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Biden brain: “If someone else lost more than me, I am reclassifying myself as a winner. This is what peak bullshit looks like.”
Biden brain: “If someone else lost more than me, I am reclassifying myself as a winner. This is what peak bullshit looks like.”
The ruling classes will continue to spread hate and distraction away from themselves
I would add that the ruling classes will also hoard assets and make access to services (like healthcare, education and transportation) more exclusive and probably prohibitively expensive.
The economics of poor nations are probably what imperial core collapse will resemble.
It’s pretty obvious I would have thought : Organise with other comrades to collectively own and run productive stuff that helps your standards of living. By pooling your resources with others, you get better outcomes. Those who only can contribute their labour will be more productive if they have access to collectively owned tools. They can still trade their labour even if the currency has gone to shit.
Nostalgia is partly an indicator that current environment is so shit that it can’t just be reformed or tweaked to get to a better place. Instead the best solution that people want is to time travel back to before it all took a nosedive and restart from there.
Realist would be WEIGHING the negatives vs the positives. What positives outweigh funding genocide in Gaza?
For Australia, it will be a long slog. The land rights acts getting through parliament that previously were making progress started to dry up about 15 years ago. IMO it was a sign Australian politics was going down the toilet.
Previous acts granted ownership of particular areas to various indigenous land councils. The councils would manage the land and it’s effectively a perpetual lease owned by the indigenous community. So post-revolution, those land rights concepts would have to come back and get expanded further to make decolonization work.
The stone stopped bleeding. You can’t squeeze indefinitely.
Work on your health. I suggest Yoga. Follow-along routines of whatever length you like can be found on YouTube.
Aside from what everyone else has said, the book advice itself is really bad also.
Passive systems like this fog collecting tower save on energy but are large for the amount of water they collect : https://youtu.be/THJVuinPbc0?si=EHnQ_XQvQFvca3VG
Those towers use plastic mesh to collect the fog.
Researchers are working on new materials to collect more water : https://youtu.be/UlTbZ658eWM?si=6Ld8xemTOnAN7L43
There are still many anti-capitalist expressions from gamers and the like, but there are not enough leftist voices to frame them as such inside those communities.
I think another aspect that has occurred recently is capital corporations have cloned the socially progressive talking points of the left.
These concessions to progressive politics to court younger consumers are no challenge to the power of capitalism. Throwing corporate sponsorship at BLM, LGBTQ or environmental organisations still keeps real power in corporate hands. Allowing an amount of dissent and protest in non disruptive forms poses no threat to them (Don’t block a motorway and they’ll let you protest as much as you like).
However it does allow the far right to radicalize the geeks. They can be convinced that the SJWs are their enemy rather than the bosses who adopted some SJW points in the name of progress so business can run as usual. Both “sides” are still just an internal contradiction within capitalism.
But I am afraid of the future. I am afraid that if I start dating her now I end up regretting it later in life.
I suggest enjoy the relationship as it is now rather than imagining how it will be in the future. It’s not like you have proposed so it’s way too early to think about your combined incomes and stuff.
Interesting that you picked up the micro tonal aspects of Non-Western music. Another aspect that’s very complex in Indian music is the rhythmic system.
On Chinese music I think you have oversimplified it somewhat. While it often uses the pentatonic scale, you do see 6 and seven note scales. Plus it actually has 5 different pentatonic scales. Similarly to Indian music there’s ornaments in Chinese musical notation to describe microtones and other effects. And another feature is Chinese traditional music is very elastic in the tempo speeding up or slowing to add emotions. A quick overview :https://youtu.be/sJdUugXLfWs?si=-GfHi0F1bn8b6SyC.
Concerning commodifiable modernization of traditional culture:
I don’t think the West has anything quite like the tv show Pili which is based on Chinese hand puppets but with a crap tonne of camerawork and special effects to added. The show has been around for decades. Only thing close is the Thunderbirds which never looked as crazy as this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGLKJ_S-iDU
I get what you’re saying but I don’t see how American mass media being dominant is a good thing.
A lot of it is just pumped out like widgets, created by a few big corporations, because of a modern appetite for shoving stuff in our eyeballs.
It places people into the role of just being passive consumers but they only have a few big fast food chains to pick from. Then it’s like just looking at the menu, seeing if they introduced a twist on their regular offering or a different sauce you can add to the same shit. An illusion of variety. They’ve gotten good at polishing the glass and wiping down the plastic furniture.
Then your life gets divided into portions that suit the mass media: movie duration, hourish long tv show, half hour show, 3 min pop song. These are formats they have worked out for you.
It’s all formulaic. I would hope that other cultures go BACK to before the formulas were so standardized and start developing from there. Change the formats so people aren’t so passive.
China is just copying the formula because the “demand for bland” is so pervasive.
I really hope they look to other countries for better inspiration. India for example has incredible music and movies.
then comes over to me, opens the bag, closes it, then leaves
That little brat boomed her good. Trolling IRL at its finest.
Get on the bicycle and explore.
You can also volunteer at neighborhood community services: e.g. a lot of older people need help with taking care of gardening or other strenuous chores.
19 Countries with the Most School Shootings (total incidents Jan 2009-May 2018 - CNN):
United States — 288
Mexico — 8
South Africa — 6
Nigeria & Pakistan — 4
Afghanistan — 3
Brazil, Canada, France — 2
Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1
(https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country)
One country seems a bit higher than the others 🤔
“Hype Loop go poof?” That’s all the inside story I need to hear from this douchebag.
I think the youth will take that, grumble about it, dislike it but still be too propagandized and not uncomfortable enough to actually revolt or do anything that threatens the western system or governments.
While I agree with this, the revolt is actually already taking place at the periphery of the US empire. It’s other countries that previously had no choice but to tow the line with US policy. Now they have alternatives. We see the rise of BRICS+ and their influence both politically and economically.
There won’t be a revolution inside the US because there is no political alternatives. The economic side could go to shit and there would still be no actual political change : Maybe the names of the politicians change but the policies are still controlled by corporations and capitalists.
Even if there was a US revolt, there’s no alternative organisation to take control.
The Google bullshit generator is going to burn a lot of go juice before eventually saying “42”.