everybody's happy.

    On a personal note, I employ an unorthodox tactic when I approach music:  I listen to the sounds that I hear and I don't take the time to read about the person who made them.  I find it helps me to stay grounded and unperturbed by the eternal consequences of hearing certain chord progressions.

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    Your pointless thoughts & observations

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    15 hours ago, brian trageskin said:

    by that, do you mean you can hear in advance what they're gonna say?

    No, I hear what they're gonna say at the same time that they're saying it.  But I honestly can't stand when I can hear a song's melody in advance.  When that starts happening it's a sign that I've listened to something too many times and I have to find something new.  That's why I like really crazy atonal jazz, it's the music that I'm least likely to predict by accident.

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