Most based sentences in history?
>>25319838>television is for niggers
>>25319838This feels like someone sitting on a bench at the beach desperately trying to think of something to write about within the theme of the downfall of civilization, not being able to think of shit until a jogger randomly passes by them and they go "That's it!". Like a comicstrip writer getting a line of sight idea.Any retard who has a coronary about inane bullshit like this is best unread and unheard, they run on affected fakedeep platitudes.
>>25320140This thread is about retarded "eurekas!" that would resonate the spirit of a misanthropic middle schooler. Didn't you read the title?
>>25319838I still don't understand what Baudrillard meant by this, and no one has been able to explain to me. I think at some point he just gave up trying to make sense and wrote whatever he felt like, which is what 'America'—a bunch of notes.
>>25320202what's the point of trying to make sense if everything has, according to baudrillard, dissolved into simulacrum anyway? he was very much like foucault in attitude during his later years.
>>25319838>sentenceNah, you get a page
>>25320219This is written in an insufferably childish contemporary way that is somehow even more annoying than the people it is talking about. Also every big city is like this. This might as well be about NYC or São Paulo or Tokyo or any metropolis.
>>25320224It feels like it's written by someone who hasn't read more than 30 books in his life, 12 of them being Stephen King.I still think it's funny.
>>25320228What is this passage from anyway? Feels like one of these retarded /pol/ books this board shills sometimes
>>25319838This is complete garbage. Borderline gibberish.
>>25320236Learn to write, retard, that's the longest fucking sentence of all fucking times.
>>25320248ok fascist
>>25320258Now that's much better.
>>25320236How do free-market worshipers cope seeing that the US government partnered with AI and hardware companies to further kill people in the third world and spy on its own citizens much Germany did?
>>25320219>people enjoy thingsSweet jesus no
>>25320140You sound like you've lost the sensuality for life and will likely write nothing of note yourself. Attributing thoughts and motives to a person you've never met that wrote something somewhat funny. It's not that serious, faggot.
>>25320261You learn in like Day-1 of How to be a Lolbertarian that they don't see megacorporations in the US as being part of the free market since they use forced interactions from the state towards the small and medium entrepreneur to obtain oligarchic control of the market. Whether or not libertarians and ancaps are right or you think they're retarded, they have never had inconsistencies about this, the average retard just thinks thye do.
>>25320261>US government partnered with AI and hardware companies to further kill people in the third worldbased>and spy on its own citizens much Germany did?cringecouldn't give two shits from a rat's ass about the former but the latter is troubling. It's also neat knowing that all our shitposts are that important.
>>25319838> So, leaving them with execrations, and disguising himself in a servant’s dress, hiring a carriage with Quintus Cassius, [Antony] went straight away to Cæsar, declaring at once, when they reached the camp, that affairs at Rome were conducted without any order or justice, that the privilege of speaking in the senate was denied the tribunes, and that he who spoke for common fair dealing was driven out and in danger of his life.>Upon this, Cæsar set his army in motion, and marched into Italy; and for this reason it is that Cicero writes in his Philippics, that Antony was as much the cause of the civil war, as Helen was of the Trojan. But this is but a calumny. For Cæsar was not of so slight or weak a temper as to suffer himself to be carried away, by the indignation of the moment, into a civil war with his country, upon the sight of Antony and Cassius seeking refuge in his camp, meanly dressed and in a hired carriage, without ever having thought of it or taken any such resolution long before. This was to him, who wanted a pretense of declaring war, a fair and plausible occasion; but the true motive that led him was the same that formerly led Alexander and Cyrus against all mankind, the unquenchable thirst of empire, and the distracted ambition of being the greatest man in the world, which was impracticable for him, unless Pompey were put down.
>>25320275>they don't see megacorporations in the US as being part of the free market since they use forced interactions from the state towards the small and medium entrepreneur to obtain oligarchic control of the market.Is this not a contradiction?
>>25320281They only perceive voluntary interactions as being part of the free market, any forced interactions from the state, say, Billionaires lobbying for regulations that make it costly and impossible for the small and medium competition to produce cars, for example, is the arm of the state being used legally to forcefully remove someone from the economy. In a way it's a bit like "real communism has never been tried", but with "real capitalism" instead.
>sentence Anyway, here's a great passage from Heart of Darkness. The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomedto look upon the shackled form of a conqueredmonster, but there—there you could look at a thingmonstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the menwere—– No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know,that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their notbeing inhuman. It would come slowly to one. Theyhowled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces;but what thrilled you was just the thought of theirhumanity—like yours—the thought of your remotekinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly.Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enoughyou would admit to yourself that there was in you justthe faintest trace of a response to the terrible franknessof that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaningin it which you—you so remote from the night of firstages—could comprehend. And why not? The mind ofman is capable of anything—because everything is init, all the past as well as all the future. What was thereafter all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage—who can tell?—but truth—truth stripped of its cloak oftime. Let the fool gape and shudder—the man knows,and can look on without a wink.
>>25320273>you've lost the sensuality for life>has a conniption after seeing a jogger passing by>Attributing thoughts and motives to a person you've never met that wrote something somewhat funny.Yea, it's called a joke, you autist. It's a hyperbolic way to illustrate that Baudrillard is taking shit that isn't serious way too serious, or you autistic tylenol babies take pleasure in sounding like you've never talked to another human being. Take your own advice, it's not that serious, faggot.
>>25320290I'm saying there is no conniption from having seen the jogger. He's making a funny observation that you took as angrily mocking. A classic case of projection, just like the ineffective slew of insults you just threw my way.
>>25320277Ever heard of the Imperial Boomerang? If it happens overseas, it'll eventually spread here.
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>>25320305Not even relevant to our discussion.
>>25319838it's always funny to me when intellectuals seethe about people that enjoy exercise
>>25320306The point is that even dressed through hyperbolics Baudrillard's point is still the same fakedeep drivel that every Brian Griffin uses to paint any little beat of consumerism in american society as the end of the world. It's "your uncle on facebook" worthy.
>>25320308Road bicyclists deserve it though.
>>25320308I say this as a jogger that Buadrillard writing about jogging and exercise is both spot on and hilarious. This is from his book "America" which is basically his travel journal of aphoristic piss taking. It's fucking hilarious.
>>25320390wow this is baudrillard? i thought this was some mediocre hunter s thompson rip off. jesus
A /sci/ classic.
>>25320477>The thread has finally begun
>>25319838>The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes [End of page 354] structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
Baudrillard was a fat retarded faggot. No wonder he despised the physically able.
>>25319838Kek this place made me think the pic was euphemistically referring to nigs in the first sentence.
>>25320581There is no God.
>>25320219Awful, disgusting prose
