Ya'll ever feel like learning theory does to your brain what Lovecraftian eldritch horror is meant to do? (hexbear.net)

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Why yes, there is a vast world devouring monster with its tendrils encircling all of us, and it's plainly visible once you notice it, and it's everywhere. But you come off as insane when you try to tell other people about it.

Is SCP-3125 an allegory for capitalism? Shit.

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[-] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

I wish I could remember this movie I came across years ago.

I thought it was going to be something like "Supersize Me" but about brands in general. But it turned out to be a lovecraftian/capitalism light horror film. It was weird as fuck and I liked it.

(just looked it up, its called " Branded "

In future Moscow, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.

HAH.. its Russian...

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[-] FidelCashflow@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Silicon valley types worry about evil AI destroying the planet. There are a few cults around it even. MIRI is the most well known around here.

That is specifically a system created by people that is two large for any one to control that has goal antithetical to human life and the ability to manipulate people to support it.

What they fail to realize is that they are projecting their alienation under capitlaism unto the specific tools by which capitalism alienates them. It is wild.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Capitalism is an artificial intelligence, or at least a god, in the sense that a will is enacted on its behalf that does not rely on any individual person making contingent choices. And it has destroyed the earth.

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

a blind idiot god... something like a slime mold, chasing food by reflex.

[-] crime@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

It's The Moss landlord from Season 2 of Tuca and Bertie

[-] FidelCashflow@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Exactly. It uses people as components is a giant machine that produces only waste and misery.

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[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Yeah...

Tell your average lib about dependency theory and Eurocentrism and they'll think you've gone mad, or be like "yes that's true and it's good actually".

I've been reading a lot of Frantz Fanon and Samir Amin lately.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

What's dependecy theory?

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[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

In Lovecraft's last letter, didn't he denounce fascism, call himself a fool for believing that, and say capitalism will kill us all?

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[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

Isn't this just the plot of They Live?

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[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

Have I got the essay for you: https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god-2/

[-] sea_urchin@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

I find this interesting. As an animist, I do think of money as being something that has "cursed vibes." And capitalism is also a "system" to me which is essentially "alive" (and hungry.)

[-] anadyr@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

I tried reading SCP-3125 but I think I'm too high

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[-] Jamaicanstew@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

Lovecraft became less fascist when he got older

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

How so?

[-] FidelCashflow@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

He made friends and just got over his weird incell phase.

[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago

seriously its so fucking easy ... I am for a Draft thats not a actuall draft but you get forced to hang out with random people , Counting Birds or some other service ..