I’ve always found it funny how the secret to modern democracy is that Corporations have become smaller forms of government that roll their taxes through the state and get a bigger say than the individual. They work as pseudo-governments as the income they give controls the individuals working for them greater than the governing body for the country they live in. They can be seen as feudalism or the common outcome of communism, the people on top of the pyramid are simply the most powerful and the people at the bottom the most expendable. Many feel as though in the end it’s just since it’s the right of power, but I just see it as people scrambling to climb the corpses.
I find no greater example of the idiocy of modern times than our comprehension of art. People consider the works of Mozart as a cultural revolution, many view Tarentino as a philosopher, Da Vinci’s paintings as worth traveling the world for and works of literature so valuable that people have worshiped some for hundreds of years. But a form that works as a collaboration of all these, and adds user input on top of that is considered nothing more than a plaything. Video games have been the greatest example of what this society truly values deep to our nature, the ability to create virtual worlds has only lead us into tasting the mediocrity of humanity to new heights. The level of which a human mind can be distracted by these is so powerful that the actual content is of little importance, the video game that has reached a 3rd of the world’s population is nothing more than organizing blocks.
They could be used as the greatest form of education allowing collaborations in teaching that could never be matched by other methods. But instead due its inherent connection to hardware, and the economy that technology lives in, it’s focused on nothing more than the expansion of simple flash and fantasy. In fact today, with the ability of psychology put towards advertisement the corporations that run the largest digital projects aim their work at youth with quite the force. It’s to the point that they don’t even need to put any effort in the quality of the projects and can rehash code made by people in the 90’s who have long since regretted their alliance with such companies. And simply work with the strength of the brands they’ve established. They work with loopholes as hard as they can to be able to avoid taxes and bring stronger forms of gambling to new generations.
The digital realm at this point in time is literally taking advantage of the distaste you have with how things works, roping in the craving for escapism and attaching as many paywalls as possible.
Straight-Out-A-Suburbia
Oh, the cute capitalist of your cartoon.
Those in the 50s and beyond grew up with a Monopoly game in the home. Near universally true for my generation of middle class suburban Americans. You were being trained at an early age to accept the brutality of capitalism, because it was fun!, and so what that there would be winners and all the rest were losers. In a game of 3 it was only 2 losing all they had and 1 walking away with it all. Not bad odds for such high gains.
You got Park Place and even Railroads. Same for the game of Risk, another favorite of suburban post WW-II USA, a global military version of Monopoly. That’s the ticket. That was name of the game. Get all you can. Suck it all in at 10 years old, and live the rest of your life getting all the toys you could. We all know how the psychology works. Whatever you throw at a 10 year old stays with em the rest of their lives, like every great pastor or priest also knows.
Learn to throw a bunch of stuff in the trash. It’s mostly disposable.
We learned to stop taking our TVs to the repair shop. Consume more. We were trained on the labor of changing the oil on our cars, a messy business. They were only meant to go 100,000 miles and be traded in anyways.
Rather, improve your life by becoming a “smart” shopper. Buy more. All these consumerist and competitive views were then thrust upon us digitally. You could still own property, but the measure of your social intelligence by 2005 was whether you owned a mortgage that might go up a little each year, those variable interest types, but like a dinosaur compared with your home value. If your home value doubled in 2 two years, you were STUPID to not own! What the hell was wrong with you if you didn’t own by the age of 30? You going to live off your family instead? No, take that mortgage out so that you could have more independence and not be a drain on others in your old age. That was the thinking in 2005.
The music stopped in 2008. All I hear now is operetic plump thuds as people keep throwing themselves off buildings, worse, in this neo-feudalistic rentier global state of rich parasites and blood sucked out-you mass miserable under-class.
Got a degree? That’ll get ya a barista job. If you can afford the 4 years of tuition and feel like rolling the die on your chances of escaping a life of debt.
Want ta rise up with pitchforks? You’re on camera my friends. You are digitally mastered, DNA fingerprinted to predict your every thought of rebelling. Good luck chums.
Ewm
It’s the best day to grocery shop, no one is there.
Mr. Robot
Videogames evil lol
movies too
I’ve always found it funny how the secret to modern democracy is that Corporations have become smaller forms of government that roll their taxes through the state and get a bigger say than the individual. They work as pseudo-governments as the income they give controls the individuals working for them greater than the governing body for the country they live in. They can be seen as feudalism or the common outcome of communism, the people on top of the pyramid are simply the most powerful and the people at the bottom the most expendable. Many feel as though in the end it’s just since it’s the right of power, but I just see it as people scrambling to climb the corpses.
I find no greater example of the idiocy of modern times than our comprehension of art. People consider the works of Mozart as a cultural revolution, many view Tarentino as a philosopher, Da Vinci’s paintings as worth traveling the world for and works of literature so valuable that people have worshiped some for hundreds of years. But a form that works as a collaboration of all these, and adds user input on top of that is considered nothing more than a plaything. Video games have been the greatest example of what this society truly values deep to our nature, the ability to create virtual worlds has only lead us into tasting the mediocrity of humanity to new heights. The level of which a human mind can be distracted by these is so powerful that the actual content is of little importance, the video game that has reached a 3rd of the world’s population is nothing more than organizing blocks.
They could be used as the greatest form of education allowing collaborations in teaching that could never be matched by other methods. But instead due its inherent connection to hardware, and the economy that technology lives in, it’s focused on nothing more than the expansion of simple flash and fantasy. In fact today, with the ability of psychology put towards advertisement the corporations that run the largest digital projects aim their work at youth with quite the force. It’s to the point that they don’t even need to put any effort in the quality of the projects and can rehash code made by people in the 90’s who have long since regretted their alliance with such companies. And simply work with the strength of the brands they’ve established. They work with loopholes as hard as they can to be able to avoid taxes and bring stronger forms of gambling to new generations.
The digital realm at this point in time is literally taking advantage of the distaste you have with how things works, roping in the craving for escapism and attaching as many paywalls as possible.
Oh, the cute capitalist of your cartoon.
Those in the 50s and beyond grew up with a Monopoly game in the home. Near universally true for my generation of middle class suburban Americans. You were being trained at an early age to accept the brutality of capitalism, because it was fun!, and so what that there would be winners and all the rest were losers. In a game of 3 it was only 2 losing all they had and 1 walking away with it all. Not bad odds for such high gains.
You got Park Place and even Railroads. Same for the game of Risk, another favorite of suburban post WW-II USA, a global military version of Monopoly. That’s the ticket. That was name of the game. Get all you can. Suck it all in at 10 years old, and live the rest of your life getting all the toys you could. We all know how the psychology works. Whatever you throw at a 10 year old stays with em the rest of their lives, like every great pastor or priest also knows.
Learn to throw a bunch of stuff in the trash. It’s mostly disposable.
We learned to stop taking our TVs to the repair shop. Consume more. We were trained on the labor of changing the oil on our cars, a messy business. They were only meant to go 100,000 miles and be traded in anyways.
Rather, improve your life by becoming a “smart” shopper. Buy more. All these consumerist and competitive views were then thrust upon us digitally. You could still own property, but the measure of your social intelligence by 2005 was whether you owned a mortgage that might go up a little each year, those variable interest types, but like a dinosaur compared with your home value. If your home value doubled in 2 two years, you were STUPID to not own! What the hell was wrong with you if you didn’t own by the age of 30? You going to live off your family instead? No, take that mortgage out so that you could have more independence and not be a drain on others in your old age. That was the thinking in 2005.
The music stopped in 2008. All I hear now is operetic plump thuds as people keep throwing themselves off buildings, worse, in this neo-feudalistic rentier global state of rich parasites and blood sucked out-you mass miserable under-class.
Got a degree? That’ll get ya a barista job. If you can afford the 4 years of tuition and feel like rolling the die on your chances of escaping a life of debt.
Want ta rise up with pitchforks? You’re on camera my friends. You are digitally mastered, DNA fingerprinted to predict your every thought of rebelling. Good luck chums.
It’s the best day to grocery shop, no one is there.