everybody knows the real truth, and this is just a collective exercise in denial, is it not...? a psychological quirk, resulting from when we all saw something too traumatic to process all at once, so now we've spent years pretending it's not there and it never happened.
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Magic is always relative to the wisdom of her many victims. Our computers remain the product of a mundane electrical engineering, and have nothing in common with the wondrous automatons that have, in the historical record, been produced by the wise.
As Marxists, we must carefully investigate all technological advance, especially those in computation, and of cybernetics we must be most curious of all.
Computation is at most the symbolic record of the movement of a thought through time. The best an AI can ever do is recording and playing back the process-of-thinking to us, and in the case of large-language-models, this computation produces works that will always pale in comparison to the minds it was trained upon. In spite of any psychic qualities that may be assigned to the electron, our silicon genius can never actually be a Sibelius or a Riemann.
Those fundamental limitations of computers, however, will matter little: the consistent history of the misuse of new computer technologies, by the capitalist powers, for controlling individuals and populations, confirms for us that the repression and social deterioration that we collectively experience will reach unbearable heights in the days to come.
Come, come, I cried, away with these Innovations, and receive my Laws, in the performance of which there will be Ease and Rest.
Dost thou not see how peaceably all my Subjects live under me, that bear my Mark and Name? Who are like them, great in Fame, and mighty through Honour and Riches, which they obtain by observing my Orders and Rules? Which I will give to thee, who would have thee Great in my Principle, and not Despiseable as now thou art.
I. Whereas it is said thou must have no other God but One, and that thou must own him as thy Creator, and none other before him, this I will permit, and thou art not prohibited herefrom: Nevertheless thou art not so strictly tied up here, but that Thou mayest own Subordinate Powers under God, and obey Nature’s Laws for its Self-preservation. This is but equal, and therefore do not slight these Laws, that are founded upon Reason’s bottom, but Sail thou with its Tide...
maybe giant steroid man will turn out to be bad? haha it's so cool knowing the future
gliding on desert waves of fiery void
There's no rule saying that you have to kidnap Zionists only inside Palestine.
You can kidnap Zionists anywhere in the world.
no, unless you're conflating dialectical materialism with a naive kind of literalism which draws a rhetorical circle of non-existence around every kind of abstraction... but still, much of philosophy should be discarded for other reasons.
And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
We're going to need to get ready to throw absolutely everything we have at a worldwide climate revolution. Strife, misery, and death is coming regardless.
it would be best for your friend if you were sincere, honest, and forthright, and helped your friend seek early treatment. avoiding the truth will only leave your friend confused, left in the dark, and in a worse place.
it would be best to be honest and tell them that you feel that they're starting to sound like they're in a prodromal, pre-psychotic mental state, and they need to seek care. anyone suffering from paranoia is going to pick up on any kind of insincerity on your part, real or imagined.
THE BOURGEOIS MIND
What does the word bourgeois actually mean?
It has remained unexplained, though it has been so much used and so often misapplied. Even when superficially used it is a word with a magic power of its own, and its depth has to be fathomed. The word designates a spiritual state, a direction of the soul, a peculiar consciousness of being. It is neither a social nor an economic condition, yet it is something more than a psychological and ethical one—it is spiritual, ontological. In the very depths of his being, or non-being, the bourgeois is distinguishable from the not-bourgeois; he is a man of a particular spirit, or particular soullessness. The state of being bourgeois has always existed in the world, and its immortal image is for ever fixed in the gospels with its equally immortal antithesis, but in the nineteenth century it attained its climax and ruled supreme.
Though the middle-class society of the last century is so spoken of in the superficial social-economic significance of the term, it is bourgeois in a deeper and more spiritual sense. This middle-class mentality ripened and enslaved human society and culture at the summit of their civilization. Its concupiscence is no longer restricted by man’s supernatural beliefs as it was in past epochs, it is no longer kept in bounds by the sacred symbolism of a nobler traditional culture; the bourgeois spirit emancipated itself, expanded, and was at last able to express its own type of life.
But even when the triumph of mediocrity was complete a few deep thinkers denounced it with uncompromising power: Carlyle, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Léon Bloy, Dostoievsky, Leontiev—all foresaw the victory of the bourgeois spirit over a truly great culture, on the ruins of which it would establish its own hideous kingdom.
With prophetic force and fire these men denounced the spiritual sources and foundations of middle-classdom and, repelled by its ugliness, thirsting for a nobler culture, a different life, looked back upon Greece or the middle ages, the Renaissance or Byzantium. Leontiev has stated the problem strikingly: