That Chapter Is Really Saying, “If You Do Everything Right, And You’re Still Living In A Society
That chapter is really saying, “If you do everything right, and you’re still living in a society that is deeply impacted by its hatred of the poor and its fear of precarity, you’re still going to create systems that punish, police, and profile.” And that’s the most frustrating place that people get to. Because then they’re like, “Well then, what do we do?” And they want me to give them a ten-point plan for creating better technologies. And I’m like, “Well, what we do is, join in social movements, and end poverty everywhere, and forever.” And I’m sorry that that’s a frustrating answer. But it’s the real answer.
The High-Tech Poorhouse
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"The Earth is listening" painting by Mikhail Pyaskovsky, USSR, 1988.
Mcdonalds drive-thru: do you want the meal or just the sandwich?
Data: uuuuuh hold on
*fishes something out of his pocket*
Data: Tasha what do i do?
Data's Tasha Yar posthumous hologram: get the fries. youll need the energy in the coming days
*stuffs it back in his pocket*
Data: yes please, the meal would be great
David Suzuki in this interview about facing the reality of climate change and other environmental issues from Moyers & Company.
art in architecture // wien leopoldstadt
II
part 2 of art in architecture in leopoldstadt, vienna. and again a mix of modern and traditional formal language, executed as sculpture, mosaic or sgraffito. sometimes the artworks refer to biblical themes (weintraubengasse), local handicrafts (große pfarrgasse) or history, such as former buildings or residents (rotensterngasse & czerniengasse).
1. weintraubengasse artist: f. barzig, d.j.
2. zirkusgasse
3. große pfargasse
4. rotensterngasse
5. czerniengasse (completion 1962) artist: k.drexler
Drawing in mspaint? Cool, impressive, But whenever I see that, I think about the person who makes their art in power point Every time I see them it boggles me
(their account)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
Theses on Feuerbach
One of the absolute biggest failures of the US/Western "left" is the fact that most people are only capable of being anti-imperialist in the abstract and/or in hindsight. "Of course invading Iraq was bad!" people will say. "Of course invading Vietnam was bad! Of course the US lied about Iraq in the 90s to initiate the Gulf War!" (and Vietnam in the 60s, and Iraq again in the 2000s). But when it comes to what the empire is doing now people get fucking goldfish brains and are incapable of critically analyzing any new information. You see, we just have to stay in Syria to save the Kurds and defeat Assad. We just have to go to war with China if they try to reunify Taiwan to protect democracy. We should have stayed in Afghanistan to protect women and girls. Or people will try to both-sides it and say "well of course US imperialism is bad, but [insert Official Enemy State here] is just as bad if not worse!". Then when the empire makes its move and inevitably it kills thousands of people and makes the world objectively worse, then people will say "oh I guess it was bad after all", and the "anti-imperialists" of 20 years from now will pat themselves on the back for remembering that bad thing the empire did and knowing it definitely was bad.
All of this is supremely useless. If anti-imperialism means anything it means stopping the empire before it ever even starts, and if it does start, doing any and everything possible to sabotage and defeat it.
