Our simulators have taken to testing how far they can push those of us in the simulation before we abandon the hegemonic perspective that all this is real
But imagine how owned you’ll be when someone Tweets out the page of your manifesto where you explain that you had to move to the woods of Montana and become a terrorist because too many people had silly names
That's precisely the problem. It doesn't change how most people view the world - so, in the core of empire, it becomes a way for the 'end-of-history' mindset to perpetuate further into the 21st century. It's an ideological adaptation, if you will. Capitalist Realism needs a defense against the absurdity it has created for itself, and simulation theory fits the niche.
I mean it's not an idea that implies everything is ok, it's a functionally neutral proposition. It's basically the techbro way of saying "yeah but this could all be a dream dude."
Like yes, it could. But like, so? There was never any guarantee of an external reality in the first place, that doesn't mean you just check out of life.
It's an idea that lets the middle class be ok with everything not being ok - "Gosh, things sure are crazy! Like a buggy computer simulation, you never know what will happen next. I half expect Representative Silly Name to clip through the floor! And the McDonalds cashier just gave the exact same greeting to everyone who walked through the door - like a glitch in The Matrix!"
Meanwhile, Senator Silly Name has just introduced legislation to classify drone strike data till the end of time, and the McCashier is trying to balance a six day work week and chronic insomnia.
Think it's more an avenue than a cause. Solipsistic self-obsession and observation of the absurdity of the world as random is always the case for individualistic people who benefit from the organized violence of the world but do not wish to acknowledge it. Now they just say it's a computer instead of a gnostic puzzle. It does piss me off though because it fundamentally doesn't make more sense than not. Assume there's a layer over us that's more complex, that changes nothing because I'll never perceive it. We're still just as real in any meaningful sense as we would be if there was nothing above us, laws dictate our lives whether programmed by random luck of the draw, God, or some nerd with a universe coder. I feel from a set list whether set by evolution or some artist. Assume there's a layer of the same complexity, then this is identical to that level and we're just as real as they are.
Our simulators have taken to testing how far they can push those of us in the simulation before we abandon the hegemonic perspective that all this is real
But imagine how owned you’ll be when someone Tweets out the page of your manifesto where you explain that you had to move to the woods of Montana and become a terrorist because too many people had silly names
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DL-EiUYVwAEf7Os.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-9aKClXoA0L25H.jpg
Also cop Derek Chauvin and State Department functionary Anne-Marie Slaughter.
:joker-troll:
Karen Swallow Prior is one of my personal favorites
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Chief of Police for Goiás, Brazil
His daughter seems to take after her father https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg877g/brazilian-prosecutor-accused-of-spreading-nazi-propaganda-facebook
:geordi-yes: accepting oneself as a subject of History, molded by and molding the conditions of the world
:geordi-no: it's just a simulation, guys! non if it really matters!
People who think simulation theory changes something about their lives have a very peculiar epistemology that I'll never understand.
That's precisely the problem. It doesn't change how most people view the world - so, in the core of empire, it becomes a way for the 'end-of-history' mindset to perpetuate further into the 21st century. It's an ideological adaptation, if you will. Capitalist Realism needs a defense against the absurdity it has created for itself, and simulation theory fits the niche.
I mean it's not an idea that implies everything is ok, it's a functionally neutral proposition. It's basically the techbro way of saying "yeah but this could all be a dream dude."
Like yes, it could. But like, so? There was never any guarantee of an external reality in the first place, that doesn't mean you just check out of life.
It's an idea that lets the middle class be ok with everything not being ok - "Gosh, things sure are crazy! Like a buggy computer simulation, you never know what will happen next. I half expect Representative Silly Name to clip through the floor! And the McDonalds cashier just gave the exact same greeting to everyone who walked through the door - like a glitch in The Matrix!"
Meanwhile, Senator Silly Name has just introduced legislation to classify drone strike data till the end of time, and the McCashier is trying to balance a six day work week and chronic insomnia.
I don't know comrade, it kind of sounds like you're making up people to get mad at
Perhaps!
Think it's more an avenue than a cause. Solipsistic self-obsession and observation of the absurdity of the world as random is always the case for individualistic people who benefit from the organized violence of the world but do not wish to acknowledge it. Now they just say it's a computer instead of a gnostic puzzle. It does piss me off though because it fundamentally doesn't make more sense than not. Assume there's a layer over us that's more complex, that changes nothing because I'll never perceive it. We're still just as real in any meaningful sense as we would be if there was nothing above us, laws dictate our lives whether programmed by random luck of the draw, God, or some nerd with a universe coder. I feel from a set list whether set by evolution or some artist. Assume there's a layer of the same complexity, then this is identical to that level and we're just as real as they are.
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