The second stage is perversion of reality, where people come to believe that the sign is an unfaithful copy, which “masks and denatures” reality as an “evil appearance—it is of the order of maleficence”. Here, signs and images do not faithfully reveal reality to us, but can hint at the existence of an obscure reality which the sign itself is incapable of encapsulating.
not looking forward to the 3rd and 4th stages tbh
Cargo cult urbanism
CTV
Of course this abomination is Canadian, the unholy synthesis of Europe and America
i’ve seen these in the U.S. too. i was hoping the one I saw was the only one
Yeah, saw these everywhere when I was at OSU.
horrific
This is like if the Half Life 2 Combine were a treat company
this is the kind of thing that most of my family would be dismissive of my critiques, because it “looks nice” from their vantage point of a suburban parking lot. I come from a deeply incurious tribe.
increasingly, my sense of intimacy and connection with people is mediated by our capacity for acknowledging and rejecting the absurdity of the world being presented to us as normal and desirable.
some are happy when Mickey Mouse hands them a candy bar and resent me for party pooping all over the magic spell by perceiving the guy making shit wage in a hot, heavy costume handing out diabetes and heart disease because a machine of assholes have an agenda.
increasingly, my sense of intimacy and connection with people is mediated by our capacity for acknowledging and rejecting the absurdity of the world being presented to us as normal and desirable.
Same, thanks for this comment, what a nice little seed crystal it was to precipitate out the supersaturated angst from my mind. I’ve felt this way for a while… maybe forever, but never really was able to pin it down.
People say they cherish authenticity, well, here’s what that looks like y’all
points at the tenses honey, you just gave a picture example, this isn’t a ‘They will’ anymore…they are
I thought it was an accepted form to describe ongoing things that will continue, like the phrase “murica will bomb your country and 20 years later will make a movie about how bombing civilians made their soldiers sad”, it’s not something that just will happen but something that happened, happens and will continue to happen.
You can accept whatever you want, wording it this way specifically enables disassociation of the present, no matter what is ‘accepted’
It’s a tactic, and shows/culminates a disconnect of real world events happening right now as a hypothetical
‘murica will bomb your country’ is specifically vague on purpose to push propaganda points and thought bubbles rather than calling America out for specifically doing these things in countries already and holding them accountable, this alights the idea in your head that you could be next, which is a propaganda tactic
Not saying you couldn’t be next, but rather the invitation of this kinda mindset creates a ‘new victim’ mentality, instead of ‘Heel this influence and work against it’ in a revolution way, it’s a ‘Youll be next and you can’t stop it’
are you sure you are not reading way too much into it?
Are you sure that you’re not aware of giving political pundents on social media ‘the benefit of the doubt’ when it’s very obviously the status quo of political commentary?
Just so you’re aware, I’m not calling the post wrong, I’m calling into light the usage of verbage in psychological dissemination as an anchor for disassociation and trauma reactions of ‘Im gonna be next’ instead of ‘we should fix this issue that happening right now’ with MANY pundents on media, this is psychology, this is how word choice works
And before you say ‘Oh this isn’t political’ yes honey, rampant capitalism treatment of spaces to promote ‘optics’ in lue of hiding how they’re destroying community spaces, is political, it’s about controlling the narrative of how you perceive the community around you
nauseating
