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  1. Cryptowen
    reminded of the scene in donnie darko where drew barrymore is talking about how "sell her door" is her least favourite expression in the english language, because it reminds her of her childhood when her parents had to sell the door to her bedroom to buy frosty chocolate sundaes
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    Apparently there are 45 living direct descendents of Karl Marx. So with a projected growth rate of 45x every 150 years, we should be on track to have a truly Marxist state population 184,528,125 by the year 2620. With another 300 years of growth we would have a Marx population approx 50 times greater than current population of Earth
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    try to say "unique New York" out loud three times fast. i can't even say it one time slow
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    *stoner in a hemp sweater on a beat up old couch in a garage playing wario ware on his gameboy advance sp in 2004 voice* man, what if, like, they did authoritarianism but instead of bein dicks they just, like, told everybody to fuckin chill?
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    Yeah I also recognize that there's this imulsive tendency to frame these things in terms of a western pluralistic worldview. ie, to say "well people need to be able to voice their opinions in order to be happy". But really that's not true. It's just part of our particular ideology here in the west. Now of course the obvious pushback to this is that freedom of the press is supposed to be about more than just voicing opinions. It's supposed to be about highlighting corruption, bringing attention to human rights violations etc etc. On the one hand those all sounds like good things to have. On the other hand the press, like any other human institution, can itself become corrupt//no longer maintain the stated function of looking out for "objective" public interest. still don't have firm conclusions on this
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    i kinda like the idea of a state maintaining firm clamps on the media & potential agitators if life within that state is generally good
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    The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence
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    i think he's poopular with the kids because he's as close as they've got to a a mainstream rightwing figure who isn't an oldskool "capitalism works! pull yourself up by your bootstraps, kiddo" neocon. i haven't actually watched much of his shit tho so i dunno
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    *two detectives standing in front of a taped off crime scene, watching the pants being placed into a plastic evidence bag with tongs* A: apparently this is the sixth pair of these they've found buried under this field in the last eight weeks B: Just think, they wouldn't have found any of them if this football stadium hadn't been converted to a competitive shovelling league A: at first they thought the stuff they were finding in the pants was dead moles, but...far too many bones for that B: Jesus. Just think, there could be deposits all over town like this A: Forensics ran carbon dating on the crust. Says it's all from within the last five years. One source. You think we're dealing with a serial sharter, Crane? B: Well, I know one thing....Fertilizer....Usually doesn't contain peanut shells & corn *CSI Miami theme starts*
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    people treat shart like it's a fixed definition but really it's fluid, there is a shart spectrum
  11. Cryptowen
    i wouldn't even trust the average five minute youtube video to teach me how to watch five minute youtube videos
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    Yeah I read it last fall, and from what I recall they actually don't seem to disagree with Marx all that much. It's more like a reframing of Marx's system: instead of treating capital in terms of surplus labour value & the ways in which it is used by industrial society/the capitalist class, they focus far more on the historical process by which the bourgeois used the idea of capitalism as a way to gain & maintain power. That's the part of the book that's really interesting to me - they cover details that Marx doesn't get into so much in the latter part of Capital vol1 with his own historical analysis, going all the way back to the collapse of the Roman Empire & the gradual emergence of mercantile power within the feudal system.
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    Yeah it's kinda similar to that actually. I view Nick Land mostly as an Ideas Guy, and specifically an Ideas Guy who was at his peak when he was more or less acting as a channel for 90s rave/cyber culture. He came up with some striking concepts & gave them enough of a philosophical foundation to provide food for thought. But at a certain point he veered far to the right. So I'd say some of his old stuff (or the CCRU material) is worth reading more or less as thought experiments, but be prepared to get off the train when need be because he ends up going in a much different direction than what the early work indicates I also don't identify as an accelerationist but I think its produced some adventurous material. afa 2010s ideologies go the stuff groups like Endnotes do with Communisation is interesting to me, and anyone raising questions about the implications of human psychology/social structure in relation to the emergence of the internet is doing important work.
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    for the record i'm not signal boosting NL overall, I just think some of his stim-fuelled writings from the 90s about Capitalism being a timebending AI from the future retroactively creating the conditions needed for its own existence are kinda neat The problem with Nick Land is that he came up with a bunch of striking nightmare scenarios & then said "alright fellas lets make it happen"
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    ngl this is the kind of authoritarianism that I can get behind
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    @cyanobacteriaare you familiar with Capital as Power? http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/259/ They agree with Marx on many points but are also kinda doing their own thing, incorporating elements of Veblen (what's your take on Veblen?) in order to build a new theory of capitalist power relations. it's a good book & i promise that they aren't techno-eugenicists afaik
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    ^That's come up in my yt feed a few times, I really gotta sit down & watch it cuz the first few seconds are lushhh
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    Yeah Capitalist Realism is ril good/easily accessible/relevant to the present situation more or less Nick Land's writings on capitalism come from a similar mileu and are also good, but might require dropping acid to fully appreciate
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    As a Canadian, what's struck me any time I've visited the states is that everyone feels somehow more, i dunno...not "extraverted", but...more intensely themselves than the average person you'd meet in Canada. Like in Canada it always feels like people are reigning themselves in quite a bit, deliberately presenting a more neutral/generic persona until they really get to know someone. Whereas with most of the Americans I've met, it felt like right off the bat they were giving me their complete, unfiltered personality. So I guess that means that anyone who could theoretically get in your face with some inflamatory opinion is going to do so at the first opportunity yeah this is true. trump's whole shtick was to rustle up the particular reactionary sentiment that's been growing in America since at least the mid-00s (a kind very distinct from oldschool boomer racism or anything like that) by implicitly presenting himself as the charismatic fascist dictator they wanted to see take the reigns. And obviously the fact that he was more just a swindling businessman than an aspiring Supreme Leader, his bumbling still went a long ways to normalizing what had previously been sentiments people spoke about in hushed tones in smokey backrooms (or 4chan, the millenial equivalent of a smokey backroom). Basically the theme of the last four years for all ideologies has been accelerationism
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    I think anti-Chinese sentiment has really increased in the last year because many Americans came to recognize for the first time just how powerful China has gotten. It's been a long time since the USA has had not just a serious rival, but one that could possibly overtake them & upset the neoliberal global order that they've spent many decades constructing. So I think there's a great deal of paranoia/fear of the unknown (ie is China manipulating our media? Did China release the virus to destablize us?) similar to the height of the Cold War, but with the added disadvantage that Chinese People are much further removed racially/culturally from the west-European foundations of the USA than the Russians were
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    just keep in mind that this is the escalation process. both sides gradually come to inhabit completely incompatable ethical/social worlds, feeling increasingly justified viewing anyone on the other side as being mentally deficient, objectively broken, etc etc basically some excuse to either temporarily or permanently strip them of various human rights in order to make society more what everyone (aka everyone your team views as being mentally sound) wants. it escalates, each team only talks to those who will agree/amplify with them, communications break down between factions. and then crazy clown time but hey s'all good as long as the objective good guys of history establish cultural dominance over the objective bad guys
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    Kondylis is really interesting but also makes me wish I knew how to read German
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    I'm currently reading Kondylis & I kinda dig his idea that Liberalism starts off as a fairly rigid social codification implemented by the ascendant bourgeois class, but over a sufficient length of time it decays into a formless mass consciousness in which individuals of all classes become depersonalized units through which macro-level social forces endlessly produce complex (but ultimately insubstantial) cultural forms, trends, mutations etc
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    even smokey the bear?
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    Schumpeter's description of Syndicalism sounds pretty lit i mean jk but this does correspond to a general trend I've observed with socialists I've met irl: either they're quite well educated & have read a lot of literature (at least, literature within a certain milieu) or they're crustpunks who always seem like they're looking around the meeting hall wondering where the molatov cocktails are at
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