Those essential services, the doctors nurses shopkeepers farmers truckers, plus we the people sitting at home playing with themselves or each other while connected to the global brain via the Internet – that IS the economy now. It might be hard enough to save that economy, so let’s stop talking about the abstract beast ‘economy’ which was nothing but an upward redistribution scheme selling the masses fake happiness to compensate for their fake work.
Prose
Narrative writings: essays, reviews, polemics, short stories, etc
== BREAKING NEWS ==
Currently, there is a new virus outbreak originating in the United States. The scientific name of the virus is MOFO45. Precautions include: being nice to each other, reading books, and in severe cases applying a WHO-approved mouthwash.
Laughs
Corporate Social Responsibility also means: to manufacture the kind of desires in your customers that don’t lead to the degradation of the ecosystem.
Activism
Profit maximization is a ‘clean’, strong forcing idea, i.e. one that allows for the abstraction from local context. It binds human actions together in a social structure that proves very hard to disentangle. Communal welfare cannot abstract from life in this way. The internal motivation hinges on local outcomes and thus erodes, leading either to societal collapse or suppression, which represent more primitive forcing ideas, namely following orders and immediate survival.
Philosophy
“Can I talk to a real computer please?”
Culturally, the watershed moment will be when people begin to prefer AI over other people. Only if and when that happens, will there be something like a 4th industrial revolution – a revolution that ultimately overcomes homo sapiens itself. From: Kamiel Choi, our last century.
Philosophy
It’s not about what you do. It’s about what you don’t do because of it.
Philosophy
whatever can be explained by inertia shouldn’t be explained by a conspiracy
Philosophy
Is literary writing the art of making cultivated loneliness feel like engaging conversation?
Philosophy
“A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful form; they resemble each other and there is nothing easier than to mistake one for the other.”
From: The Joke by Milan Kundera
Philosophy
There are more things between foreplay and orgasm, fellatio, than dreamt of in your philosophies.
Laughs
All that energy that could be used to work together to improve the human condition, goes to competing for hungry eyeballs.
Activism
