Like Burroughs, Spinoza shows that, far from being an aberrant condition, addiction is the standard state for human beings, who are habitually enslaved into reactive and repetitive behaviors by frozen images (of themselves and the world).
Mark Fisher
'Capitalist Realism'
Passages in a tower. Marvelous (and very calm) work by Egbert van der Poel of Delft, who tended more toward catastrophe. He was born on this day in 1621..
It has been argued that we moderns have debased the concept of the Hero, preferring to create the Celebrity, whose claim to be famous is founded on his being well-known: a closed circle.
John Brunner
'Out of my Mind'
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I think about this a lot
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
a group of figures confronting the sun headline reads It's a Beautiful Day to Yell At God the figures are saying WHAT THE FUCK? COME OUT! WE JUST WANNA TALK! FACE US YOU COWARD
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a photo of JG Ballard
“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.”
—JG Ballard
Foucault famously observes there that there is no need for the place of surveillance to actually be occupied. The effect of not knowing whether you will be observed or not produces an introjection of the surveillance apparatus.
Mark Fisher
'Capitalist Realism'
supernatural
“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking
Not a victory is gained, not a deed of faithfulness or courage is done, except upon a maybe . . .
William James
'Is Life Worth Living?'
Writing has never been capitalism’s thing. Capitalism is profoundly illiterate.
Deleuze and Guattari
'Anti-Oedipus'
Nonception
If I had a million dollars, I would never chill again
By common understanding an affluent society is one in which all the people’s wants are easily satisfied; and though we are pleased to consider this happy condition the unique achievement of industrial civilization, a better case can be made for hunters and gatherers
M D Sahlins
'Tribesman'
The ‘realism’ here is analogous to the deflationary perspective of a depressive who believes that any positive state, any hope, is a dangerous illusion.
Mark Fisher
'Capitalist Realism'
'Allow yourself to be humbled daily'
Neil Degrasse Tyson
“Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.” — Pancho Villa
An analysis of historical society, with five or six thousand years of exploitation of the majority by a ruling minority, shows very clearly that the dominance-submission psychology is an adaptation to the social order, and not its cause.
Erich Fromm
'Anatomy of Human Destructiveness'
Hunting-gathering bands differ more completely from the apes in this matter of dominance... There is no peck-order based on physical dominance at all, nor is there any superior-inferior ordering based on other sources of power...
Erich Fromm
'Anatomy of Human Destructiveness'
“To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.”
Aristotle
Our biographies are not written in books. They are written in our minds and memories, especially the Key Lives, which are handed down as fresh as they were once lived by our greatest leaders….
But they are dead, and I am alone.
Henry Kuttner
'Mutants'
If you can remember, worry, or tie your shoe, you can succeed.
Maxwell Maltz
'Psycho-Cybernetics'
questioner: how do we treat others? Ramana Maharshi: There are no others, words over a bird on a hand by a foggy lake
Prophet Noble Drew Ali would teach that race was a fiction, and that the only race was the human race.
Jacob S Dorman
'The Princess and the Prophet'
"Washburn’s argument regarding the ease with which boys can be interested in hunting, fighting, and games of war ignores the fact that boys can be easily induced to any kind of pattern that is culturally accepted."
Erich Fromm
'Anatomy of Human Destructiveness'
Do we know what hotel chains are hosting ICE & CBP in Minneapolis?
It's wild that business schools don't teach "There are still people who don't buy Volkswagons bc of World War 2."
But there's no time like the present for a refresher, I guess.
... minds exist in patterns of activity, but those patterns are a lot less “portable” than people often suppose; they are tied to a particular kind of physical and biological basis.
Peter Godfrey-Smith
'Metazoa'
'internet archive is tracking you online' internet archive can come into my house and steal all my chairs for all i care
