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There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

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The problem is to get money #TheProblemIsToGetMoney
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Kafka / George Bellows
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The passage in America with the political rally is also very Bellowsesque. And when Karl is looking out on a fractured NYC. That was Kafka's Ashcan School novel
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Top 40 radio in stores and restaurants is Goebbelsian social engineering
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The entire plot of the monster mash happened to a buddy of mine once
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We should make the West much poorer
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One technique of authority figures is Baiting. They say "there are no stupid questions" to bait you into asking a question so they can make you feel stupid. They ask you for an explanation and when you explain they tell you not to make excuses. This is done in order to humiliate
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Above all they want you to feel, deep in your bones, that there is no escape. This is what Kafka's novels are about: the impossibility of communication or understanding along the gradient of power
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Another way of putting it is the double bind, or the unwinnable position of the subordinate
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Why?
birds' hell@saturnalreturn19 Nov 2024
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2026: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih How It Is by Samuel Beckett
birds' hell@saturnalreturn20 Jan 2025
2025 reading: Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
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The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst
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The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
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Listen to It's After the End of the World (Live at the Donauschingen and Berlin Festivals) - Album...

Sun Ra Arkestra · album · 1971 · 5 songs

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Bro her fidelity to the source material
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When the workplace is a "fast-paced environment"
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There's a direct proportional relationship between the number of times you've read this phrase in jobs listings and the degree to which you are completely fucked
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"she is not contemplating the sum of her possible pleasures, but the sum of her accomplished crimes, the common poverty, positively refracted in the gold which, being there, cannot be elsewhere"
birds' hell@saturnalreturn11 Nov 2024
it's all about positional goods. things that are worth having solely because someone else has a corresponding negative amount. money, status, power only work by virtue of unequal distribution
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Hobbes on the differences between ants and humans
birds' hell@saturnalreturn11 Nov 2024
it's all about positional goods. things that are worth having solely because someone else has a corresponding negative amount. money, status, power only work by virtue of unequal distribution
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I need $2,000,000
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Type shit open.spotify.com/track/10hyt…

Power for Power

Swans · Filth · Song · 1983

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Enslaved by Machinery

Insect Warfare · World Extermination · Song · 2009

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Purely on the surface level of basic tenets, Jainism clears every other religion
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The problem of course with non-violence and kindness etc is risk of being the first performer of a contract. If you can't guarantee that other parties will reciprocate, you're liable to sacrifice yourself. That's one reason you might want Leviathan: peace
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