I remember like 2012 or so and reading something about technocults. As climate change increasingly broke the system, people would cling to a technological solution so hard that they'd form a machine cult to try and transcend reality. At the time I didn't know what that meant. Technology was just kind of the passive background line that goes upper.
Then came /r/futurology and the quest for immortality. Then came cryptocurrency recycling ecosystems into monopoly money that will solve capitalism. Then came Elon Musk nerds and treating billionaires like pharaohs. Each new wave of them became more and more absurd and more of a recuperative effort. The medical innovations of r/futurology were tangible, each new wave of techno-hopium was more abstract and based in spectacle. A decade later and it's this. They're spending thousands of dollars on cartoon animals in the hope that the Jungian archetype of a dumb guy and all of their favourite billionaires replace centuries of political philosophy with slogans. Yang is what it looks like when we're at the event horizon and reality is about to end. Beyond him the technocults will become wholly divorced from it like Qanon did with conspiracy prophesies.
I remember like 2012 or so and reading something about technocults. As climate change increasingly broke the system, people would cling to a technological solution so hard that they'd form a machine cult to try and transcend reality. At the time I didn't know what that meant. Technology was just kind of the passive background line that goes upper.
Then came /r/futurology and the quest for immortality. Then came cryptocurrency recycling ecosystems into monopoly money that will solve capitalism. Then came Elon Musk nerds and treating billionaires like pharaohs. Each new wave of them became more and more absurd and more of a recuperative effort. The medical innovations of r/futurology were tangible, each new wave of techno-hopium was more abstract and based in spectacle. A decade later and it's this. They're spending thousands of dollars on cartoon animals in the hope that the Jungian archetype of a dumb guy and all of their favourite billionaires replace centuries of political philosophy with slogans. Yang is what it looks like when we're at the event horizon and reality is about to end. Beyond him the technocults will become wholly divorced from it like Qanon did with conspiracy prophesies.
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Not even that. Its just code on the blockchain and not the "art" itself. They don't own shit :hahaha:
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I call this "necessary evil" and an NFT is available for $200k. All proceeds will go to drugs.
This is an interesting take. :read-theory: