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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Did not expect this fellow to be invoked on this topic. read both of these but I was even more ignorant at that time so could usefully revisit
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