mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06- Sane once in a blue moon.
- My purpose in life is to break the chains of alienation and bring about human flourishing.
My goodness @pluralistic@mamot.fr's neologisms are so delicious:
"This is the defective reasoning that caused Comrade Trump to hormuz the world into the full Gretacene."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene
In the name of Almighty gracious and merciful!
Fuck the #capitalism ! Upside down, inside out, to the left and to the right.
Let fires of hell unleash on systems that rob us of our humanity.
May we overcome the alienation and flourish in unity.
Amen!
When capital reaches the limits of the factory gate, it does not politely halt; it cannibalizes the private sphere, colonizing the human psyche, desire, and the most intimate expressions of affection. The tragedy of capital’s cultural encroachment is not merely that it sells cosmetics, algorithmizes romance, or commodifies the flesh, but that it alienates us from our own capacity to love and be loved on purely human terms...
Infotainment leads to a decline in human judgment and a crisis of democracy. Democracy is becoming telecracy. Entertainment is the highest priority, to which even politics submits. We amuse ourselves to death.
Infotainment führt zu Verfall menschlichen Urteilskraft und Krise der Demokratie. Aus Demokratie wird Telekratie. Die Unterhaltung ist oberste Gebot, dem auch die Politik sich unterwirft. Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode.
Byung Chul Han: Infokratie
"Capitalism did not invent violence against women — but it did establish a new form of sexism. Capitalism separated the reproductive labor of making people (birthing, feeding, clothing, etc.) from the making of profit, it then assigned the former job to women, and simultaneously devalued it and subordinated it to the latter."
https://www.upstreampodcast.org/_files/ugd/c8d740_e1d76f8f211a47a89a4de68f458fc3ec.pdf
Sometimes, when I am at my best, when I am not too distracted and able to peek under the veil of the immanence of production and consumption, and for a moment feel liberated from the forces of alienation, I see illuminated threads of interconnectedness.
The interconnectedness presupposes that things do not occur and could not be understood in isolation, that phenomena are only complete in their relation to each other.
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When life gives you lemons, make a cocktail. Molotov cocktail with lemon flavor.
Mmm!! Mama mia, explosively delicious!
A long time ago, I first experienced love in the womb. I barely remember it. I only know that love surrounded me. It was inside and outside. Love that didn’t know any boundaries. I was connected to its unlimited source and received everything that I needed without asking. It was all accessible and all present at any moment, all the time.
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"Capital tries to enclose everything within its cycle in order to multiply itself. Spirituality too [...] falls victim to it. The booming mindfulness industry degrades spirituality into a technique for increasing efficiency and performance, a technique of self-optimization or stress reduction. What we are dealing with here is spiritual consumption."
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