When I was a young man we lived in what I called at the time an “age of plausible deniability.” After 9/11 and the whole “weapons of mass destruction,” debacle, I was forced to concede that we were entering an “age of implausible deniability,” where any lie would do, so long as it was there. And now we are enmeshed in an age of “Fuck yourself quietly, pussy!”
It is hard to know how to feel about all of this. My friends all have lists of corporations they boycott because of bad behavior. “They should at least be pressured.” Really? The difference between a “good corporation” and a “bad corporation” comes down to timing. They behave when that responsible behavior suits investors. Herzog’s “Grizzly Man” documentary is instructive. The guy lived with grizzlies for years. He thought they were “good bears.” He brought his mate out to live with the bears. The couple died horrific deaths the first time the bears got hungry . . . because they are bears. They are not good or bad. They are bears.
Chomsky’s documentary about corporations makes a fine argument that corporations are sociopathic super-citizens, a new kind of entity we are not prepared to handle because the rules of humanity don’t apply. They aren’t good or bad; they are corporations doing what corporations do, which is metastasize. You don’t scold cancers or reward them for going into temporary remission, you either excise them or you regulate their environment. With corporations, we have stopped doing either, and now we are really sick.
Hell, our republic has already died of neoliberalism. If we want a republic, we will have to start from scratch, and this time write a more elastic constitution.
It’s the blatant lies that anger, disgust and disappoint me so. It’s an utter offence to my person, and to our societies as a whole. I can see something wrong happening, I point it out, and they say the opposite without batting an eyelid and expect everyone to go along with it.
Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" is important to this text. I'm not sure how it can be applied, and I will be thinking about it. I can say that we, as intelligent people, delight in pure evil by making it into a layered representation of its opposite. It is an unfathomable paradox that humanity can justify this genocide. I am curious about the psychology behind this.
Evil is banal. Perhaps when we have an Umbrto Eco or Eli Wiesel writing up the lives & feelings of the perpetrators we may come to understand why? They, after all are of us!
https://chuffed.org/project/128905gp Another family with not many supporters. Both are grateful for even a limited donations, though the circumstances require overwhelmingly more. Please show solidarity.
Dan harmon has tightened a specific writing philosophy into a perfect unit. Elegant and human. Plus, Meow Meow Beans and Pickle Rick.
What has Slavs ever really done other than bang Melania Trump in college. A little game of pinko pinko into the stinko.
Slwvy dwvy is like fan fiction about a lost interns cut of blade runner. Blade runner is just ok to begin with. I mean its good, everyone else is just taken it way too far and now its annoying.
For police the nighttime holds 9/11 terrots. They are differently compnstd in every USA town in scrip like house loans to do what? To be in their minds like the officer in Children of Men adventurers who then can act like a double agent and betray individuals for the good of some gold plated Century city. We need to act like tourists, with talents for setting up like the Britons drinking clubs in the wildernessThis was the picture Max Beckman painted of relief from actual torture chambers, was a family in a fishing boat crossing the Medetrnn. CRYPTO Conservatives will seek to ruin your vacation by sending up visions of every body here becoming shamefully instantly unemployable. One has to just be cool eat a bugs bunny carrot and deny that their so called heart is right now breaking.
‘subjective position of enunciation’: total loss of credibility of academic world? Start of desintegration of symbolic order because of the confrontation with Real/Horror , and as a consequence the loss of a symbolic Master ? Even God or higher spiritual authority? The hell, abyss, ....
When I was a young man we lived in what I called at the time an “age of plausible deniability.” After 9/11 and the whole “weapons of mass destruction,” debacle, I was forced to concede that we were entering an “age of implausible deniability,” where any lie would do, so long as it was there. And now we are enmeshed in an age of “Fuck yourself quietly, pussy!”
It is hard to know how to feel about all of this. My friends all have lists of corporations they boycott because of bad behavior. “They should at least be pressured.” Really? The difference between a “good corporation” and a “bad corporation” comes down to timing. They behave when that responsible behavior suits investors. Herzog’s “Grizzly Man” documentary is instructive. The guy lived with grizzlies for years. He thought they were “good bears.” He brought his mate out to live with the bears. The couple died horrific deaths the first time the bears got hungry . . . because they are bears. They are not good or bad. They are bears.
Chomsky’s documentary about corporations makes a fine argument that corporations are sociopathic super-citizens, a new kind of entity we are not prepared to handle because the rules of humanity don’t apply. They aren’t good or bad; they are corporations doing what corporations do, which is metastasize. You don’t scold cancers or reward them for going into temporary remission, you either excise them or you regulate their environment. With corporations, we have stopped doing either, and now we are really sick.
Hell, our republic has already died of neoliberalism. If we want a republic, we will have to start from scratch, and this time write a more elastic constitution.
It’s the blatant lies that anger, disgust and disappoint me so. It’s an utter offence to my person, and to our societies as a whole. I can see something wrong happening, I point it out, and they say the opposite without batting an eyelid and expect everyone to go along with it.
Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" is important to this text. I'm not sure how it can be applied, and I will be thinking about it. I can say that we, as intelligent people, delight in pure evil by making it into a layered representation of its opposite. It is an unfathomable paradox that humanity can justify this genocide. I am curious about the psychology behind this.
Nobody recalls this. Because it changed nothing. Communism failed even if the Russian Revolution was successful.
“Recall the staged performance of "Storming the Winter Palace" in Petrograd, on the third anniversary of the October Revolution…”
Evil is banal. Perhaps when we have an Umbrto Eco or Eli Wiesel writing up the lives & feelings of the perpetrators we may come to understand why? They, after all are of us!
What about the revolutionary seizure of non-power that comes out of Brussels, Slavoj? They have just announced that Europe will block Russian gas even if peace comes: https://fd.nl/politiek/1559035/invoerverbod-voor-russisch-gas-geldt-ook-bij-eventuele-vrede-zegt-brussel?utm_medium=social&utm_source=app&utm_campaign=earned&utm_content=20250618&utm_term=app-ios-
https://open.substack.com/pub/zigguratmag/p/the-guernica-of-ai-c4b?r=fm6qh&utm_medium=ios
I want to add a couple donation follow-ups for Palestinians.
This is a 14-year-old boy who only has one or two donations right now: https://chuffed.org/project/128801-help-ahmad-feed-his-injured-family-after-losing-his-home-in-gaza
https://chuffed.org/project/128905gp Another family with not many supporters. Both are grateful for even a limited donations, though the circumstances require overwhelmingly more. Please show solidarity.
Dan harmon has tightened a specific writing philosophy into a perfect unit. Elegant and human. Plus, Meow Meow Beans and Pickle Rick.
What has Slavs ever really done other than bang Melania Trump in college. A little game of pinko pinko into the stinko.
Slwvy dwvy is like fan fiction about a lost interns cut of blade runner. Blade runner is just ok to begin with. I mean its good, everyone else is just taken it way too far and now its annoying.
I agree about holding moral truth, but I don't understand what seems like techno-vanguardism. It seems too romantic.
This explains Putin’s horrendous cruelty in Ukraine.
For police the nighttime holds 9/11 terrots. They are differently compnstd in every USA town in scrip like house loans to do what? To be in their minds like the officer in Children of Men adventurers who then can act like a double agent and betray individuals for the good of some gold plated Century city. We need to act like tourists, with talents for setting up like the Britons drinking clubs in the wildernessThis was the picture Max Beckman painted of relief from actual torture chambers, was a family in a fishing boat crossing the Medetrnn. CRYPTO Conservatives will seek to ruin your vacation by sending up visions of every body here becoming shamefully instantly unemployable. One has to just be cool eat a bugs bunny carrot and deny that their so called heart is right now breaking.
‘subjective position of enunciation’: total loss of credibility of academic world? Start of desintegration of symbolic order because of the confrontation with Real/Horror , and as a consequence the loss of a symbolic Master ? Even God or higher spiritual authority? The hell, abyss, ....