What worries me is how many people voluntarily plug in. I see few people around me now without a toy rectangle wherever they go. Traffic and children both ignored as they stare. I suspect some are lost forever.
The anti-Trump propaganda in the US is something to behold. From being treated initially as a joke in 2015, the hatred towards him has been dialed up to a Spinal Tap-ish 11. An assassination attempt against him is viewed by at least a third of Democrats as a staged event meant to elicit sympathy.
Not a surprise. The Left, forgoing God, or at least worshipping a God who they imagine is A-OK with sodomy and abortion (I'm looking at you, mainline churches), overwhelmingly accepts "the current thing." Not grounded in the ultimate reality, they are susceptible to a manufactured one.
Yes, and that too conforms to the reality/unreality paradigm. The Left manufactured the Russian collusion hoax to explain away their defeat in 2016. Trump voters point to the reality of election fraud four years ago.
TDS is a sight to behold. All the more so as it seems to genuinely animated people. I've read a few comments from liberals who seem to genuinely think he is Hitler and will build camps. Insanity.
I'm hoping TDS represents the end of the traditional media as it is a product of them and not an organic development. Their openness about their bias should help too.
Everything that these leftists , their fellow travelers and camp train say is pure projection . They would make the camps real in a heartbeat were they able . They will continue this line until they have the means to make their fever dreams reality or goad their enemies to do it instead . I have no need for or wish for camps , no normal man does . Besides being to much work , only a masochist would willingly put himself amongst the likes of these . If it comes to it , a graveyard is more likely .
The communists ran real death camps before and after the war. Solzhenitsyn is quite damning about the systematic murder of 30 million Russians by the likes of Genrikh Yagoda. See also Varlam Shalamov, and the harrowing Russian language documentary “Kolyma”, which can be found on YouTube
Solzhenitsyn is a forgotten , or more accurately , disappeared man . Written out of the history he lived . I have been fortunate indeed to know many who fought against communism . Hungarians , Czechs , Lithuanians and many others . My great Aunt even married an Austrian gentleman who had been on an extended hunting trip in the Balkans 1942-45 . It is coming .
They just engineered a coup d'etat in the US by installing Communist Kamala as de facto president though their assassination attempt on Trump failed. Time to stockpile food, water, and cash? Stay tuned.
"The old men in my village used to say, everything changes by the colour of the glass you see it through. Nothing is true. Every thing's imagined. Do you notice reflections? For me, sometimes the reflection is far more present than the thing being reflected. Are you interested in hallucinations, by any chance? Have you ever tried peyote? Do you know who the Huicholes are? They wear mirrors around their necks. And they play violins. Handmade violins. With only one string."
"Sometimes the reflection is far more present than the thing being reflected." - that's the heart of the message not the bollocks around it.
The internet's social media became a mirror for self-reflection for far too many people.
Lots of "people" don't even exist, yet their "reflections" do. Just look at the number of real human users on platforms like Twitter. It's much less than bots. Elon didn't ban bots, he just monetized them. That's the reason why Twitter is a glass cube full of mirrors.
Excuse me for annoying your trigger happy reflection. :)
I think you miss the point. The dissolving personality is a function of mass media. It flatters the midwit viewpoint of “my truth, my reality”, which is why it is so appealing.
The personality is not reflected in social media - it is displaced by it. This makes people contingent on forces beyond their control, a process which guarantees accelerating instability.
I have a headache and am cross as a result. I detest Jim Jarmusch and would [REDACTED] his fans on sight.
What is "PERSONALITY DISSOLVING" mass media? I don't understand what that means. Can you explain with simpler words why "mass media" is not representing "true/full personalities"?
I have also been prompted lately to look at pictures of the blood gorged gastropod Robert Kagan - which has not left me in the best of moods. I thought I despised that man enough and I was wrong.
Sure. I once wrote about the selling of feminism to the masses in 2015, attacking the colonialism because I live in Orthodox Serbia not in UK or USA. Shortly after that I was denounced as a heretical, cancelled for wrong think, and later given a good smack in the nose for being unconvinced by the "reflection of self" that interaction with the psychopathy of social media users gave me.
I kind of know a thing or two about what it means for a person's reflection being more present than the object that it reflects on the Internet. :)
A good read. Although worrying.
What worries me is how many people voluntarily plug in. I see few people around me now without a toy rectangle wherever they go. Traffic and children both ignored as they stare. I suspect some are lost forever.
There is a reward for plugging in, as there is a reward for giving up and taking synthetic opioids.
The truth is not for the weak.
The anti-Trump propaganda in the US is something to behold. From being treated initially as a joke in 2015, the hatred towards him has been dialed up to a Spinal Tap-ish 11. An assassination attempt against him is viewed by at least a third of Democrats as a staged event meant to elicit sympathy.
Not a surprise. The Left, forgoing God, or at least worshipping a God who they imagine is A-OK with sodomy and abortion (I'm looking at you, mainline churches), overwhelmingly accepts "the current thing." Not grounded in the ultimate reality, they are susceptible to a manufactured one.
The US will be in crisis either way, whoever wins the election. There is no national unity any more.
Yes, and that too conforms to the reality/unreality paradigm. The Left manufactured the Russian collusion hoax to explain away their defeat in 2016. Trump voters point to the reality of election fraud four years ago.
TDS is a sight to behold. All the more so as it seems to genuinely animated people. I've read a few comments from liberals who seem to genuinely think he is Hitler and will build camps. Insanity.
I'm hoping TDS represents the end of the traditional media as it is a product of them and not an organic development. Their openness about their bias should help too.
These liberals would feel good about imprisoning and even murdering Trump supporters, I believe, since "our democracy" is at stake.
Everything that these leftists , their fellow travelers and camp train say is pure projection . They would make the camps real in a heartbeat were they able . They will continue this line until they have the means to make their fever dreams reality or goad their enemies to do it instead . I have no need for or wish for camps , no normal man does . Besides being to much work , only a masochist would willingly put himself amongst the likes of these . If it comes to it , a graveyard is more likely .
The communists ran real death camps before and after the war. Solzhenitsyn is quite damning about the systematic murder of 30 million Russians by the likes of Genrikh Yagoda. See also Varlam Shalamov, and the harrowing Russian language documentary “Kolyma”, which can be found on YouTube
Solzhenitsyn is a forgotten , or more accurately , disappeared man . Written out of the history he lived . I have been fortunate indeed to know many who fought against communism . Hungarians , Czechs , Lithuanians and many others . My great Aunt even married an Austrian gentleman who had been on an extended hunting trip in the Balkans 1942-45 . It is coming .
Bolshevism is an ideology of permanent “progress”.
Baptised in the blood of millions, it is a cult of death directed by a spiteful elite.
It certainly sounds familiar. Solzhenitsyn has been disappeared from collective memory because he recorded it without fear of persecution.
“200 years together” is one book which examines the victors of the 20th century and the strategy of vengeance through the guise of victimhood.
They just engineered a coup d'etat in the US by installing Communist Kamala as de facto president though their assassination attempt on Trump failed. Time to stockpile food, water, and cash? Stay tuned.
Great stuff. To me it seems like the system is selling snobbery and sadism.
"The old men in my village used to say, everything changes by the colour of the glass you see it through. Nothing is true. Every thing's imagined. Do you notice reflections? For me, sometimes the reflection is far more present than the thing being reflected. Are you interested in hallucinations, by any chance? Have you ever tried peyote? Do you know who the Huicholes are? They wear mirrors around their necks. And they play violins. Handmade violins. With only one string."
(The Limits Of Control, 2009, Jim Jarmush)
Perspectivism is self indulgent bollocks
"Sometimes the reflection is far more present than the thing being reflected." - that's the heart of the message not the bollocks around it.
The internet's social media became a mirror for self-reflection for far too many people.
Lots of "people" don't even exist, yet their "reflections" do. Just look at the number of real human users on platforms like Twitter. It's much less than bots. Elon didn't ban bots, he just monetized them. That's the reason why Twitter is a glass cube full of mirrors.
Excuse me for annoying your trigger happy reflection. :)
I think you miss the point. The dissolving personality is a function of mass media. It flatters the midwit viewpoint of “my truth, my reality”, which is why it is so appealing.
The personality is not reflected in social media - it is displaced by it. This makes people contingent on forces beyond their control, a process which guarantees accelerating instability.
I have a headache and am cross as a result. I detest Jim Jarmusch and would [REDACTED] his fans on sight.
What is "PERSONALITY DISSOLVING" mass media? I don't understand what that means. Can you explain with simpler words why "mass media" is not representing "true/full personalities"?
Yes. I explain that here https://frankwright.substack.com/p/the-posthuman-present
I have also been prompted lately to look at pictures of the blood gorged gastropod Robert Kagan - which has not left me in the best of moods. I thought I despised that man enough and I was wrong.
Sure. I once wrote about the selling of feminism to the masses in 2015, attacking the colonialism because I live in Orthodox Serbia not in UK or USA. Shortly after that I was denounced as a heretical, cancelled for wrong think, and later given a good smack in the nose for being unconvinced by the "reflection of self" that interaction with the psychopathy of social media users gave me.
I kind of know a thing or two about what it means for a person's reflection being more present than the object that it reflects on the Internet. :)