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letslearntogether 3 days ago

Indeed. It is important to understand the infrastructure and psychology which sustains it...On the one hand, we have a "news" and "entertainment" media-complex that stirs up drama by sensationalizing events and fetishizing violence until one cannot see the difference between the two ( https://pepperdine-graphic.com/opinion-if-it-bleeds-it-leads-the-modern-implications-of-an-outdated-phrase/ ).

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letslearntogether 3 days ago

On the other hand, we have narratives that are tightly controlled through things like "embedded journalism" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pihg4jkByts ) and "propaganda" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDuxFnn2RY ), where important information gets "memory holed" to the point that even relatively recent history gets obscured ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG0Ql0VfcRg ).

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letslearntogether 3 days ago

Culture itself is used as a weapon ( https://merip.org/2010/05/culture-as-a-weapon/ ), so is it any surprise that we find the peacefaking that we do under the guise of "DEI programs" ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2870194/How-government-infiltrated-Cuban-HIP-HOP-botched-attempt-overthrow-communist-government.html )? Or "international aid" ( https://johnpilger.com/the-new-rulers-of-the-world/ )?

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letslearntogether 3 days ago

The stories on the inside of the "echo chamber" are comfortable fantasies and the image projected outward is a facade. Meanwhile, physical weapons are being created that divorce one from the carnage that they produce ( https://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Ethics-Symp-pg119-131.pdf ) and paint them as a "necessary evil" at worst, or "innovative" at best ( https://www.rebootingthearsenal.com/ ).

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letslearntogether 3 days ago

The worship of death has been "automated" and ossified into an AI algorithm ( https://dronecenter.bard.edu/the-disposition-matrix/ ) as people rush towards "fifth-generation warfare" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare ) in the unending quest for "total" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war ) and "perpetual" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war ) war.

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letslearntogether 3 days ago

...I use "America" here as an example, but nearly every "nation-state" partakes in such activities at different levels of scale and in various ways. It is a human issue. People use labels to split themselves into competing factions that fight to the death ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismogenesis ) over seemingly finite resources ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game ).

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letslearntogether 3 days ago

There are biases that allow one to see themselves as a "hero" ( https://blog.richmond.edu/heroes/2024/02/02/heroism-phenomena-identified-by-scott-allisons-research-lab-2005-present/ ) and make others into a "scapegoat" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating )...The behavior is transmitted through time by the stories people tell themselves, until the only story they know is "The Myth of Redemptive Violence".

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letslearntogether 3 days ago

"The story that the rulers of domination societies told each other and their subordinates is what we today might call the Myth of Redemptive Violence. It enshrines the belief that violence saves, that war brings peace, that might makes right. It is one of the oldest continuously repeated stories in the world." - Walter Wink

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proletarian-library 3 days ago

damn dude you must be thirsty, save some water for everyone else

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letslearntogether 3 days ago

ROFL! "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9fR7sHw9Y8 )

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whyishoudini updated HOUDINI Magazine: Culture, Art, Politics

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whyishoudini 3 days ago

this page is intentionally not part of the main site and is only accessible via word of mouth spread and i guess the neocities homefeed

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4 days ago

I really appreciate you taking part in the short notice homepage as a protest sign countdown. In our attention economy things like this are more powerful than you think.

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badgraph1csghost 3 days ago

since i can't afford to give anything to any of the fundraisers i see on tumblr, i'm always on the lookout for other ways to contribute. i've rung up my senators so much their clerks know me by my voice now :P

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Thank you so much for helping get the word out. In this attention economy it's the least we can do.

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I am asking all neocities webmasters that follow me to take my current index code and change your homepage to that message for the next 48 hours. This is a call to action.

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acetaminophriends 4 days ago

I added the text to my site but I have a feeling nothing will be done and nothing will change at all

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whyishoudini 4 days ago

thank you for getting the word out, im not saying this is going to move the needle but in an attention economy, the least we can do is get the word out, thanks for pushing this

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ancientcrypt 2 days ago

done

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4 days ago

asymmetrical workplace insurgency incubated under a cultural cloak

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proletarian-library

5 days ago

Will you stand to strive for a favorable future or will you continue to consume a cherry-picked past?

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badgraph1csghost 5 days ago

nostalgia is a weapon used by the corporate feudal state to sanitise memories and suppress the desire to learn or to innovate. used in tandem with fascism, it can quell dissent, encourage consumption, and discourage learning.

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letslearntogether 5 days ago

@badgraph1csghost - Interesting observations. I agree. Nostalgia can be used to manipulate people towards what is essentially slavery, *but* so can fantasies about an 'ideal' future (e.g.: "Futurism", techno-authoritarianism under the "utopian" guise of "The Californian Ideology"/"Effective Accelerationism", "Globalization" as a mask for the same old imperialism + colonialism, and so on.).

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letslearntogether 5 days ago

One needs to be *both* "progressive" in the sense of healing the destructive as rapidly as possible (before it becomes irreversible) and "conservative" in the sense of making the constructive as lasting as possible (while still being flexible enough to adapt). Therefore, I think the notion of a "political compass" is completely broken and I look at how consequences of actions differ from statements of ideology.

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letslearntogether 5 days ago

For example, healing from the atrocities of past events is different from trying to "sanitize" historical records in order to hide corruption within current social institutions. Likewise, trying to create a "utopic ideal" by enacting policies that only serve a few is a dystopia to everyone else. Similarly, over extraction of resources is not "interdependence", control through debt is not "aid", etc.

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badgraph1csghost 5 days ago

@letslearntogether right now, nostalgia is being used as a smokescreen. remakes and re-envisionings of older media, remastered versions of old games, and certainly the whole notion of "frutiger aero" are being used to get people to focus on the past as the future is being destroyed by political strongmen...

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badgraph1csghost 5 days ago

meanwhile, people who were around for the "frutiger aero era" are discarding their memories of the time in order to focus on this very inconsequential piece of commercial art history. getting everyone nostalgic for the past makes them less willing to engage with the present in all its horror. "think back, wasn't it easier back then? you can get back there you know."

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badgraph1csghost 5 days ago

nostalgia isn't /bad/, necessarily. it's just that the corporate feudal state has discovered how to use it to manipulate people using generative AI and analytics algorithms. i feel like more people are engaging with it than dealing with life anymore.

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proletarian-library 5 days ago

nice. I wasn't thinking about any of these things

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technostalgia 5 days ago

Believing in a more humane future and taking action through sharing knowledge, informations, and respect to contribute for a better world. Definitely standing with people who refuse to be lulled by unfounded influences and consumerism.

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technostalgia 5 days ago

Past and memories are parts of the history and we should not forget that. We have to build with the consideration of it to go further (where ?) and to focus on three tenses : the past, the present and the future. And not neglect any of them.

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technostalgia 5 days ago

Depending on the situation an individual is in, they might or not be able to perceive the problem they are causing indirectly. Some people will prefer to sit on their gold (litteraly minerals) and protect it because they glued values on it while some are starving drinking water. You stand up when you have to, when there is injustice and the established states are not fair to everyone due of individualism, properties

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technostalgia 5 days ago

*and enrichment of the elites. We have to act, to point it to make it change because this is not right. Of course, we have to know the rules to transgress it, self-education is important to elevate your mind and strategies. Correspondances is also a very smart move. (anyways, sorry my english is beeeed)

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proletarian-library 4 days ago

correspondence is good!

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5 days ago

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