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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

And here we have a typical specimen exhibiting capitalist realism: Observe how the subject is analysing everything they come across on a "who works for who" basis, projecting human modes of production onto the universe. Applying it, even in vain, this reductive universality ensures that they will never think beyond it and, not thinking beyond it, not question either working for a capitalist or being a capitalist who is worked for, thereby in either case working for capitalism, a form of human cooperation in which happiness, well-being, yes even human connection (that necessitating eye-level communication) is traded for hastened advancement of the economy to achieve post-scarcity.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

9 points out of 10, very good. Except that capitalism doesn't want to ever achieve post-scarcity. They're a dog chasing a car, without scarcity and demand their profit streams dry up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Hence why post-scarcity is the natural death point of capitalism.

Your question is essentially the same as Freudians arguing among themselves about the existence of a death drive: How could it possibly benefit the individual? If it can't in some way benefit the individual, how can it be a drive? How does it mesh with the pleasure principle? The answer is simple: It doesn't benefit the individual. In certain circumstances it benefits the genome, that's why us seed-pods can, in certain circumstances, enter states in which it is pleasurable.

And all-encompassing and all-powerful, indeed, religious, as capitalism may seem right now it, too, is a seed pod. It does not have to will its abolishment to bring about the material conditions abolishing it.

Of course there's also nothing speaking against it not making things unduly nasty for us. But that's mere politics, not fate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Class war: wheat vs humanity

Don't even get me started on cats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I suspect cats. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9756-toxoplasmosis

one of the many reasons to keep your cats indoors.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Fool. Allow me to show you truth: https://timecube.xyz/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eris help us, the zoomers are here with lame humour.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's not humour, it's postmodern political theory.

Have you read any postmodern theory? Check out cyborg feminism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried not being a cabbage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I'm not hip to all this gen z slang. Can you explain?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gen Z my sides that's pre-boomer stuff. You're like 100-200 years behind the curve on absurdism and you're not even doing it well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I don't understand old people slang, can you explain?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No. Consult your pineal gland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My pineal gland says you're being annoying on purpose

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That observation is true, false, meaningless, and meaningful.