Forwarding and old rant of mine for new readers because it's still so relevant and it's basically what Slavoj Žižek was on about in that article I linked the other day. #virus
Forwarded from SolarHoboism
I just wanna point out that 80k people died of flu in 2018 in the US and nobody fucking noticed, everyone got it because our work culture is such that a wage worker can't effectively access healthcare and even if they can they typically don't have adequate paid sick leave that they're not going to be hopped up on dayquil and snotting on all the food, product, and cash they handle during the most contagious exponential growth phase of the virus. The only reason Corona is a meme is because news media makes its money selling fear, and the fear is of filthy, overpopulated, bat-soup sipping asians instead of industrialized people with better hygiene than most of us do, especially considering their country has slipped further into an authoritarian state driven by the will of capitalists than we have.
China is our fucking future in the US and short of zoomers actually fucking eating the rich we can look forward to young people in cages coughing as an affordable lifestyle choice for most working citizens, as opposed to just refugees.
China is our fucking future in the US and short of zoomers actually fucking eating the rich we can look forward to young people in cages coughing as an affordable lifestyle choice for most working citizens, as opposed to just refugees.
Forwarded from SolarHoboism
One must consider that biohazard suit memes are fun, but ultimately driven by xenophobic fearmongering not just in the news, but the grassroots (4chan /pol/)
I just got my Žižek article post quoted and FUCK that's a good channel name they suggested:
Posadists were introduced in mention to me by this badass Brazilian outlaw. There's apparently still a following in South America, but it's the most bonkers Marxist splinter group I've ever heard of. They're best know for their enthusiasm for nuclear war and other such global cataclysm - such that governments and economies collapse but humanity, while damaged, is strong and conscious enough that they are able to rebuild a better society.
Beautiful if kooky way of coping with fear during the cold war, but it's also bundled up with other batshit things. UFOlogy - concepts that the species capable of interstellar travel would have to have advanced beyond capitalist societies in the style of Star Trek, and they may very well be avoiding us for that reason.
Other bizarre beliefs held by the Posadists included a fervor for water birthing, dolphin communication, and the belief that humans will ultimately reproduce asexually ‘like amoeba’, curing ‘miserable, abominable sexual excitement’.
The Fallout series of games should explore Posadism. I'm wondering if anyone can think of any examples where they might've already, outside of the little green men with blaster guns.
Beautiful if kooky way of coping with fear during the cold war, but it's also bundled up with other batshit things. UFOlogy - concepts that the species capable of interstellar travel would have to have advanced beyond capitalist societies in the style of Star Trek, and they may very well be avoiding us for that reason.
Other bizarre beliefs held by the Posadists included a fervor for water birthing, dolphin communication, and the belief that humans will ultimately reproduce asexually ‘like amoeba’, curing ‘miserable, abominable sexual excitement’.
The Fallout series of games should explore Posadism. I'm wondering if anyone can think of any examples where they might've already, outside of the little green men with blaster guns.