Cryptowen

children of men but for shitting

the illuminati really havin a laff with this one

since the gym has been closed i've been going to the park at 5AM each morning to use the pull-up bars etc. Now that the curfew has been lifted (three days ago) each time i go there there are drunk people hanging out in the park who've clearly been there all night. really harshing the vibe. the sound of morning birds replaced by faded scruffians making growling noises at each other & giggling incessently. this morning a pack of them were listening to the same song on loop the whole time i was there, chanting "insane in the membrance" with heavy qeb accents (they were not listening to insane in the membrane but some other rap song). luckily the actual gym opens in a week

kim Jong Un seems like a boss i can't remember the last american president who went out of his way to have portraits taken riding around on a horse

Ah yes, the mentally unstable & criminal masterminds. Two groups who would definitely benefit from being forced to be completely alone with their thoughts for what feels like 15x a typical human lifespan.

the problem i have with moral framings is that it doesn't point to anything objective. at most it just points to something a lot of people agree on currently. people could theoretically disagree. Hell, there have been many entire cultures where the idea of being an invading warrior barbarian would have been considered dope af. Which isn't to say that I myself think the west should or shouldn't repent for perceived past sins. I just think it's a bit of a sleight of hand to frame this as something that some kinda universal authority has determined, and not just the consensus of a sufficient number of individuals

just shit your pants every time she gives you shit & if she asks why start telling her about the log of attraction

an original edition of MUFON? solid

Last Year at Marienbad

i figured they were probably out there but i don't want to spoil my mental image of him as the kind of guy who would make his only official public photo one where he looks like the neighbour's dog was shitting in his flowerbed just slightly off camera

lol i don't remember the article but i remember hearing about this. in a way it's sort of comforting because it shows just how uncordinated the western financial elites are, like they can never see too far beyond "how do I maximize free time before an angry mob inevitably ties me up to four different motorcycles going in different directions?". like it suggests that if & when things get bad enough that the masses revolt (uh) en masse they won't have much of a contingency plan. like i think their plan is literally just to scramble to automate military hardware as much as possible so that a small team of lackeys can protect them from the other 99% of the population

aye yeah summer 2020 had strong end of the world vibes even entirely ignoring the macarena virus curious to see if things will get turnt up this summer

yeah it is making me wonder where i want to settle long term. i don't want to stay in the city forever (in fact I had been planning on leaving early 2020 just before covid started) the east coast (where I'm from) is nice but it seems to be getting heavily populated of late (dunno if this trend will continue or if it's just a fad. fingers crossed that my new brunswick homeland remains ignored, i like it that way). maybe the north will be the next great frontier? afaik it's still so remote that it'd be ages before it becomes super developed or hit by these heat waves

two of the last three summers were absolutely nuts here. in 2018 a bunch of people died. in 2020 pretty much all the grass & trees were dying in the parks because it was so dry this year we were having 25c days in March & now +30c days in May. that hot for kaneda

but isn't the system vs the people already a conceptual division of the human race

word. when i worked in a brunch restaurant i had access to all of these super-expensive third wave brands with exotic flavours, but imo nothing quite replaces the taste of old burnt coffee that has been sitting in the auto-dispenser at the gas station overnight. i try to cycle through the gas stations i go to just to get coffee but i think they've all come to recognize me at this point at peak caffeine consumption i was making coldbrew using monster energy drink instead of water

current reading: the question concerning technology in china - I wanna see more stuff like this, that explores the idea of an anti-globalist form of multiculturalism. like basically the author (who is Chinese but very well versed in western philosophy) is demonstrating how different cultures see the world in fundamentally different ways, and that it wouldn't really be in anyone's interest (or at least not in most peoples' imo) to attempt to replace that with one generic world monoculture. And yet at the same time we've developed to the point now where multiple cultures are inevitably going to have global concerns, and there needs to be some way to deal with that god & the state - (just finished) it's interesting how even though this is a classic anti-religious text, Bakunin spends a great deal of time attacking one of the sacred cows of contemporary atheism: the belief that a society run by scientists would somehow be immune to the problems he highlights in societies run by priests. he basically argues that an intellectual oligarchy would emerge that would do their best to keep the deep mechanisms of science/industry/politics as occluded as possible to the masses in order to ensure their continued position of authority; that even if you champion the merits of science itself (which Bakunin does) it still inevitably gets interpreted by individual actors who are prone to corruption just like anyone else. Overall good book. sometimes when he gets polemical it's kinda like Marx, 50% funny 50% annoying phenomenology of perception - just started, new to Merleau-Ponty. Can already tell this one is gonna be a task to get through. he's constantly going "hey you know this aspect of sensual experience that's very difficult to articulate in language? Welll...*proceeds to describe it in detail for several pages*...Now he're why that way of describing it is actually completely wrong" revelation space - mostly just read this one because i found a free copy & thought it would be a nice change of pace. It was...alright? I dunno, I didn't feel like it left me with a lot to think about. It just felt like binge watching a netflix series, basically. i'm sure if you're into this kinda thing it's pretty good. i will give the guy props for painting a fairly realistic-feeling portrait of humanity as a space-faring race five centuries from now. Probably if it was more artfully written I would have enjoyed it more the political & man - still. this shit's like 900 pages. if you want an idea of what reading this book feels like just take a look at the only known photo of the man who wrote it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panagiotis_Kondylis

somebody once asked, on this vaccine could i pass? i need to get myself away from bill gates i said yep, what a concept, i've heard a few side effects myself that make your balls get a little sttrreaaaaanggge well, pfizer: you start cumming & you don't stop cumming

thanks! it's something i'd like to develop further, maybe write a proper thing on. a very common complaint about artists' careers/life in general is "you get older, magic is lost to complexity, you become cynical & bureaucratic"; but i think there's a way of reframing it as a continuous process of evolution. you lose the naive magical frame of youth but you open up the possibility of affirming some higher-level narrative of Becoming which incorporates that process of "loss" without simply ruminating on it

imo their mainline albums kinda have this narrative trajectory to them MHTRTC: first decade of life, very warm & nostalgic Geogaddi: teenage years, kinda dark & edgy but still in this very warm/analogue style Campfire: college years, more "real world" associations. things are a bit cleaner, there is this feeling of reaching adulthood but still quite optimistic about the future Harvest: being in your 30s, suddenly much less nostalgic sounding. this lingering tension & awareness of complex real world/political themes I kinda hope the next one continues this progression in a way that also affectively kills nostalgia culture

imo I think a person needs to adopt an Esoteric Decian stance in order to parse hypermodernity. once you conceive of cryptocurrency in terms of the gangster computer god living on the dark side of the moon you really start to make some headway

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kinda want to live in the autonomous rural american breakaway state tbh

sup's avatar has become a general internet meme now but i still think of sup every time i see it

its interesting how low res cgi graphics back in the day used to signal "futuristic", whereas when i see it on stuff from the last decade my read is "the uncanny contained within the mundane". would that be accurate? like my first impression with this stuff is that at some point vaporwave aesthetics branched off in two directions. on the one hand you have the chill beats to study to branch, ie accessible party music & downtempo that's heavy on iconic sample loops. on the other hand you have this stuff which seems to have siezed upon the "internet" aspect that was always inherent to vaporwave, ie the underlying thematic once you got past the sampling, the exploration of the way in which the web take every previously existing aesthetic and melts them together into this cotton candy mutation. disregarding all previously established tastes as an experiment to see what new tastes might emerge