The lie of “do your own thing“…
(Were we set to fail when “Everyone I don’t like/hate is Hitler!“ started to go from fringe, to prominent online (and then irl) phenomenon to observe? - feel Marxist but never read from him and pals
(Footnote/Forenote: About Material conditions on market-planet range)
* Where I am getting at - being that we suppose we must fight fire with fire and can’t play nice when idea alone of doing so - playing nice (within set if rules or boundaries) is at stake - we can assume, best in the (our) interest of winning against ‘late-stage capitalism’ short-term profits - rendering (by greed and short-sigtheness) human life inhospitable as-is, could we assume that technooptimism can render this problem of ‘these’ (profits) obsolete issue, due fact that human ingenuity is capable of ‘miracles’? --- But what seems improbable is, sticking it up to Hoarders (formerly Elites) to ‘provide’ so (as “creators of ‘value‘ ; be it moral-right or financial bargain“) - given, to assume so, it doesn’t render (which seems like paradox - money v. buyers to sell to*…) their/these (capital) feats obsolete or harmful? - Is capitalism and ‘democracy’ (whatever that is) of ecological ranks? (/looking at Pretr/-oil, aviation, farming…) [*/ “[Sell to] Who-, Aquaman?”]
The lie of “do your own thing“… if you were allowed, if it changed anything, it… couldn’t.
That’s how we got, get here. Youtube’s “Promote Yourself”, if you even care, even remember… oldest lie in the book?
(Were we set to fail when “Everyone I don’t like/hate is Hitler!“ started to go from fringe, to prominent online (and then irl) phenomenon to observe? /Some assume this was due OWS getting “too huge to contain” - diverting attention from Class & Capitalism, to(wards) (Self-)Identity & Gender…/ - Think also of #metoo, which went from (and some similar genuine,-then captured trends and movements; e.g. BLM in 2014 was local, in later form it was global, and then it got taken and made from equality (or how I see it) to “virtues Olympics…“ akin someone who want to ‘more equal than equal‘ - impossible, the second you do, the audience, podium, solid ground and reality went… (down the drain) - you started to float, and way into lofty fantasies out of this world… ) - it went from getting attention to abused women, only later for it to get into ‘crazy area‘ - problem isn’t that it went and that was maybe the plan; problem is that it ‘lost itself‘ in all it wanted to be(come)… (Again, it is just how I view it.)
If you could, were able - you wouldn’t be (t)here. But as you read this you probably already know this, that… That’s on me - stating obvious.
I want to spell it out - yet also - it feels dirty. It isn’t, it is just “psyop” to carry out that way… - if you were powerful enough to do all these nasty things they, those at power, of hegemony, morals-setters - you’d do that too, it is the simplest and also the most obvious thing to do - “run fast, break things”, and as the other one goes: “no one won by [singing heart out to about] your enemy (appealing reason to /-your enemy -?)” (forgot the actual quote - my bad).
What I am getting at is the question of selfish-type (of) feels-good (superior/-ity) morality - basis that feels bad but could be, if supported by evidence (if one dares), breakthrough on how we can get to root of many problems…
Dilemma before us is this:
As adage goes, “If you can’t fight them (and win), join them.” Has this experiment been ever done, tried before? Could be but do I actually recall? - No (me).
Could also be that I got personal struggle with “wiggle morals”. So this might just as be my (autistic?) pet peeve on center of the basis of premise itself -
- Losing one-self and integrity I hold saint, or to always play it safe and never do what I want, if there is only one thing, and that is to do and go against my morals and values, yet that is, not against my interest?
One might call it the simplest basis of “artist’s deal/curse” - do what you love but never “make it” -or- lose myself in hustle so I can “steal from them” as they do, with the wages and rest, from us? (Rules are written by rich for poors - but I assume that is for given as of this text.)
I might just be an idiot - someone who don’t want to get dirty, someone who can’t grow up, take responsibility, someone who want just to play forever and live off hope and cope!…
I hate myself for it. I do. But I can’t live other way. Also vaporwave don’t make money (unless you are in The Winners Circle…). Nor does doing nothing. I might just become paid twitter troll - but that is where my morals will end and there,- I might just “go postal” - ‘burning’ all my cares and civil barriers -, getting my points (by-then, as going crazy-unhinged, Hitler-would-shiver ones) across - before they will be muted, got safe-edgy aesthified, get-got out of context, touch or something, - as that use, seem to go/roll…
…I might just get radicalised - seeing all the shit go, social contract getting from civil duty to mere recommendation, nazis and other once-contained ‘creatures of the night/underbelly’ go on light and with no fear, repercussions, ‘no filter’, scrapping dogwhistles and ‘going in on word-commando’… What it took that veterans seem to fight for nothing, (not getting disrespectful, that is just, looking around… :( ) - in the end (we got- i.e., now/-adays) that we ‘got back to the start’, and with Roaring 20s and 30s, coming with century-delayed sequels!!!
So - should you join your (our, class-) enemies (within cause - even it may look you ‘can’ make ‘friends’ with nazi, nobody nit them know where to stop)… /as I write this wannabe P.S. part, it occurred to me, there is the line that when crossed, makes all the ‘might’ useless - that is-i.e., social contract mentioned already./ if it benefits you or both?
But can you know where to stop? For one, it is OK to implement stricter migrant policies. For another, well, cancelling 19th amendment (if I recall that right, A19 gives voting rights to women. ‘Well,’ looking at you, ‘Texas(?) Proposal’!)…
It is not ‘95 anymore. I get it that there is huge disinfo wave brigades going on. Always were. Yet it seems people esp. nowadays got more ‘dense’. Might be, Internet getting people’s brains ‘get/stuck in stone’, with algos fine-tuned to their most-liked preferences - losing interest in ‘different/complex/long’ - i.e., losing sense for nuances and ability to tell (obvious type of) satire from text, among other(s) (things)…?!
This ‘joined’ fear of mine, going hand in hand with this ‘disinfo rage’ - if EU or really, anybody (’did EU’ “footnote” bellow), want to ‘cater for/to truth’, it must be done in ‘nice packaging’ t.i. (i.e.), see problem with ‘academia gatekeeping’. It seems like problem with messaging. This gets worse and worse with (mis)use of AI and (how I started, really) “do your own thing”’-attitude - doing more harm that good. “Everybody is artist/vlogger/blogger/indiereporter… now” ‘catastrophe’, on every aspect of ‘expertise’ now. (I side-tracked. I wanted to originally talk about ‘Elites’, which, well, they are not. Let me fix myself really quick.)
This fear - we might get Hoarders (Fuck you, your E-word!) ‘tired’ of us. What I mean is, there seems to go consensus in my head, -
- that we (lower class) are just clowns in arena for the amusement of the rich, given our limited resources and ‘status quo thoughts’ we are “allowed” (Chomsky; aesthification of dissent; worded before) to think… (Looking at you, rich ‘academy’ (either fake, or then sold-out) dudes who can think bs no filter crap and some of the Hoarders might adopt that no-sound ‘12-mrbeast-and-tumblr-marxfan’-akin think-fart going on about basically ‘what if torment nexus (was good; etc.)…’ /see where I am getting at? - Uhm, Nick Land, Yarvin, e-acc ‘thinkheads’ (meant that as curseword, rather than positive thing to do)… (Th-guy, other Ti-guy) /never read those but quick summaries so maybe I am kinda right, - or, horribly wrong!… :/
Gatekeeping can hurt, but help, too. It is difference between wanting things to get better and-or hoarding resources to yourself (within proper exceptions when things get ‘profanized’, worse(n) in such cases - as written under-with safe-edgy aesthification - in-on part where ‘I if-went postal’) than help people ‘to change things’ (/amancadream.mp3) - which is the whole schtick-dilemma really - ‘be You - lay low, -or- steal, progress and help others and yourself’?… (And, can you help others before yourself first, or is that no-go trap you underwent for (wrote-before) moral smug superiority ?)
///did EU lost “the plot” or was it always this beaurocratic bullshitery that just UvdL got the disluck to bring in spotlight with herself? Don’t let me start with globalist vibes*… “WEF”, ‘top’ /s of the UN and rest of power-hungry betterpeople… They think we are idiots. We might be (that,- I admit) - but that is not how ‘dialogue in dragnet-democracy(TM)’ goes, Mother of God!!!… [/* flattened, curbed, averaged-out world - instead of pulling it out of misery of corpocracy - ‘Let’s just get world to the state the [Country in the middle of the table] is! Why to bother - oh b(r)other, you little thought, [our Conditions] gonna “solve It-all“? …How naive - that’s not how it works!…‘ !]