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It will pass when the left overcomes our internal differences and works together to fight the fascists instead of each other.
I agree with this, but it's more than just getting along that the left is failing at. We need to organise better, fight more effectively and build strong communities. This is something the religious folks have mastered.
That's why I think we need to use more religious techniques. And no, I don't mean ML brainwashing. I mean we need spiritual ceremonies. We need to use magic as part of our praxis. We need to liberate our minds from the religious brainwashing of capitalism.
Yeah, that'll get the left to unite around you 🙄
The rich are using magic. We need it too, in order to have an equal footing.
Sure thing, bud.
They take a mundane piece of paper, print a picture on it, and it's imbued with metaphysical power that the poor would kill and die to obtain.
And they don't even have to print it to make more! They can just lend and borrow it to create more money out of thin air! That's how the 2008 financial crisis happened. Too much magic mucking with the money.
They buy newspapers and TV stations so they can rewrite the reality that the people believe in. Create a mirage of nukes in Iran through rhetoric. Illusion magic.
They trap your mind in a prison, and they have more than one prison for different kinds of people. Some of the prisons look like you're working against them, but it just advances their agenda further.
Not to mention the Pope. He's got so much magical power over people. But the new kid on the block to challenge Christianity is the worship of money. Trump knows it, he's made himself a religion.
So I guess I wonder what you believe the word "magic" means...
Observable phenomena caused by things that aren't real. Money isn't real, but we see it make the world work. It's powered by collective belief. Magic.
Money is real. And please don't waste your time, I know the argument you're going to make and it's stupid. It doesn't matter if it's based on piles of shiny metal or not. It's real. You can learn all about it if you want by studying economics. You'll find out pretty quickly that there's nothing magic about it.
Money is a social construct. Money can be real, but only to people who are either so ignorant they don't understand the issue, or to people who admit that reality is also a social construct.
I'm intrigued to hear you mention magic. I'm a software engineer and technical director of my own media studio. I have recently been trying to nudge my career into that next level where I just tell people what I do is magic, so I don't have to go too deep into the inner workings. I can explain the how, but honestly over the years I've learned people don't want to know how things work they just want to reap the benefits.
In Jodorowsky's Technopriests, the protagonist seeks to guide his people to a place where they can establish a new society. One where harmonious human relationships are valued more than technological prowess corrupted by an excess of total science and a total lack of consciousness.
I wonder how we can replicate such a journey in real life. Because it's desperately needed.
If you're lucky enough to live in Australia, get to know the Aboriginal people in your local community. Attend some Indigenous cultural events as a learner. White culture has forgotten how to value relationships over technology, but Indigenous culture still remembers. Just remember not to be a nuisance. Listen, be respectful, and do what you can to give as much help as you receive.
Jodorowski is a loon with zero qualifications in science or philosophy. I'm not sure why a person would take anything he says about reality with anything less than a grain of salt. Especially when it eschews actual, real, science.