https://twitter.com/jeremythunder/status/1448768005488447491?t=lm9kfyRqn0OPk3s6ODbhnA&s=19

https://twitter.com/HugoTheCat3/status/1448859734350696448?t=lm9kfyRqn0OPk3s6ODbhnA&s=19

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I think we might be headbutting a weird grey zone of personal morality and cultural phenomenon that doesn't have an easy answer. People obsess over whatever spectacles exist in the current moment. The entertainment that's given to them is perceived as what's available.

    Someone who has read more Debord or Althusser or someone could probably say what I'm struggling to put into words.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I haven't read those but when you are hyperindividualized and "the protagonist of your own movie" and the hedonic treadmill is robbing you of pleasure, it seems like there's a certain type of person who can only still "get off" by self-inserting themselves as the victim in these stories