- equality sux
- “male privilege” is a confused and analytically bankrupt reformist concept
- the whole conversation is abstracted so far that it’s unclear what we’re even speaking in reference to, which is fantastic bc everyone can project their own meaning and keep discourse going :D
it’s also fascinating how de-personalized the chart is. it’s as if the man and woman have no relation to one another, and this abstract patriarchy has arbitrarily chosen to make women worse off. through what means? who knows!
angrily muttering “kill yourself” to the gas pump that started playing an advertisement at me before realizing the person that just got out of their car 2 feet from me might think it’s directed at them
1/
To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities - I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished:
2/
Sociability itself is a participant in injustice, insofar as it pretends we can still talk with each other in a frozen world, and the flippant, chummy word contributes to the perpetuation of silence, insofar as the concessions to those being addressed debase the latter once more as speakers.
By adapting to the weaknesses of the oppressed, one confirms in such weaknesses the prerequisite of domination, and develops in oneself the measure of barbarity, thickheadedness and capacity to inflict violence required to exercise domination. For intellectuals, unswerving isolation is the only form
in which they can vouchsafe a measure of solidarity. All of the playing along, all of the humanity of interaction and participation is the mere mask of the tacit acceptance of inhumanity.
3/
You want, if possible—and there is no more fantastic “if possible”—to do away with suffering. What about us? It does seem that we would prefer it to be even higher and worse than it ever was! Well being, the way you understand it—that is no goal.
To us that looks like an end, a condition which immediately makes human beings laughable and contemptible—something which makes their destruction desirable! The discipline of suffering, of great suffering—don’t you realize that up to this point it is only this suffering which has created every
enhancement in man up to now? That tension of a soul in misery which develops its strength, its trembling when confronted with great destruction, its inventiveness and courage in bearing, holding out against, interpreting, and using unhappiness, and whatever has been
conferred upon it by way of profundity, secrecy, masks, spirit, cunning, and greatness—has that not been given to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?
-N
4/
I have an image of objective happiness and objective despair, and I would say that for as long as people are unencumbered as they are now, and are not expected to take on full responsibility and full self-determination,
then for just as long their welfare and happiness in this world will be an illusion. And it will be an illusion that will one day burst. And when it bursts it will have dreadful consequences.
-A
5/
Interestingly, I am a critic of relief while you are a proponent of relief: the distress that drives people to seek out such forms of relief is precisely the distress that is put on them by the institutions – that is,
from the arrangement of the world that is alien to them and omnipotent over them. And that seems to me to be an ur-phenomenon of anthropology today, that people flee precisely to the power that is causing them the harm they are suffering from.
-A
6/
Suffering is not an evil in itself; it becomes evil only when it is not endured consciously or when it exceeds our capacities for comprehension or endurance.
-N
It is still possible to make one’s way in entertainment, if one is not too obstinate about one’s own concerns, and proves appropriately pliable. Anyone who resists can only survive by fitting in. Once his particular brand of deviation from the norm has been noted by the industry, he belongs to it as
does the land-reformer to capitalism. Realistic dissidence is the trademark of anyone who has a new idea in business. In the public voice of modern society accusations are seldom audible; if they are, the perceptive can already detect signs that the dissident will soon be reconciled.
equality is a stupid goal + ur a lib + moralism + they’re qualitatively different reference points to evaluate interests relative to
congrats you’ve graduated from “all lives matter” feminism but can we drop the rest of the baggage soon now pls
verdict on bmth’s kool aid:
- chorus sucks
- verse 2, bridge, and breakdown have vocally solid moments from oli
- instruments are really uninspiring throughout, excessively clinical and playing it safe
- we already did the doom inspired thing on post human, like it’s fine but not that interesting
- i don’t understand the praise for the guitar solo at all (two tiddlywinks of cum, and mid cum at that)
- the chanting and extra bits thrown in around the breakdown are just distracting and frankly dull and boring
overall a better direction for them but i don’t have confidence they’ll deliver with the rest of the album either. i understand it’s not for me anymore and that’s okay