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2018-05-29 at 10:23 PM UTC in Society has gone fucking nuts.
Originally posted by NARCassist but people are society
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People are people. Society is a system dreamed up by people. A system which will continue to narrow the sphere of human freedom.
Freedom means being in control of the life and death issues of one’s existence; food, clothing, shelter and defense against whatever threats there may be in one’s environment. Freedom means having power; not the power to control other people but the power to control the circumstances of one’s own life. One does not have freedom if anyone else (especially a large organization) has power over one, no matter how benevolently, tolerantly and permissively that power may be exercised.
It is said that we live in a free society because we have a certain number of constitutionally guaranteed rights. But these are not as important as they seem. The degree of personal freedom that exists in a society is determined more by the economic and technological structure of the society than by its laws or its form of government.
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what might be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a “free” man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual. Thus the bourgeois’s “free” man has economic freedom because that promotes growth and progress; he has freedom of the press because public criticism restrains misbehavior by political leaders; he has a right to a fair trial because imprisonment at the whim of the powerful would be bad for the system.
It should not be assumed that a person has enough freedom just because he says he has enough. Freedom is restricted in part by psychological controls of which people are unconscious, and moreover many people’s ideas of what constitutes freedom are governed more by social convention than by their real needs. For example, it’s likely that many leftists of the oversocialized type would say that most people, including themselves, are socialized too little rather than too much, yet the oversocialized leftist pays a heavy psychological price for his high level of socialization. -
2018-05-29 at 10:08 PM UTC in Society has gone fucking nuts.Postal has been around for a lot longer.
Society isn't going nuts. Society is what makes people go nuts. -
2018-05-29 at 9:59 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs AttentionWhat's the tag to make text shake?
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2018-05-29 at 6:17 PM UTC in Random thoughts/notes which may or may not be of interest to niggas.
Originally posted by Xlite I don't know man. I mean, i hope we will find some solutions to the problems but it just doesn't look like its going to happen.
People want this tech because they are miserable and lazy. They are miserable because of society and nobody in power is looking to change that, because nobody will blame society. They prefer to blame individuals and this changes nothing.
The future might not be a place for me, but that doesn't mean nobody else will be able to thrive there. I'm sure it can work, but its just not a world i want to live in. However, due to the tempting nature of VR i might just find myself doing it anyway.
I think it's inevitable...
Lately I have not been able to shake the feeling that we have no free will, we are just parts of a process that is bigger than us and what we think of as our reality is a sort of illusion or simulation or just our perspective, that it's all a part of something bigger. Time is an illusion and the past isn't really the past and the future already exists. I think there is a machine at the End of Time, something like VALIS, something like God, and we are going to build it eventually or actually we are already a part of it and we are like conduits for processing information or something like that. I can't shake this feeling and I can barely describe it but there it is. -
2018-05-29 at 12:25 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs Attention
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2018-05-29 at 12:07 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs AttentionWhen was your parents house built sploo?
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2018-05-28 at 10:38 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs Attention
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2018-05-28 at 10:30 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs Attention
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2018-05-28 at 10:22 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs Attention
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2018-05-28 at 10:10 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs Attention
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2018-05-27 at 11:54 PM UTC in DATE RAPE HOTEL Users are the best thing that ever happened in the world.
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2018-05-27 at 7:59 PM UTC in Tommy Robinson arrested and sentenced within an hour, judge orders media blackout in UK
Originally posted by tee hee hee It's a scary world we live in. Civilization seems to be hanging on by a thread.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.
If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. -
2018-05-27 at 4:54 PM UTC in Random thoughts/notes which may or may not be of interest to niggas.
Originally posted by Xlite I don't know man. I mean, i hope we will find some solutions to the problems but it just doesn't look like its going to happen.
People want this tech because they are miserable and lazy. They are miserable because of society and nobody in power is looking to change that, because nobody will blame society. They prefer to blame individuals and this changes nothing.
The future might not be a place for me, but that doesn't mean nobody else will be able to thrive there. I'm sure it can work, but its just not a world i want to live in. However, due to the tempting nature of VR i might just find myself doing it anyway.
You might find this interesting:
Was going to make a thread for this one but you're probably one of the few who might actually appreciate it anyway. -
2018-05-27 at 3:12 PM UTC in Random thoughts/notes which may or may not be of interest to niggas.Do you think this vision of our future is inevitable or that a different future may be possible? Do you think efforts should be made to prevent this from happening or should it be accepted as fate? How do you personally deal with this?
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2018-05-27 at 1:21 PM UTC in Met up with Obbe last night
Pollan says plants have all the same senses as humans, and then some. In addition to hearing, taste, for example, they can sense gravity, the presence of water, or even feel that an obstruction is in the way of its roots, before coming into contact with it. Plant roots will shift direction, he says, to avoid obstacles.
So what about pain? Do plants feel? Pollan says they do respond to anesthetics. "You can put a plant out with a human anesthetic. … And not only that, plants produce their own compounds that are anesthetic to us."
…They don't have nerve cells like humans, but they do have a system for sending electrical signals and even produce neurotransmitters, like dopamine, serotonin and other chemicals the human brain uses to send signals…
https://niggasin.space/thread/21377?p=1#post-361117
You know why I never make threads about daily? Daily never says anything interesting. Never thinks outside the box. Never colours outside the lines. And he's always watching, always on the hunt for anyone that thinks differently, he is a slave to the system. So if you fuck up and go against the grain and beyond the status quo, watch out! Daily will be there to make a shitpost about how dumb you must be because he is very smart! -
2018-05-26 at 10:14 PM UTC in Collective Narcissism: Why Conspiracy Theories are More Popular Than Ever
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2018-05-26 at 3:58 PM UTC in Collective Narcissism: Why Conspiracy Theories are More Popular Than Ever
Why the world is changing into a place where truth matters less than your ability to argue on behalf of lies. -
2018-05-26 at 3:29 PM UTC in Bad Ideas at the BeachWalk around naked and fight anyone who tells you to wear clothes and shout about your rights.
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2018-05-26 at 3:20 PM UTC in ATTN: NIS - Regarding the newfags
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2018-05-26 at 2:48 PM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
