I live in Seattle. Been at the protests everyday,. Run a free soup tent at night in the chaz. Most people in the chaz are there to hold the police station hostage until the city meets the blm demands in some way. The infrastructure built in chaz is there to support those who are apart of occupation effort. The goal is not to have an autonomous zone.
My Hero Academia is a damn good anime, it's a well-executed shonen amidst a sea of others who don't execute on it well enough. It's heroic, it's inspiring, it's uplifting and exciting. But it'll never be one of my favorites, because relentless, endless competition boils at the very heart of the show. Students compete to be on top, and it really doesn't ever end. Even the professional adult heroes are all ranked, and to be on top is to be the best. Relationships and even friendships take kind of a back seat. There's a 'main trio' in only the loosest and most technical sense, it's like if Harry, Ron, and Hermione barely spoke. Yes, Harry Potter, a book series where the houses complete with points and get them taken away or awarded all the time still comes off as so much less competitive because within each house, there is some assumed alliance and allegiance. The HeroAcas fight for justice and against villains and stuff, but it's so shonen. Which means individual striving to being on top of the pile of individuals, period. And I don't... hate that always? But it will never, ever, regardless of anything, be the water I want to swim in or feel comfortable with. Too much competition kills the soul, kids.
Bleach is one of the rare popular shonen that never had competition driving the protagonist and narrative. Ichigo wanted to get stronger but for the purpose of protecting his family, friends, and town. Though I wish Ichigo and the gang would go all revolution on the way Soul Society is run, because most of the problems in every arc is the result of how Soul Society is setup.
There is so much great content here. Like of course the bourgeois bit about guilt over racism legitimizes bourgeois dominance over the MoP and capital, but also that small bit around 31:00 where he is talking about how the internet creates a need / incentive to contextualize intent rather than creating a dialogue over the content of what is said.
Matt, the best human ecosystem is to be found in the southern hemisphere (Africa in particular) where I'm moving. Come to Zanzibar as our guest, brother Matt!!
There's a wework building that is empty in the CHOP which hasn't even been seized (nor has the police precinct) so it certainly isn't some dual power thing.
The mentat thing was basically how the internet _was_ before search engines because there was literally no other way to find websites so we could set this up by just getting rid of a DNS and like constantly shuffling server IPs. I thought this dichotomy and eventual domination of the algorithmic search engine was presented pretty well in Halt and Catch Fire.
As a cook/chef since the age of 15, 29 now, grilling is easy as fuck. Sauteeing is way harder to do well, and honestly, the hardest cooking is delicate baking. Everything else, you can fake good enough, fix after the fact, or add flavor from other ingredients to mask fuckups. Only with baking is that impossible. Anywho, with brisket, low and slow with plenty of moisture. I prefer smoking for a few hours and then steaming (healthier) or putting hot ass grill marks on it (better fllavor from more rendering IMO), then fine slice against grain. 4-5 hours, but really, 15 minutes of actual effort. Easy peasy my dudes and dudettes
Is this title a clever reference to the Sumerian empire or just a dumb spelling mistake I feel compelled by my borderline spelling fascism to correct in my Twitter feed when I share this? I await enlightenment...
I completely buy Matt's theory that reading Coates and acknowledging racism reassures educated liberals that they have done the psychic penance to atone for their unjust advantages. It's also hard not to think that educated, comfortable leftists get the same thing out of listening to Chapo and acknowledging class conflict.
He says we can push ourselves off the beam but also cannot given it being predetermined. At around 35:15 he perseverance in saying "it pushes you off the path" but doesn't resolve the dialectic of why this means our future is still deterministic. Maybe this him trying to not be too esoteric, but it also feels like it could be him losing sight of that satori moment.
Not sure if Matt reads these comments, but fuck it. I'm well aware that the internet, as a platform, is harmful to people on a spiritual level, but were we to transition to the proposed "art class but for the internet", what would we do regarding people who make actual friends and form bonds over the internet? Hell, I met my significant other over World of Warcraft and now we're living together happily, and thats only because the distance between us was relatively small at first. Only about a 6 hour drive. We both also have very good friends that live much further away however, even as far as Argentina, and were we to get rid of the internet (at least thats what I'm gathering the idea is to do for the vast majority of people) we would have no other means of communication with those people that we've connected with. How would we maintain these global bonds for the average person in any way but the internet, basically?
The idea of self-delusion leading to revolutionary action sounds like Georges Sorel's idea on the power of political myth. Shame he was taken by the fascists, because some of his ideas are alright. Also, Quiplash is the Chad Cards Against Humanity
The competitive nature as the death of well-being and peace of mind. That would be a fairly zen basis to work from. Not ‘Don’t try’ just don’t make trying the whole point.
1:01:36 - Nah, man...not that we're too stupid. It's that WE (SUPPOSEDLY) BEAT THE RUSSIANS. Don't forget - cold war shit was REAL among us. We really, truly feared nuclear annihilation. N the Russians had successfully launched Sputnik into orbit. We had to WIN. That's what concerned most people.
58:47 - While I agree it's likely not a conspiracy/manipulation (would have to be too elaborate to make any sense) - you have to admit it's a weird quinky-dink that the guy's name is a perfect etymological root representation of what's going on. C'mon - Chauvin...chauvinist...WTF?
It became an insult gradually after neoliberalism became a common term. And after about 2016 neolibs and libs just started blending together. I'm ok with it bc liberalism isn't a great thing.
Nice one Matt .... playing the choppers overhead song from Goodfellas while the choppers were overhead sent me tripping into new levels of the simulation
I feel like Matt is falling back into the demiurge from a place of acknowledge the relative smallness of what he truly knows. He's do a ton of narrativizing in this episode of other people's intents and behaviors. This feels like a reconstructing of reality around himself in order to feel a sense of control over sensory input. I wonder if that is just inevitable
