Comrades, Welcome to the desert of the real. I am new to Substack, but already feel at home. I can publish what I want, when I want, and communicate directly with you, my readers. This year, I will endeavour to publish twice a week; Politics midweek, Culture or Bonus Obscenities on the weekend.
say that again to my victims families.. i feel the urge again to tell that feeling something do not necessarily implicating to act like it.. do you get it?
He's said he's on substack now so that he can get his work out there without it getting declined. Also, far as I know, his angle on enjoyment regarding smoking and e-cigs in this piece is new.
I am a prof at parsons, studio classes and fundamentals, and have recently said, for papers, can read anywhere, but must site, same for AI, must site, as part of the worldwide wicki licky sic-y. and as a result I got some pretty well researched topicals. THO using for artwork is still mmmm except for reptition makers, pretty icky, the play with tho in repeaters and such is pretty fine actually, some things it does == but if your intake is "wrong" at least if you site it, then can address as ai miss, but in fact their papers were well don. huh.
i don’t think so. didn’t see any “delve into” or “rich tapestry” nonsense.
i’d imagine Zizek, among others, use AI for editing, ideas, outlining, etc. but probably not the simple “write an article about X topic” the way we’ve seen on many lazy blogs.
If I smoke anything in the future it will be CBD because I want to align myself with the utilitarian spirit, but not so much that the pipes I bought serve no purpose. Also due to the stigma that the weed smell has in comparison to the tobacco smell, I wish that CBD and the male version of cannabis smelled like menthol tobacco. Therefore if I do smoke CBD sometime in the future, I will have to treat it like a shameful but enjoyable thing that I keep inside the home, like Crocs and fake plants.
A cig'rett is a vote for fun. Zizek can we ammend that helpful allure you felt for platitudes to the ones that give an implied threat? Those ones bring more energy to life. It simply is sincere to say cleanliness is next to godlike. But one cannot change by turning on a dime, is one message of Sapolsky saying we Have no will-power. I like these platitudes that arenot already worn out. They threaten and show their teeth like real conversationalists.
tune takes a cigarette putts it in. your mouth. outside under awning. and its pouring. and rain makes it all that much more a dash from staying inside, remember going to NY athletic club on a date and fnding smokers in bathroom with the girls, and there stood an aunie mame kind of cross with j childe, damned if she did smoky laugh we hung...
It did turn own I didnt mind the "blows" but it sows through poetic tumbril, as my way of finding -- nc gave me finders but dog face reilly the weepers keepers. Reread Sylvia's poems, 94 percent of it, her last year up to, she classed with Lowell and oh ya know it show, kno wwhat I mean, it shows her narrative and her poems are very different, and thats ok.....
"after God is dead, nothing is anymore permitted." Lacan appears to have been on to something. Unlike the restriction centered narrative of an Anglosphere that thinks it has moved on from its Protestant whitewashing of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, we were "allowed" to do a lot more back then than is commonly assumed. Both good and bad, but never anti-fun in practice. We owe the existence of modern European brewing and fermenting traditions, for instance, to the Roman Catholic Church, not to the devil nor to the secular world.
Today, it seems that mechanizing humanity a la Karel Capek has made us all anti-fun. There is, after all, no mechanico-logical directive suggesting machines derive utilitarian value from fun, any more than it was logical for robots to fart in that one South Park episode. But we aren't machines: we're human. Let people smoke if they want; some, like former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, can live until 96. It depends on the person. Unless Ray Kurzweil is proven right in the coming years, life is short no matter what. And as Shel Silverstein sang: "we're all gonna die." It's one thing to want to live as long as possible to make the most of life. It's another to orient one's life so pithily around a cringy form of "survival" while the good parts of life fly by, and demand the rest of the world adhere to your whims. We saw a lot of that during covid, when mass formation revealed the true character of so many who normally claimed they love freedom, and then encouraged the government to steal freedom from everyone else in their name.
What's always so funny about the anti-smoking mentality is that society seems to hate the vice most intrinsically associated with Native America. Sounds like these anti-smokers are a bunch of racist bigots, eh Slavoj? :P
It is a generation thing - one side of the line one sees Boggie taking a drag and the young people in the audience say "that's so cool!" on the other (μεν/δε) the millennials say "that's gross!" and light up some marijuana, because of them pot is legal.
This means that there is. a sociological dimension to the habits which we engage in. After all marijuana was illegal because it was assigned of putting "the Negro folks in jail" with the final step being the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Just because Hollywood censors itself it doesn’t mean millennials (many of us now in our 40s) don’t think smoking on old movies looks cool, even more so now because it is prohibited and dangerous. Of course, we generally don’t like the smell of smoke in real life because we didn’t grow up around it, but that’s different.
There is a huge difference between not doing something because it is seen as dangerous or illegal and not doing something because you think it’s gross. I think skydiving and BASE jumping are cool as hell but I would never do it myself.
Pot has been legalized and normalized among millennials, but many also vape.
There is definitely a social dimension, but my point is just that it is not as simple as “cigarettes gross, marijuana cool.” It has more to do with what is perceived as acceptable risk. Marijuana is perceived as non-addictive with limited negative health outcomes while smoking is seen as a really bad for you. Young smokers and vapers are generally embarrassed by their addiction because it signals a lack of self control and commitment to personal health. But I would argue this simply reinforces the inverse perception that people smoking in old media are cool because it was a) usually before they knew cigarettes were bad and b) demonstrates a nihilistic self confidence that is impossible for modern smokers in today’s health focused culture.
My only issue with your original comment is the idea that millennials think cigarettes in old movies are “gross,” when I have never heard that from my cohort.
"My only issue with your original comment is the idea that millennials think cigarettes in old movies are 'gross,' when I have never heard that from my cohort."
nearly always when i have read žižek i feel the urge to take a gun and go out in public..
there’s surplus enjoyment to be had in unpacking that with your therapist
say that again to my victims families.. i feel the urge again to tell that feeling something do not necessarily implicating to act like it.. do you get it?
Is this AI generated?
Yes I have the same suspicion. I think this isn't Slavoj.
He's said he's on substack now so that he can get his work out there without it getting declined. Also, far as I know, his angle on enjoyment regarding smoking and e-cigs in this piece is new.
Phil, Emerson, MOODY. You're nuts. Praise be to Nicholas.
Many prominent writers on this app hire ghostwriters. Maybe it’s a mix of ai & ghostwriting/editing
No, he's just a workaholic who repeats himself to return to important points.
I am a prof at parsons, studio classes and fundamentals, and have recently said, for papers, can read anywhere, but must site, same for AI, must site, as part of the worldwide wicki licky sic-y. and as a result I got some pretty well researched topicals. THO using for artwork is still mmmm except for reptition makers, pretty icky, the play with tho in repeaters and such is pretty fine actually, some things it does == but if your intake is "wrong" at least if you site it, then can address as ai miss, but in fact their papers were well don. huh.
i don’t think so. didn’t see any “delve into” or “rich tapestry” nonsense.
i’d imagine Zizek, among others, use AI for editing, ideas, outlining, etc. but probably not the simple “write an article about X topic” the way we’ve seen on many lazy blogs.
There are also typos.
This comment was facetious, but, still, it's surprising to see Zizek on here. Not that I'm complaining or anything.
Yes. But what about all the smoking of weed in American movies? How does that fit in?
If I smoke anything in the future it will be CBD because I want to align myself with the utilitarian spirit, but not so much that the pipes I bought serve no purpose. Also due to the stigma that the weed smell has in comparison to the tobacco smell, I wish that CBD and the male version of cannabis smelled like menthol tobacco. Therefore if I do smoke CBD sometime in the future, I will have to treat it like a shameful but enjoyable thing that I keep inside the home, like Crocs and fake plants.
A cig'rett is a vote for fun. Zizek can we ammend that helpful allure you felt for platitudes to the ones that give an implied threat? Those ones bring more energy to life. It simply is sincere to say cleanliness is next to godlike. But one cannot change by turning on a dime, is one message of Sapolsky saying we Have no will-power. I like these platitudes that arenot already worn out. They threaten and show their teeth like real conversationalists.
tune takes a cigarette putts it in. your mouth. outside under awning. and its pouring. and rain makes it all that much more a dash from staying inside, remember going to NY athletic club on a date and fnding smokers in bathroom with the girls, and there stood an aunie mame kind of cross with j childe, damned if she did smoky laugh we hung...
I'm a chain smoker.. thinking about quitting because I had a surgery and was forced to pause. Not sure what to do now. :/
40 years of women’s lib killed that tag line dead and Covid buried it alive. woof.
It did turn own I didnt mind the "blows" but it sows through poetic tumbril, as my way of finding -- nc gave me finders but dog face reilly the weepers keepers. Reread Sylvia's poems, 94 percent of it, her last year up to, she classed with Lowell and oh ya know it show, kno wwhat I mean, it shows her narrative and her poems are very different, and thats ok.....
The meal was expensive what did you ate? Air.
Learn something about tantric sex practices. Sexual Frustration in people is the biggest threat to this world.
slavoj beemed directly into my brain via email. this is precisely what i needed in my life.
Hehe
"after God is dead, nothing is anymore permitted." Lacan appears to have been on to something. Unlike the restriction centered narrative of an Anglosphere that thinks it has moved on from its Protestant whitewashing of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, we were "allowed" to do a lot more back then than is commonly assumed. Both good and bad, but never anti-fun in practice. We owe the existence of modern European brewing and fermenting traditions, for instance, to the Roman Catholic Church, not to the devil nor to the secular world.
Today, it seems that mechanizing humanity a la Karel Capek has made us all anti-fun. There is, after all, no mechanico-logical directive suggesting machines derive utilitarian value from fun, any more than it was logical for robots to fart in that one South Park episode. But we aren't machines: we're human. Let people smoke if they want; some, like former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, can live until 96. It depends on the person. Unless Ray Kurzweil is proven right in the coming years, life is short no matter what. And as Shel Silverstein sang: "we're all gonna die." It's one thing to want to live as long as possible to make the most of life. It's another to orient one's life so pithily around a cringy form of "survival" while the good parts of life fly by, and demand the rest of the world adhere to your whims. We saw a lot of that during covid, when mass formation revealed the true character of so many who normally claimed they love freedom, and then encouraged the government to steal freedom from everyone else in their name.
What's always so funny about the anti-smoking mentality is that society seems to hate the vice most intrinsically associated with Native America. Sounds like these anti-smokers are a bunch of racist bigots, eh Slavoj? :P
surplus-enjoyment
It is a generation thing - one side of the line one sees Boggie taking a drag and the young people in the audience say "that's so cool!" on the other (μεν/δε) the millennials say "that's gross!" and light up some marijuana, because of them pot is legal.
This means that there is. a sociological dimension to the habits which we engage in. After all marijuana was illegal because it was assigned of putting "the Negro folks in jail" with the final step being the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Just because Hollywood censors itself it doesn’t mean millennials (many of us now in our 40s) don’t think smoking on old movies looks cool, even more so now because it is prohibited and dangerous. Of course, we generally don’t like the smell of smoke in real life because we didn’t grow up around it, but that’s different.
1. The millennials, as a group reject smoking. There is, of course, a geographical basis.
2. Every age grew up with pot - but this generation decided it should be made legal. That's a cultural difference and I would submit it is the same.
There is a huge difference between not doing something because it is seen as dangerous or illegal and not doing something because you think it’s gross. I think skydiving and BASE jumping are cool as hell but I would never do it myself.
Pot has been legalized and normalized among millennials, but many also vape.
There is definitely a social dimension, but my point is just that it is not as simple as “cigarettes gross, marijuana cool.” It has more to do with what is perceived as acceptable risk. Marijuana is perceived as non-addictive with limited negative health outcomes while smoking is seen as a really bad for you. Young smokers and vapers are generally embarrassed by their addiction because it signals a lack of self control and commitment to personal health. But I would argue this simply reinforces the inverse perception that people smoking in old media are cool because it was a) usually before they knew cigarettes were bad and b) demonstrates a nihilistic self confidence that is impossible for modern smokers in today’s health focused culture.
My only issue with your original comment is the idea that millennials think cigarettes in old movies are “gross,” when I have never heard that from my cohort.
"My only issue with your original comment is the idea that millennials think cigarettes in old movies are 'gross,' when I have never heard that from my cohort."
I have.