Ok so today I opened play store after like months of not downloading anything from there cause I needed an ugly proprietary app, and the first thing I see in the home page is this masterpiece. A self help app to make you accept your misery and become a better slave of yourself and ultimately of the capital.

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What the fuck "MANIFEST" means? Are we at a point where magic is a viable option?

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Also hate to say it, but I'm afraid your fitness goals are a bit incompatible, almost as if nothing of this made any sense in the first place

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Ok, read and share quotes, the most subtle way to distort the image of random historical figures to prove your nonexistent point.

WOW!! Really seems like this app has no purpose other than making you feel guilty of your own misery, distracting you from the sistemic problem, other than just eating all your personal data

Ahh I love ranting about these things, thanks for listening to my ted talk

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Manifest

    Like so many horrible, horrible things this started with Oprah

    The Secret popularized the idea that if you just want something real bad it'll come true, then Oprah promoted it on her show. Now, almost twenty years later, countless people think they can just magic their way out of capitalist misery.

    It's like some weird quasi-secular intervention of the saints things. Just pray real hard and god will grant you wishes. I've never bothered to read the accursed thing.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Also; Gonna start a "Daily Zen" app where someone comes around at random times of the day to hit you with a stick until you attain enlightenment.

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      It serves a triple purpose: it gives wealthy people like Oprah a way to justify their "success," while at the same time getting the working class to not only blame themselves for their own failures rather than the vampiric capitalist class (while also allowing the capitalists an avenue for the same thought patterns: "poor people are to blame for their own poverty"), but also be convinced that if they only keep trying with a little more positivity in their hearts, they can write their own Horatio Alger story.

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        Yeah, for me it’s like the double whammy of:

        1. Inequality is natural, because those that have more (or less) are getting what they deserve/earn (re: pseudo-meritocracy)

        2. Inequality is good, because it motivates the poor to work harder and produce/consume more

        And these two points are core to the neoliberal agenda. These kinds of apps (and a lot of “mental health” discourse, whether it comes from “evidence-based” Western psychologists or influencers) are so insidious with how they justify and reinforce neoliberal values

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