My idea of today is typewriters, limited editions and local printers, bookshops, coffeehouses and libraries. Borrowing a leaf from the vinyl renaissance.
In terms of your other point, I completely agree and unfortunately the "smarter" an individual believes they are, the harder it is for them to accept they've been scammed. We see this everyday in terms of anyone grocery shopping or consuming MSM who isn't aware of the behind the scenes manipulation. Try pointing out the basics and people look at you like a martian speaking another language. A few years ago I read somewhere that intelligent people are also ironically easier to manipulate. But smart is where the party is, as intelligence at some point comes back to bite one in the ass as many intelligent people discover humility and have doubts, while smarty-pants have the ego syndrome of mediocrity overestimating itself.
Also, another thing I've noticed is here in the West we completely missed the concept of the ego we find in the East. Some of it was remedied by Freud (id) and Jung (Shadow), but few do the inner work as it's alien to our philosophies of daily living (and Freud being discredited doesn't help with the other interesting ideas). It's a shame we don't have a common thread of ideas we all pass through which incorporates ideas on ego, self, interior dialogue, etc. I think these would help mediocre intelligence people be more grounded.
Lol your idea of today is what I'm actually building towards, I'm planning a couple of posts along the lines of an "analog resistance", but that also leverages legacy digital frameworks, P2P culture and piracy &c.
Excellent reflection. Yeah, huge vulnerabilities, but maybe "smart's where the party is" anyhow. Although I tend to think that every human being is a genius, and we just happen to be stuck in a few simple games that promote certain personality and intelligence types.
Yeah, and in large part, the functioning of our system is predicated upon this myopic approach to the self (and the lack of silent reflection). We've foisted upon us a reductionist notion of the self as both one-dimensional and simplistic as well as something radically disconnected from the world -- and this is certainly an auxiliary ideology if the economic system.
I know (have studied the literature) it's fashionable to divide us by IQ and other metrics, yet at the same time we all have access to consciousness and we all have skills. As a social order it's convenient to hammer home the belief that because we appear less than on one [set of] metric, therefore, we can never be xyz. And this is a shame because while it's undoubtedly true we're all different, it's also true no one has the same set of characteristics, and therefore everyone could potentially develop extraordinarily, if promoted and galvanized. Instead we do our best to dumb everyone down and reduce people in the aggregate to automatons doing useless actions (jobs, consumerism, materialism, etc), which if we step back, life's about a lot more than all this modern junk.
Man that Maria Elena Milagro photo is so Tell Tale Heart come to life. if i wasn't decoupling from the internet so fast i'd use her face as my avatar. it MEANS something and i can't figure it out. i've been fascinated since i first read this the other day.
there was a movie awhile back about irish miners and an accident takes many of the men out. one miner's wife gets her husband's body and cuts off his penis and puts it in a jar out of rage for what they did to her man.
an animal show about a leopard mother in such deep mourning at the death of her child, she drags the corpse around for weeks as it decays.
when my own beloved man of 26 years died a little over a year ago, i sat with his body waiting for the mortuary to arrive in the afternoon to give me time to be with him. when they took him away i'd wished i could cut off his penis and put it in a jar.
but i knew that was insane.
and i was in hell enough from my landlord so i didn't want new hassles.
but i understood the tales of the ducks who go insane when a partner dies.
so yeah.. something unspoken but known deep deep down when even our rotting corpses aren't ugly because there's so much else going on...
My idea of today is typewriters, limited editions and local printers, bookshops, coffeehouses and libraries. Borrowing a leaf from the vinyl renaissance.
In terms of your other point, I completely agree and unfortunately the "smarter" an individual believes they are, the harder it is for them to accept they've been scammed. We see this everyday in terms of anyone grocery shopping or consuming MSM who isn't aware of the behind the scenes manipulation. Try pointing out the basics and people look at you like a martian speaking another language. A few years ago I read somewhere that intelligent people are also ironically easier to manipulate. But smart is where the party is, as intelligence at some point comes back to bite one in the ass as many intelligent people discover humility and have doubts, while smarty-pants have the ego syndrome of mediocrity overestimating itself.
Also, another thing I've noticed is here in the West we completely missed the concept of the ego we find in the East. Some of it was remedied by Freud (id) and Jung (Shadow), but few do the inner work as it's alien to our philosophies of daily living (and Freud being discredited doesn't help with the other interesting ideas). It's a shame we don't have a common thread of ideas we all pass through which incorporates ideas on ego, self, interior dialogue, etc. I think these would help mediocre intelligence people be more grounded.
Lol your idea of today is what I'm actually building towards, I'm planning a couple of posts along the lines of an "analog resistance", but that also leverages legacy digital frameworks, P2P culture and piracy &c.
Excellent reflection. Yeah, huge vulnerabilities, but maybe "smart's where the party is" anyhow. Although I tend to think that every human being is a genius, and we just happen to be stuck in a few simple games that promote certain personality and intelligence types.
Yeah, and in large part, the functioning of our system is predicated upon this myopic approach to the self (and the lack of silent reflection). We've foisted upon us a reductionist notion of the self as both one-dimensional and simplistic as well as something radically disconnected from the world -- and this is certainly an auxiliary ideology if the economic system.
Totally agree.
I know (have studied the literature) it's fashionable to divide us by IQ and other metrics, yet at the same time we all have access to consciousness and we all have skills. As a social order it's convenient to hammer home the belief that because we appear less than on one [set of] metric, therefore, we can never be xyz. And this is a shame because while it's undoubtedly true we're all different, it's also true no one has the same set of characteristics, and therefore everyone could potentially develop extraordinarily, if promoted and galvanized. Instead we do our best to dumb everyone down and reduce people in the aggregate to automatons doing useless actions (jobs, consumerism, materialism, etc), which if we step back, life's about a lot more than all this modern junk.
Relevant study on intelligence and compliance.
https://clausr2020.substack.com/p/disciplined-minds-make-great-pandemic
Man that Maria Elena Milagro photo is so Tell Tale Heart come to life. if i wasn't decoupling from the internet so fast i'd use her face as my avatar. it MEANS something and i can't figure it out. i've been fascinated since i first read this the other day.
I have quite the same feeling. I can't wrap my head around it, but it means something all right.
Check out Polanyi's notion of tacit knowledge by the way. There's something there even though it can't be immediately articulated nor clearly seen.
interesting. i looked it up.
there was a movie awhile back about irish miners and an accident takes many of the men out. one miner's wife gets her husband's body and cuts off his penis and puts it in a jar out of rage for what they did to her man.
an animal show about a leopard mother in such deep mourning at the death of her child, she drags the corpse around for weeks as it decays.
when my own beloved man of 26 years died a little over a year ago, i sat with his body waiting for the mortuary to arrive in the afternoon to give me time to be with him. when they took him away i'd wished i could cut off his penis and put it in a jar.
but i knew that was insane.
and i was in hell enough from my landlord so i didn't want new hassles.
but i understood the tales of the ducks who go insane when a partner dies.
so yeah.. something unspoken but known deep deep down when even our rotting corpses aren't ugly because there's so much else going on...
Fuck, so the book of genocide, err, Joshua, not the ultimate scam? The federal reserve? Rothschilds? PT Barnum? Opium Wars? White Malice?
Fucking Parkinson's and Paraquiat?
And old Eddy Bernays is now a fucking army.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulokirk/p/equivocation-false-balance-what-about?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319
The scam is the true face of capitalism. The scam is as close to reality as we're going to come in this simulation.
But in the end, it is a war against children:
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/every-war-is-a-war-against-children