“Corporations are getting better and better at seducing us into thinking the way they think—of profits as the telos and responsibility as something to…
“Corporations are getting better and better at seducing us into thinking the way they think—of profits as the telos and responsibility as something to be enshrined in symbol and evaded in reality. Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making. We cannot stop it. I suspect what’ll happen is that there will be some sort of disaster—depression, hyperinflation—and then it’ll be showtime: We’ll either wake up and retake our freedom or we’ll fall apart utterly. Like Rome—conqueror of its own people.”
| — | David Foster Wallace, The Pale King |
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mmmmmmm so twitchy
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i'm sorry has anyone posted any sweet gifs to this thread yet? that flash? because i'm still bored as shit
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DUDE, CHILL
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the thing is that ironic dismissal is probably the most potent form of communication/self-image our people have--i.e. "lol who cares"/"dude....chill"
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as long as i have pretty images i don't give a shit about this
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noh has always been a bit...robotic. like human puppets.
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this is prob the truest expression of the gods anyway
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this really is worth listening to all the way to the end:
http://moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/136/1178
has been considered dance for a century:
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/3no2/Papers/Steve%20Dixon.htm
is this considered dance? does one need to be organic to dance? what do u think Z?
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perhaps this urban dictionary definition of angst can help anything:
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Feeling of sadness or depression, usually felt in the teen years. The whole depression thing isn't really helped by the fact that almost all rock music (the music most angsty people I know listen to,) is aout NOTHING BUT being depressed, or contemplating suicide. But a lot of angsty teens listen anyway, because they think that they can relate to super rich adult celebrities.
Music: Suffocation, no breathing, don't give a f*ck if I cut my arms bleeding...
Angsty teen: Oh Papa Roach...you know how…
perhaps this urban dictionary definition of angst can help anything:
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Feeling of sadness or depression, usually felt in the teen years. The whole depression thing isn't really helped by the fact that almost all rock music (the music most angsty people I know listen to,) is aout NOTHING BUT being depressed, or contemplating suicide. But a lot of angsty teens listen anyway, because they think that they can relate to super rich adult celebrities.
Music: Suffocation, no breathing, don't give a f*ck if I cut my arms bleeding...
Angsty teen: Oh Papa Roach...you know how I feel...
Papa roach: *enjoying a giant swimming pool at a resort somewhere*"
pretty images!!!!!!! this is what i'm talking about simon this made my whole day.
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some might say shadows are pessimistic, but I'm with you, T. shadows are beautiful. they hide--we imagine. imagining could be labeled as being optimistic, but I think creativity is multivalent. some of the best work we do is simply by taking things away.
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shadow is beautiful. as are bodies. what more could anyone want?
I don't exactly buy the cultural optimism part. that's just the stance of late stage capitalism. it has to imagine ever-ascending curves of awesomeness. then it borrows against that. every capitalist i know is an optimist. no other way to make money.
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How is this optimistic? they are spiraling in doom toward utter personal destruction. As is anyone else in a relationship.
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i dunno if you read books but i'm reading "hyperspace" by michio kaku that's pretty great, only without all the conspiracy/afterlife crap
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sticky [good] fake; i read half of another article about aliens fixing the deep horizon spill after the experiments write up.
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I know this wasn't meant for me, Z, but I'm calling it: FAKE.
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I really like this site, it has a creepy insistence and energy to it...
Believe believe believe
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working on getting sexy and itneresting into my mission statement
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Je te le parlais n'importe quand, ma cherie.
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<3 ur french simon
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"SEXY"
jk. I'm all for sex in the woods but I don't see how it gains the attention of anyone longer than it takes to ejaculate. 'Scuse mon francais.
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si what'd you think of my last post?
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Q uses scare quotes for fear of disrupting the copyright of the word "interesting," used by theatre goers after they see mediocre work for centuries. that copyright will never go out of date.
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"i got some" -- what Saul says sometimes, apparently. :-P
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&these were favs of ppl i talked to a while ago; i got some
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but how do you deploy it?
just link to chat?
http://dump.fm/chat
http://dump.fm/chat
http://dump.fm/chat
these are rly just animations that come up in a simple gif img search saul. dump is so much more than that ddarling. its people and feelings and collaboration and love!
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dump is a floating repository of:
it's ok if this post is relegated to da bottom, but plz throw up dump material here...there's something about dump and it's...
v and calvin it's your thing: take it away&up
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god dammit is this a fake photo?
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Marx has no interest in helping any of us.
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"To paraphrase Karl Marx, history does repeat itself but not exactly, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. But what about the third and fourth and fifth times?"
truisms suck... from whats written down seems like the clean slate allows for originality and even if it doesn't does creative fatalism help anything?
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photoshop source material -->
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fuck growth status quo is where it's at
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this is 2 real!!! im getting scared!! simon plz com weather w/ me!
Was HAARP around in the 1950's?!?! http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/punch_feels_like_all_over_again_Y6Wvtj7FP8viCujlbbc1RN
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