Okay so banger insight I got from here:

material conditions reign supreme as the foundation of any meaningful program or political convo. This type of analysis cuts laserlike through vast clouds of fluffy, worthless, marketplace of ideas grift style vvvvibes-based “idealistic” baloney.

However.

Vibes, also, are a thing. Often enough vibes become material conditions. People fight, work, organize, sacrifice and die for Vibes. Non material elements can rally support around a material cause.

What are good ways to think about the relationship between material conditions and… idealism, pure “politics”, lofty rhetoric, untethered wishful thinking… vibes. I’m hoping some well-read comrade will bless us with thought or maybe a reading rec

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  • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    you might get something out of hunter s thompsons writings. the feeling of change being in the air is something that comes up in his books, particularly fear & loathing in las vegas and fear & loathing on the campaign trail of 72. he was a pretty politically aware and astute man (see his prophetic take in his sports column on september 12th, 2001). he never invoked marx in his writing and I don’t know what his awareness of theory really was, but he was generally on the right side of history

      • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        his hell’s angels book is worth reading, as is the great shark hunt as well. in the HA one he rides with a gang for a while before getting stomped and bailing. the great shark hunt is a series of long form articles about the Caribbean and Latin America. the titular story is about his coverage of a big fishing competition and is as close to fear and loathing in las vegas as anything else he’s written

    • LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      The Battle of the World Trade Center lasted about 99 minutes and cost 20,000 lives in two hours (according to unofficial estimates as of midnight Tuesday). The final numbers, including those from the supposedly impregnable Pentagon, across the Potomac River from Washington, likely will be higher. Anything that kills 300 trained firefighters in two hours is a world-class disaster.

      20,000

      9/11

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