It's fucking insane how everything went to shit in 2020. I can't believe people really took the Kool aid and sat inside for several years. That shit changed me. I swear every experience with our society at large has made me more bitter and paranoid.
>>542088861BOO HOO
>>542088861It’s a good thing op it means it’s almost over
Everyone expects someone else to do someone about it. But at least I'm not the one eating out at restaurants and paying 25% tips, or subscribing to ten different streaming services, or applying to jobs with five interview stages.
>>542089007*do something
>>542088861Please turn towards the light and open your heart and soul to receive Him. Christ loves you and Christ is King
>>542088861Commodify Your Dissent.>Oh, you want to duck the wave and not go face first to the cheese grater of modern life? We'll see about that!Yeah, fuck you.
>>542088861covid was amazing, I loved watching unchained niggers burn America and their faggot police forces bending their knees to them, total confirmation even for the weaker of those redpilled that everything truly is fake, gay and retarded as fuck.
>>542088861>woe is meTimmy keep losing
>>542088861>I can't believe people really took the Kool aid and sat inside for several yearsI'm going to sit inside the rest of my fucking life, you can suck my dick. Lol
>>542089119Your brown, disgusting skin will always remind people of shit/faeces. Lol. G R I M.
>>542088861OH, YOU FOOKIN ASKT FOR IT NAOW, MF!begin spam transmission:Why does being alone seem to offend people?Because a highly competitive society doesn't merely need you to produce. It needs you to participate in the competition. Win or lose. And it needs the "losers" to remain in the limelight as whipping boys, as bad examples that suffer continually and this give legitimacy to the competitive system. "This is what happens to those who don't play the game!" To make "winners" feel that their own sacrificed life has been well invested. "At least that's not me!"Someone who says:>I don't want to compete. I want a small room, enough food, some books, music, and nobody bothering me.has done something ideologically inconvenient.They haven't necessarily defeated the system. They haven't even necessarily rebelled against it.They've declined its invitation.And that can be more irritating than opposition.A dissident can be incorporated into the system as an opponent: political activist, entrepreneur, artist, intellectual, revolutionary, etc. Those are all recognizable social roles. But the person who says “No, I would actually prefer to be alone” is difficult to turn into a productive participant (or marketable commodity).& There's an even deeper problem: solitude exposes how much of “social necessity” is actually social pressure.If everyone is working 50 hours a week, competing for status, optimizing their appearance, networking, maintaining an online presence, buying things, dating, advertising themselves, and anxiously monitoring everyone else, then the person sitting alone reading Victor Hugo can look almost subversive—not because he's attacking anyone, but because he's demonstrating that another allocation of human attention is possible.Another lifestyle is possible. And if enough people do it...Another world.
>>5420888612! Ah! Ah! Ah! (The Count voice, you know, from Sesame Street?)And competition produces a peculiar contradiction:The society says:“Be weird.”But simultaneously:"Only within this narrow bandwidth."It sez:"Be yourself."But also:“Make yourself competitive.”So you are permitted individuality so long as your individuality can be converted into something socially legible:unique interesting marketable employable desirable successful.Solitude doesn't necessarily produce any of those things.The focus is always outward.Perform for the common good. Buy what if you think the common good editor be fit each and every individual to teach their highest calling? Human potential movement, Maslow, Logotherapy, Existentialism, etc. But solitude doesn't increase GDP.& Neither does otium—doing something because you have time to do it rather than because it generates an externally measurable return.That's why the old distinction between otium and negotium is so useful here. Otium isn't simply “doing nothing.” It historically encompasses contemplation, reading, conversation, study, artistic activity, wandering, thinking—activities undertaken outside the demands of commerce and public obligation.A society organized around negotium can start treating otium as suspicious.Japan makes this particularly visibleJapan didn't invent social withdrawal. European literature is absolutely full of hermits, monks, misanthropes, aristocratic recluses, solitary intellectuals, aesthetes, and people who simply disappear from ordinary society.But modern Japan gave the phenomenon a particularly striking name because the collision between extreme social expectations and withdrawal became impossible to ignore.And there is an interesting irony in the word hikikomori: the person has “drawn inward.”Not necessarily outwardly attacked society.Not necessarily conquered it.Simply ceased supplying himself to it.
Trè.That's why I think the broader phenomenon is bigger than hikikomori. A person can be socially functional while psychologically becoming something like a voluntary recluse: reducing or eliminating obligations, possessions, networking, social media, career ambition, public visibility, etc., and constructing a private territory in which his attention belongs to him.And that has a very long history.The monk in his cell, the aristocrat disappearing into his country estate, the Romantic wanderer, the flâneur, the hermit, the decadent aesthete, the eccentric scholar, the cabin-dweller, the punk squatting in an abandoned building—all of them represent different versions of the same basic proposition:“My life does not have to be available to the world.”That's a surprisingly radical proposition in a society whose greatest scarce resource is increasingly your attention...See also:Commodify Your Dissent, Thomas Frank article. Dated but 4pol is smart enough to find it's application to today's dystopian world.GL, anons.Getting off this shitsite (for days or weeks at a time, and then only dropping back in to paste large swaths of gpt text and bounce) is Step 1.Download old books.Burn to disc.Take a nap.This may take a while...Thomas Frank's “Commodify Your Dissent” is almost a perfect companion to what we were just talking about.The joke/argument of the essay is that capitalism is extraordinarily good at absorbing opposition by turning opposition itself into a commodity. Rebellion becomes a style, alienation becomes a marketing demographic, anti-establishment attitudes become things you can buy.THREAD THEMEhttps://youtu.be/CoNa1OJ35x8
Lastly...Distinction:• Dissenter: “Your society is fucked.”• Countercultural consumer: “Your society is fucked—and I'll buy the T-shirt.”• Entrepreneurial dissenter: “Your society is fucked. Here's my $299 course on escaping it.”• Hikikomori/recluse: “Whatever. I'm staying in my room.”That last one is strangely difficult to commodify if it is genuinely accompanied by withdrawal from consumption and status competition.Of course, capitalism has gotten pretty good at commodifying even withdrawal: gaming setups, streaming subscriptions, “cozy” rooms, minimalist aesthetics, wellness retreats, van life, cottagecore, anti-work books, etc. The system can eventually say:You don't need to leave society! You can purchase an aesthetically pleasing version of rejecting society.Which is very Frank.And there's an even nastier version of it: “Be authentic.”Because once authenticity becomes a social requirement, you have to perform your authenticity. Your rebellion needs an audience. Your nonconformity needs an Instagram. Your refusal of consumerism needs the right $180 jacket.That's why genuine withdrawal can seem almost more threatening than conventional political rebellion. The rebel still cares about the social arena enough to fight in it.The recluse says: I don't want the arena.I don't owe you anything. At all. But you owe me something. So repay me, now.And that connects beautifully with our earlier interest in otium vs. negotium. Otium represents a space where one's attention isn't immediately being converted into economic or social value. In that sense, protecting a little territory of uselessness may be a more radical act than buying an enormous amount of countercultural stuff.Frank's essay is basically asking: What happens when capitalism learns to sell you your rebellion?The recluse asks the more annoying question:What if I don't buy the rebellion—or participate in the market for rebellion—at all?.../end
>>542088861>It's fucking insane how everything went to shit in 2020everything went to shit when Germany lost on May 9, 1945. We are living in the timeline were jews won and successfully brainwashed half the population with their marxist bullshit.
>>542089460>>542089494>>542089580>>542089605Based schizo-mysoginist posterParticipating in a hellish game where the prize suck makes no senseDestroying the machine happens by ignoring it, not by opposing itIf every man said "yeah fuck it, I'm just not going to play this game any longer" society would collapse in weeksUntil they manage to completely replace goyim with AI, that is
>>542089494>Buy what if you think the common good editor be fit each and every individual to teach their highest callingNo idea. Your guess is a good as mine.
>>542089898Based appreciator of non game player. As the old song sez:Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to doI am he and she is she, but you're the only youNo one else has got your eyes, can see the things you seeIt's up to you to change your life, and my life's up to meThe problems that you suffer from are problems that you makeThe shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to takeIf you don't like the life you live, change it now, it's yoursNothing has effects if you don't recognize the causeIf the programme's not the one you want, get up, turn off the setIt's only you that can decide what life you're gonna getIf you don't like religion, you can be the anti-ChristIf your tired of politics, you can be an anarchistBut no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steepleAnd you'll never change the system by bombing number tenSystems just aren't made of bricks, they're mostly made of peopleYou may send them into hiding, but they'll be back againIf you don't like the rules they make, refuse to play their game(Get you, get you, get you, get you, get you, get you, get you)If you don't want to be a number, don't give them your nameIf you don't want to be caught out, refuse to hear their questionSilence is a virtue, use it for your own protectionThey'll try to make you play their game, refuse to show your faceIf you don't want to be beaten down, refuse to join their raceBe exactly who you want to be, do what you want to doI am he and she is she, but you're the only youHello, hello, helloTake off, Gov
>>542089617imagine when we die and we go back to the lobby> whoa man that was quite a run> which world did you get?> "the one with werewolves"> oh that's pretty hard, just don't go out when it's a full moon and it's doable though. You?> "zombies"> ah goddamn zombies are fucking aggro, stay up high. You?> "giant vampire rats"> yeah that's another nasty one, but when you get to lategame you usually have counters. You> "I got the one with the jews"> ok that is just unplayable, I'd have rage quitted right away
GOVERNMENT STOLE 5000 DOLLARS IN UNEMPLOYMENT FROM ME AND ANOTHER 5000 IN HEALTHCARE MONIESI'M OWED 10KAND ANOTHER 70K FROM THE JEW WHO LAID ME OFF IN 2020
>>542088861Is this how you WANT to feel? It's not easy, it takes time and practice, but you can feel how you want to feel. You want to feel hopeless in this society? You're doing it You want to feel happy? Get to it!
>>542089898This game looks good
>>542089460finally some quality schizI miss old pol
>>542089085Are these worth reading?
...NEETlife THEME:https://youtu.be/4ze3jkA7XFM...
>>542090690They are coming out next year. 400 US dollars for the entire set. I'm currently saving my weekly allowance and asking for extra chores. <3
