Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself sad.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2022
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Now your dreams will never again be so peaceful. You will see capital in your nights, like a nightmare, that presses you and threatens to crush you. With terrified eyes you will see it get fatter, like a monster with one hundred proboscises that feverishly search the pores of your body to suck your blood. And finally you will learn to assume its boundless and gigantic proportions, its appearance dark and terrible, with eyes and mouth of fire, morphing its suckers into enormous hopeful trumpets, within which you’ll see thousands of human beings disappear: men, women, children. Down your face will trickle the sweat of death, because your time, and that of your wife and your children will soon arrive. And your final moan will be drowned out by the happy sneering of the monster, glad with your state, so much richer, so much more inhumane.
—Carlo Cafiero, Summary of Marx's Capital
yeah, but you get used to it
Lovecraft was basically translating his alienation with capitalism into short stories. Unfortunately, being a reactionary for most his life, he punched down instead of up, and his fears were pointed at minorities and women and air conditioners instead of the pervasive system itself.
Lmao nice to see Cold Air get a reference instead of his usual stuff people talk about
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I feel this. As much as liberals love stories of people escaping from cults, they really don't like the suggestion that they may be living in one too.
This is a good videogame premise ngl, you’d just have to make the enemies fascist in order to make things palitable
Debord is like They Live glasses. I try to put the glasses on someone else and it leads to a prolonged fight scene over the way it's written. I just want to tell them, "LOOK AT THE APHORISMS. LOOK."
The most timeless of all emojis: :debord-tired:
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In Lovecraft's last letter, didn't he denounce fascism, call himself a fool for believing that, and say capitalism will kill us all?
apparently he joined the socialist party of america the last year of his life
Yeah, it's like looking at Chthulhu. You won't be able to really explain to others what you've seen, and it's too big to really get at all at once anyway.
and we can only really see the shadow it's casting on the world?
I mean, arguably that's the purpose of Marx's dialectical method in Capital. You can't just glance around at random and arrive at a self-consistent conclusion about the broader abstract structures of capitalism. You have to just keep clawing at it until you arrive at some binding kernel of truth.
Silicon valley types worry about evil AI destroying the planet. There are a few cults around it even. MIRI is the most well known around here.
That is specifically a system created by people that is two large for any one to control that has goal antithetical to human life and the ability to manipulate people to support it.
What they fail to realize is that they are projecting their alienation under capitlaism unto the specific tools by which capitalism alienates them. It is wild.
Futurists who worries about AI and immortality is the peak form of imperial core privilege. When you are so far removed from want and bathed with wealth that you have to concocts fictional scenarios to worry about. I fucking hate these people.
I don't hate them. Deep down they want falgsac. They are just so brian poisioned they can't picture any form other than neoliberalism.
Like in the the deep time when we have achived ful nano scale control of all matter and our brains are digiatally stored in cold iron starts orbiting black holes till the heat death of the univere they picture there still being a need for people that specialize in contract law.
A lot of it is projection as well, another form of Capitalist Realism. If you're a STEM/adjacent person in the West, odds are you work in Defense, Oil&Gas, Auto, Aerospace (which rely on the first 2), or Tech/Entertainment (which makes money the same way tobacco or alcohol or gambling companies do, addiction).
Regardless of what exactly you make, odds are someone down the line you come to realize that what you do for a living is based on either killing people, or killing the planet, or making people miserable by selling them more pointless shit to coerce them to keep working for the empire. So it's definitely possible for you to develop a mindset where you can't even imagine the things you work on being used for anything but Bad - prime example is how Silicon Valley leaders shelter their kids from tech more than fundamentalist Christians. You hear about AI, and of course your brain goes to "how are we gonna use this to sell ads, get people addicted, or bomb other countries"? Because that's what the capitalist world makes technology for.
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Sometimes, although I still retain a mix of criticism. According to one of my :LIB: history professors, who I still respect the word of greatly, Marx got plenty of things right but not all of them. For example, I don't like Marx's wish to abolish religion. Religion helps tie people together and we have various subs for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim comrades. However, I think I might be misunderstanding Marx as I know he mentioned citing "Christian asceticism" for some of his inspiration.
That, and both Fidel Castro, MLK, and John Brown cited :jesus-cleanse: for some of their inspiration.
Marx wasn't a big fan of religion, he just saw it as largely a tool wielded by the monarchs (and now capital) to enthrall the workers to their masters. Which is largely a correct reading of Christianity's role in feudal and primitive capitalist Europe.
Religion also played a large role in Colonialism through missionary stuff.
Once you actually analyze Marx's criticism of religion, he's not really criticizing the concept of a God, just the material consequences of the religious superstructure as he had seen is in Europe, America, and the colonies.
His call for an atheist state was more a call for an abandonment of the religious superstructure that had intertwined itself into European politics. Basically a more clear version of the American separation of church and state idea.
You can also see how this actually played out, with the church serving as a bastion for anti-communist activity in the USSR, even today American churches are used as NGO agents of American capital interests, same as the colonial missionaries. There's a reason the religious superstructure of America has shifted so heavily towards prosperity gospel and mega-churches, because religion is not a revolutionary force, but a blank slate that will be used by the existing political economic order to enforce and entrench it's hegemony.
"Cold War Christianity" was probably the best known in the West result of this phenomenon, and it's still fucking up multiple countries. There's sort of this narrative in a lot of churches of "the Holy Cold War" and the Cold War as essentially a modern Crusade. It's kind of funny when you take a step back, but if you were raised Catholic, you know exactly what I'm trying to say and the deep "mundane horror" I'm getting at. It's a hell of an interesting "if you know, you know, and if you haven't lived in and seen it, you'd probably think I'm completely insane". I could absolutely write fiction set in a highly reactionary Catholic school, drawing from the horror I perceived attending one, and have people who've never attended one call it either funny or a very strange take on horror as a genre, while people who have just nod and say "yep, that author's one of us".
Gonna start telling gamers that capitalism is the Amygdala perched on top of Yharnam Cathedral
Yeah I used to jokingly call it forbidden knowledge awhile ago.
It's the knowledge the people SHOULD have though, so I changed my perspective on it a bit even jokingly
After finally getting into theory it fucked me up badly when I finally came around to the conclusion that there is violence all around us, unending, unyielding, all in service of making some number, on a server in the middle of nowhere, go up. At the behest of capital, the state is taking away our homes, our health, and our life all for an imaginary number
I wish I could remember this movie I came across years ago.
I thought it was going to be something like "Supersize Me" but about brands in general. But it turned out to be a lovecraftian/capitalism light horror film. It was weird as fuck and I liked it.
(just looked it up, its called " Branded "
In future Moscow, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.
HAH.. its Russian...
I second this movie, it was quite good.
Damn, this looks tight. Counting this as informal nomination for movie night.
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That's how I see it. Like being deprogrammed to see how evil the US government is like finding out that not only does the mythos exists, but that we are only a hairs away from an elder god waking up and consuming the sun
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