Ronin tech lawyer & wandering scholar. Futurist & scifi writer. Observer of humans. Player of TTRPG games, hater of human social status games.
I do not suffer fools, and I do not suffer rightwing brainrot. Not necessarily here to make friends.
American socialists should make an absolutely obscene and blasphemous satire of Hamilton.
At this point, it's widely known that Hamilton is liberal theology - satirize it the same way Cervantes satirized the feudal system and its so-called chivalry in Don Quixote.
I think americans must be so attached to guns because they're so utterly powerless, helpless, humiliated, and isolated in every other aspect of their existence in their environment.
They are surrounded by real dangers and malignant systems that are built to bite out chunks of them with every interaction.
I don't blame them for feeling that way. I blame them for not doing anything meaningful to the people responsible with all those guns.
I'm now wondering if it was one thing or a bunch of smaller things that set me down this path, but the old accepted wisdom in sociology was that we make compromises in society because it's a better quality of life than the jungle.
That's how I always felt about it: I tolerate society. I'm a 'member' for its services, begrudgingly, and for as long as the contract holds. I suppose, emotionally speaking, I don't "live" in society, not the way others seem to; it seems I'm just passing through.
i'm not sure how to properly convey to someone like that in what way i'm different, but here's an attempt:
you know how you can enter a store, and you sort of have an overall idea (or a specific list) of what you need and what you want?
as in, you are free to pick out anything, as long as you pay for it, and some of that marketing & product placement tries really hard to manipulate your brain into buying it, but you're not actually obligated to buy specific things.
i may have gravely underestimated the actual depths of my difference and alienation from the average, "normal" human. my specific neural makeup, and my resulting apathy (if not downright contempt) for pretty much all the floating opinions of the herd that get put on pedestals and worshipped always isolated me, and i was always aware of this.
but today i learned that humans actually develop a sense of what they find attractive based on what the herd says is attractive. and they just... agree!
i fear we've gotten to such a point of irony-poisoned saturation in general parlance, all for the sake of pandering to normies, that now you've got people who don't differentiate ironic distance from any kind of metacognition done to your own feelings.
what exactly do you people think someone is supposed to do with their feelings if not transmute them - that if they're not wallowing eternally they're being dishonest with themselves?
At the end of the day, COVID-19 made people realize:
- They could work from home and that most offices are shitty places.
- Their job was really shitty.
- Governments could finance pretty much anything they wanted.
- Global warming could be stopped.
- The really important jobs were the ones that are the worst paid (nurses, for instance).
- Most governments are run by idiots, who are in the pocket of the wealthiest.
Parade du Grotesque 💀