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00:00:00 Intro
00:10:27 A brief history of the present
00:19:03 HELP
00:25:09 The Pharmacop*rnographic Era
00:33:56 Market Fetishism
00:44:32 Dysphoria Mundi
00:57:11 ENOUGH
good ass effort post i thought, using brat to discuss the current social landscape
It reminds me of cripplepunk and more radical perspectives of addiction- There's this knee jerk desire to view it as a moral failing when it seems far more radical to me to see being "functional" (aka not needing any of these things, just rawdogging reality etc, being mentally stable or well kempt or productive or whatever) as an arbitrary ableist signifier. Aka the core philosophy of cripplepunk (not caring about being "functional" or a "good disabled"). But I might be overapplying that philosophy here and preventing my own growth. I genuinely don't know. It's so hard to tell the difference between ableism, social criticism, and genuine advice sometimes, because unfortunately even social philosophers are not immune to brainworms and also unfortunately I am not either and this could just be addiction defending
It reminds me of cripplepunk and more radical perspectives of addiction- There's this knee jerk desire to view it as a moral failing when it seems far more radical to me to see being "functional" (aka not needing any of these things, just rawdogging reality etc, being mentally stable or well kempt or productive or whatever) as an arbitrary ableist signifier. Aka the core philosophy of cripplepunk (not caring about being "functional" or a "good disabled"). But I might be overapplying that philosophy here and preventing my own growth. I genuinely don't know. It's so hard to tell the difference between ableism, social criticism, and genuine advice sometimes, because unfortunately even social philosophers are not immune to brainworms and also unfortunately I am not either and this could just be addiction defending