Another rabbit-warren, another distraction.
I binged on MobTube, which is the shorthand for the phenomenon of Mafia-adjacent people in a post-Mafia world turning to YouTube and trying to make a living by talking about This Thing of Ours, which barely exists, and mostly died out because pretty much every single one of them turned Rat.
They … “co-operated”. With the Machine. Like a lot of normal people do, and so it all dies.
This is about the only really interesting thing that came out of my hours of listening while Cleaning.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s all Hatred.”
“If people don’t Hate you, you’re not interesting. You just aren’t.”
The Kardashians. The Jersey Shore. “Just a bunch of complete idiots, but people loved it.”
“I think Kim Kardashian is a transcendent human being that we need to study and understand.”
Do tell.
“Eventually society will fall because of people like that (within) it, won’t it?”
The other guy, laughing: “You would hope!”
I think it will.
And, more or less, yes I would. Because your analysis, wiseguys, is mostly correct, and even the fall of this societal regime would probably be better than this society as we know it just continuing to churn on; in the same way that even President Donald II: The Orange Sequel, would be (in one very specific way) preferable to the current Alzheimer’s patient pretending to run the show.
Better than the revolting spectacle of hatred cynically posing itself as Joy.
“Just don’t keep lying to me.”
Yeah. That is the interesting part, that The People. Here in this Democracy. Are so fuckin’ sick of being lied to, about everything all the time, that they would rather blow the whole thing up, burn the whole thing down, than have to be force-fed multi-layered bullshit about Everything, from the top, for another four years.
I’m not predicting anything either way.
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I’m just trying to stay clean, and undistracted if I can, most days, here in the hole, isolated from the gen-pop.
Determining what your “interests” or mine really are is complicated, but a lot of it comes down to cold hard cash, or individual perceptions of what will put more of it into our pockets, or give us more “freedom” regarding how we might spend it.
“Our interests” differ, for pretty stark and practical reasons that are not hard to see …
if you’re choosing to honestly look hard enough.
Interests. What is Interesting, and why. Trying to turn the trick of seeing it all from a DisInterested perspective, or trying to decide whether that’s even a thing … trying to decide whether Jim Carrey might be on to something, or Crazy, and whether crazy is even a thing.