#1
#2
mods please sticky this thread
#3
Front page
#4
the other day i ran into a guy who was walking a dog that was a mix between a corgi and an aussie cattle dog/blue heeler and the more i think of it the more sure i am that thats the perfect dog for me. unfortunately he told me he paid $750 to a breeder for it and thats just Wrong.
#5
very fetching bandana, who is this guy's tailor
#6
We anticipate a criticism of this moving image as analogy for the action of the still-developing consciousness and capabilities of the youth of the masses and, in kind, that of the vanguard of Marxism-Leninism. The dog helps the child attain the ball, the object of mutual desire, not selflessly, but in its own interests: it wishes to play the game of fetch. But the child cannot yet understand or play the game, nor recognize its own existence within the game's arena; it is not yet capable of the task, nor of understanding that, or why, either human or dog would wish it performed. Therefore, it may seem, the dog is foolish, and its desires deluded and misguided, oriented toward ends the child will not pursue. This is an forgivable if incorrect conclusion, at least before scientific thought has been applied.

We invite critics to investigate the apparent and true material reality of the event. The child wishes to hold the ball, to explore it, manipulate it and claim it as its possession for a time, as the immediate object of the child's desire. The dog recognizes, not just the current state of the child, but its potential: the child is human, possessing human characteristics. The dog understands that humans must drive the game of fetch, that the capability for fetch sits within them, and though the dog may enjoy fetch and anticipate that enjoyment, the ball must be thrown in order to be fetched. Until the human's arrival within the scope of the dog's existence, only activity that would come to anticipate fetch was known to it, both as an individual dog and as a class, or more accurately, as a species. Both individual and species have been shaped by this mutual activity, fetch, and its process in history, in potential as much as in kinetic reality.

The dog understands all it must understand of this to the degree of which it is capable, through its knowledge of history and its own capacity and desire, developed within it by human individuals capable of playing fetch. History demonstrates that humans, having obtained the ball, will tend to throw the ball, should desire exist and conditions permit; the dog will fetch the ball so that it may be thrown again; the dialectic emerges as the immanent movement of history, the history of desire. The dog cannot necessarily know the state of this human's maturity, the path from its current to future state or the breadth of the river of time that must be forded before fetch is played, but it perceives that if it aids in the now, moving the ball a short distance so that it is within the human's grasp as the human strains for it, and does so where and when it can perceive such desire and the effort that it produces, then at some point in the future, fetch is likely if not guaranteed. It recognizes, that is, the tendency of certain actions under certain conditions to produce predictable results.

Indeed, the dog does not do this out of charity. It, too, desires the ball, but its very actions convey the nature of its desire: not to seize the ball for its own, but to engage the ball, the human, the dog itself and the laws and physicality of the material world in an interplay, a movement in time and space determined by the desire and actions of a human, an effort, a task that signifies, not the end of desire, but its continued and continuous attainment over time: this very game of fetch. The interest is mutual, an interest in which the dog may know, at least in the moment observed, its smaller part before the human knows its greater one; the effort, too, is mutual, but the dog knows the child, the human, must drive the event to come and move the ball that greater, crucial distance that will initiate and sustain the activity. The dog carefully observes and follows the human's desire and its intended path towards it and submits to both to guide its own actions, entrusting the ball's movement to the child, the child's desire for it and the path by which it moves to obtain what it desires.

It is the heart of the matter that the dog does not and cannot know what the human will know—in many ways, it does not and cannot know what the human already knows—but the dog's understanding of the greater capacity afforded the child over the dog is nevertheless correct; further, its knowledge of likely outcomes is correct; thus its actions are correct. As knowledgeable observers from a third vantage point, we know what both dog and child, observed in a captured and eternal sequence of historical moments, cannot: soon, and likely very soon, the child will possess the capacity to play fetch and the desire to play it, again as material conditions allow fetch to be played. Both will obtain the single object of their desire, and in obtaining it, become something more. In truth, the more, more often and more effectively the dog moves the ball that lesser distance, in service to the human's developing capacity to cross the greater, necessary distance, the sooner the human will comprehend what it can achieve with the ball, the dog, the yard, with its own capacity for action—the sooner the moment of fetch will arrive.

It is through the vanguard's trusting, active, anticipatory and helpful submission to the guidance of the masses, not trusting merely in the capacity of the youth of the masses to identify and obtain their desire, but in the effort and direction of effort by which they they seek to obtain it, that their mutual desire shall bear fruit, in far greater part, not because of the vanguard's desire, potential and action, but because of the desire, potential and action of the masses, all maturing before the eyes of the world. Through such correct practice and correct thought that anticipates, supports and propels that practice, the vanguard and the masses will achieve that enduring victory which the bourgeoisie, the present ruler of this our yard, has declared for so long to be impossible, unthinkable, a fool's errand: they will make fetch happen.
#7
[account deactivated]
#8

ghostpinballer posted:

very fetching bandana, who is this guy's tailor



whomst