latenightnoir

Trump, if nothing else, will be remembered by history as the US President with the shiniest boots.

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Yes! Yuzna is so underrated...

Commiserations and welcome to the family! We're sad to have you decaying with us for the rest of the ride!

Please speak to the nearest Millennial for an orientation guide and your *complementary swag bag!

*Swag bags, herein and above referred to as "swag bags" are not complementary, numbing agents have to be purchased as regularly.

Given the rate at which The Internet as a whole consumes cat stuff, we're liable to end up with a server overflow this way...

Might say it'd cause a... choke? Because that spam would... ball up? So it'd be a ball of representations of... furry things?

I sure miss the days when my propaganda was firm and well-rounded...

Looks like the blob lady from Faust: Love of The Damned was there.

This is exactly why Existentialism is fascinating to me, the question always stays the same, but the answers are as varied as the people who are offering them. Which pretty much leads to the conclusion that THE answer to "what now" is "learn what floats your boat then keep it sailing."

That does make some sense, but the whole idea of privatising the distribution of life-sustaining gasses while it isn't strictly needed gives me the creeps.

As per your example, there's still air at high altitude, and the body does just fine in adjusting to the variation; would not have a problem with medical uses for people who have cardiopulmonary issues, to be clear.

It feels like putting the pot on the burner and starting it up at Low, y'know?

Nietzsche's philosophy had a lot in common with Camus's, the main difference being that Camus framed his ideas in a very "Pop!" and relatively hedonistic way (of the times, not necessarily his doing).

They both essentially focus on the absence of meaning and its tangible effects on the human psyche, while encouraging the individual to persevere in Individuating in spite of there being no pre-defined purpose for doing it - do the growth for growth's sake, for your own soul's sake, if you will.

Imo, they also differ in the fact that, I feel, Nietzsche somewhat hinted at the human being taking up the reins of the God it killed, becoming godly unto itself. I don't think this came out of a sense of superiority, rather that he felt we had a responsibility to pick up the works of the God we killed. (edit:) Which upon further consideration, may actually be born of a sense of superiority after all, in that we can totally pick up the divine reins, no sweat!

Camus just wanted us all to be Promethean offshoots, laughing our asses off in the face of God/absence of God* and doing our own shit.

Just throwing in my thoughts: the second paragraph looks like a (no judgement, I do the same) self-indulgently artsy way of laying out the reasons why practical people maintain the use of workshops, while simultaneously trying to let reality speak for itself through the list.

I'm not super-familiar with Kropotkin's theses and ideology, but from what I know, he seems very against single-point control, such as that found in pyramidal hierarchies. With this and solely the information offered in the snippet, it seems to me that he's trying to highlight the continued intent to control the masses, employed through these workshops.

To add, from what I remember about the National Workshops set up by France, they didn't really solve unemployment, rather they kinda' used up unemployed people like prisoners are used up by America nowadays - lotsa' work, basically no pay, but heavily advertising the idea of "giving the downtrodden a purpose." This serves to pacify the employed bit of the population as well (It's Being Handled™, I don't need to look into it, shit's fixed). But the proletariat gained no power through this, the owner stayed the same.

Plus they were back out in the dirt as soon as the workshops were closed down, another point of caution.

Edit: to be clear, this is mostly speculation and deduction on my part, so I may be completely off the mark with it.

I think that not knowing about The Game is the only way to not lose the game:))) You lost it the instant you remembered about it, so... my bad?=)))