babyfinland posted:
i taught myself guitar
now piano.
banjo is much more respectable than guitar
fascinating essay, impper. have you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization ? i havent, but it seems obvious that what you're talking about is a sort of revolution that spills the excess that psychiatry attempts to repress
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drwhat posted:
this made me actually go read the OP (i hadn't, because when i originally found this thread it was very late / early)
it's interesting to think of all the non-capitalist modes of social organization as just accidents, random ideas chopped up and taped together by poetic revolutionaries whose only real foundational concepts were that "things are wrong and they must become different". it's a lot harder to conceive of them as horrific threats to our beloved way of life that way though
what makes you think capitalism has any foundational concepts
gawd i cant wait to be a strange and cruel weirdo irl
Impper posted:drwhat posted:
this made me actually go read the OP (i hadn't, because when i originally found this thread it was very late / early)
it's interesting to think of all the non-capitalist modes of social organization as just accidents, random ideas chopped up and taped together by poetic revolutionaries whose only real foundational concepts were that "things are wrong and they must become different". it's a lot harder to conceive of them as horrific threats to our beloved way of life that way thoughwhat makes you think capitalism has any foundational concepts
what
capitalism is either a definable historical era or a defined system of social organization. its something we made up, not some strange dark looming shape in the sky.
a strange dark looming shape is probably the best way there is to describe the modern era
lol who still has a facebook account?
my whole family uses profiles.pornotube.com
my whole family uses profiles.pornotube.com
we're all transexuals living amidst transeconomics and eating our transcereal.
"If there is to be a revolution in our approach to governmental structure, there must first be a revolution in the way we game." - Reggie Fils-Aime