"See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet."
Crimethinc.
#adjuster #crimethInc
"See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet."
Crimethinc.
#adjuster #crimethInc
"People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger."
Barack Obama
"Denying healthcare is violence. Evictions are violence. Polluting our air, water, & food is violence. Capitalism is based on violence & couldn't function without it."
"All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the Al algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else"
Our meme dealer is happy with us
CEO is a role, you decide how to play it, like Alfred Herrhausen ...
"The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven."
Gautama Buddha
“The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.”
Leon Trotsky
The Internet vs ... ?
“Everything’s got to end sometime. Otherwise nothing would ever get started.”
Doctor Who
"Zur Erinnerung: Die USA haben das teuerste Gesundheitssystem der Welt, und dennoch rangieren wir bei der Lebenserwartung auf Platz 42. United ist nach Marktkapitalisierung das größte Unternehmen in den USA, hinter Apple, Google und Walmart. Es ist gewachsen und gewachsen, aber wie steht es um unsere Lebenserwartung? Nein, die Realität ist, dass diese [unleserlich] einfach zu mächtig geworden sind, und sie missbrauchen unser Land weiterhin für immense Profite, weil die amerikanische Öffentlichkeit es ihnen erlaubt hat, damit durchzukommen.
Offensichtlich ist das Problem komplexer, aber mir fehlt der Platz, und offen gesagt gebe ich nicht vor, die qualifizierteste Person zu sein, um die gesamte Argumentation darzulegen. Aber viele haben die Korruption und die Gier (z. B. Rosenthal, Moore) schon vor Jahrzehnten beleuchtet, und die Probleme bleiben einfach bestehen.
Es ist keine Frage des Bewusstseins, sondern es sind eindeutig Machtspiele im Spiel. Offensichtlich bin ich der erste, der sich dem mit solch brutaler Ehrlichkeit stellt.“
Luigi's Manifesto
"Domination is a relationship, not a condition; it depends on the participation of both parties. Hierarchical power is not just the gun in the policeman's hand; it is just as much the obedience of the ones who act as if it is always pointed at them. It is not just the government and the executives and the armed forces; it extends through society from top to bottom, an interlocking web of control and compliance. Sometimes all it takes to be complicit in the oppression of millions is to die of natural causes."
CrimethInc.
This story is yet another example of how ill suited the major media is in reporting important truths when norms and conventions get in the way — in this case social mores around death (even of a powerful public person.)
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/unitedhealthcare-tells-employees
"One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities."
Crimethinc.
And now everyone is asking themselves: How could it have come to this? Were drugs involved? Is he mentally ill?
No, it's not healthy to be perfectly adapted to a totally sick system. Don't look for the fault in Luigi, but in society and the systems it operates and how they are operated.
“Conformist thinking is self-defeating because it knows only the categories of punishment and submission, but not the potential that lies in understanding. The image of the enemy must be maintained at all costs; for this reason, the "enemy" must never be humanized. Both the revolutionary and the conformist depend on the image of the enemy; they need it in order to rationalize their violence to maintain their positions.”
Arno Gruen, The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
The story so far:
"A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy." Luigi
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/unitedhealthcare-tells-employees
"Ein Mann erzählt davon, dass Menschen nicht mehr an Krankheiten sterben, dass die Überbevölkerung riesige Ausmaße annimmt und ein Algorithmus aussiebt, wer für die Gesellschaft Nutzen hat; alle anderen müssen sterben."
Tödlicher Reichtum
https://www.golem.de/news/rich-flu-toedlicher-reichtum-2412-190852.html
"Deny Defend Depose"
“It is primarily the inability to tolerate feelings that brings about disassociation between thought and feeling. Although this is considered a characteristic of schizophrenic behavior, it is true of us “normal“ people and not of schizophrenics. In the latters’ case, disassociation is an expression of the refusal to produce imposed in the hypocritical feelings. For it is not that schizophrenics are incapable of tolerating real feelings of pain, sorrow, despair, or joy; they simply reject living with the distortions of these feelings. But when “normal“ men and women cannot tolerate helplessness, for instance, they need to seek relief in a “reality“ that is contemptuous of such an experience and that denies its inherent potentiality as a source of genuine strength.”
Arno Gruen, The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
“The insanity masking itself as normality is fundamentally different from what is usually meant by that word; therefore, we need to reformulate the concept of insanity. Schizophrenia--the "recognizable" form of insanity-needs to be seen from a completely different perspective: namely, as the struggle against a much more portentous kind of insanity, one that has the semblance of normality. Here, again, we get a sense of the difficulty of my approach: we are all taken in by the outer appearance of normality, since, under the pressures of our upbringing, we have lost contact with what lies behind this facade.”
Arno Gruen, The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
Erich Fromm explains the whole problem with our society in 42 seconds
Luigi Mangione’s attorney “shows” reporters how much evidence there is against his client
If they don't have more than a few tweets ...
“This is an insult to the intelligence of the American people”
Luigi Mangione
“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
Frank Zappa
P.A.I.N. Propaganda And Information Network