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  1. Cryptowen
    yeah i think this is part of why conspiracy theorists tend to be associated more with the political right, if we take the right as "prefers central authority" (i'm treating things like libertarianism & anarcho-capitalism as mutations of liberalism). the conspiracy theorist subconsciously wants there to be someone calling the shots, even if that person is out to get them. whereas in actuality a lot of modern chaos seems to emerge from the fact that there really isn't any sort of elite authority or organizing principle holding things together (in actual fact we inhabit a world in which those who most ruthlessly pursue their individual interest tend to rise to the top)
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    the pandemic has been a good lesson in A. the fact that there probably isn't a secret global elite calling the shot B. actually maybe things would run better if there was
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    individualism
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    yeah i honestly don't feel like things are going to "go back to normal". it's all just going to keep compounding - the environmental stuff, the political tension, the disintegration of cohesive social structure etc. It feels a bit disingenuous (perhaps wishful thinking) when i see news articles now going "face it folks, it's time to get back to the office". to me that just feels like big financial capital trying to squeeze the last bit of toothpaste out of the tube so they can secure their gated farming communities & armed bodyguard militias before shit really starts to fall apart. things aren't going back to normal imo. maybe we'll have a year or two of "kinda" normal. like being on an airplane with the engine stops but it hasn't gone into a nosedive yet, it's just coasting. Like being at a party where everyone can feel some sort of violent confrontation building, but it hasn't occured yet. everyone laughing a little too loud, being a little too jovial, trying desperately to disguise the nervous energy.
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    what if the real mask is the implication that there's anything behind it
  6. Cryptowen
    if half watching warhammer 40k timeline summary videos has taught me anything, it's that this silly america vs china rivalry is but a trifling matter in the grand unfolding of horrors that is to be humanity's future history
  7. Cryptowen
    the bass wash when the title drops at the end is pretty lush, gg
  8. Cryptowen
    i feel like it's gotten quite a bit harder to torrent films/shows in the last few years, which is the opposite of what i would have expected/hoped for. Music's still pretty easy to come by though
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    trump was sup
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    Do you guys remember that british kids' show that used to air on the disney channel, called Shart Attack? I used to watch it all the time. I remember how every episode the host would say "it's time for a really big shart attack", and then usually they would go out to some public location (like a cafe, an airport, a mall food court etc) and secretly spike a random uknowing person's drink or food with laxatives & film them reacting to it. yeah so i was wondering wht happened, why the show just stopped airing one day. turns out that something had gone horribly wrong once while filming an episode. the host had made a special shart whistle, it worked too well. you guys, i recomend not looking up the footage, its pretty fucked up. a man sharts all of his internal organs & turns inside out. i could see why the disney channel only aired this episode a couple of times
  11. Cryptowen
    i didn't know hunter was into nfts
  12. Cryptowen
    the fact that i can even comprehend what this means suggests i may have inhaled too many spores
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    that's the kinda thing you print out and put up on the wall in a frame
  15. Cryptowen
    real tough period they went through back in the day. so hungry they had to eat bags of Mao Mix: cat food, basically. and i ain't talkin about the kind they serve in Guangxi
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    yeah that's basically my feeling. and i mean i feel bad for people who have kids or plans for the future, but personally my whole life so far has mostly felt like a prelude to/anticipation of some kind of massive collapse. i wouldn't want to force that on the rest of the world but
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    dingposting on main
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    one of my favourite tracks from any genre or era. basically a perfect experienc, even moreso for how simple it all is. it's like being on acid for the very first time, staring at some grass or a concrete sidewalk or a patch of old fence. kinda track that you listen to it & after you feel like you can appreciate the hidden symmetry in everything
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    Getting turnt up & making out with someone at a rave is usually a pretty effective treatment for existential ennui
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    this is something i felt strongly at various points throughout my 20s. eventually i started to get the sense that most people felt that way, and indeed in a certain sense it's even true: people are my nature always concerned with their own lives first & foremost (possible exceptions are having a kid, or shortly after falling in love). life is a long slog & generally speaking you are going to be by far the person who is most concerned with your well-being. It isn't something about you in particular, that's just the way the world is. Maybe it'd be different if you were living in an ancient agrarian farming village & only knew like two dozen people your whole life, but that is no longer the case I think for me internalizing this helped in the long run. I came to feel that this sense of isolation/existential emptiness wasn't something that was going to become fixed one day. And yet, I didn't feel the urge to give up on life. Life became less about feeling "good" again, and more about finding a sense of determination. Life became an ongoing process of trying to develop my own framework of meaning, my own sense of valuation, something personal & internal that would give me a sense of fulfillment via my own constant efforts. The thing is is that when I moved forward in this way, the existential malaise didn't just go away. I had months & months (multiple years, recurrently perhaps) where it all felt pointless - just a distraction from the emptiness of it all. But even that became a sort of affirmatory process, choosing to endure against all reason, just as an act of willing imo the will to live isn't somethng that exists out there in the world. it's something you have to build up out of nothing. and it's not that no one wants to help, it's that ultimately no one can help. it's wholly unique to you. it comes in a way only you can recognize.. imo
  21. Cryptowen
    first month of the gym being back open, my guy on symmetricstrength.com is back up to 67.8 when i hit 75 i get Proficient, then i can join the horse wrestling squad
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    critics are raving, bill cosby comeback tour "not to be slept on"
  24. Cryptowen
    looks like pudding pops are back on the menu fellas
  25. Cryptowen
    bourgeois ideology
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