Somehow this makes me sad. I have watched so much irrelevant shit that I dont know if I even enjoyed it and certainly dont remember any of watching them. Well time to find a mindless twitch vtuber so I dont need to think.
What is are a waste of time really. If what you are doing with your free time makes you happy, that's all that's needed. Life is too short not too enjoy it as much as possible. If that means watching looney toons and drinking beer, awesome sounds like fun! Sitting in a hot bath/tub reading comics and selling champagne, that seems like fun too! Regretting what you enjoyed in the moment because it wasn't something more profound isn't healthy. Enjoy your life however you want to enjoy it.
It's actually insane how pacified our society has become. We don't even find it strange anymore. Bread and circuses indeed
During WWII, the Nazis figured out a lot how to industrialise a lot of things. One of these was propaganda. After the war, that research didn't disappear, it's be expanded upon, massively.
The end result is that we are pigeons play chess with a master. We don't even understand the rules of the game, let alone the strategies required to win.
The end result is that we are pigeons play chess with a master. We don’t even understand the rules of the game, let alone the strategies required to win.
Lol very true. This pigeon refuses to play their arbitrary games. I'd rather poop on their faces.
Unfortunately, that also means you lose the game. The prize being the attention and direction of the masses.
Not necessarily. In fact, I would argue the only way to win is not to play. But this analogy is very loose, not really sure how much further it can be stretched.
Unfortunately, you not playing is an ideal outcome for them. It's more brave new world than 1984. Most of the effort is to stop us paying attention to what they are doing, and stoping us reacting to that. If they can get us to react the wrong way, souch the better, but they don't need us to.
I'd argue getting people to do any BUT not play is a win for us. Our only advantage is weight of numbers. By not playing, you are taking yourself off the scales.
Huh I'm confused. My position is that change from within the system is essentially impossible, and it is necessary to build structures and communities outside of the reach of the capitalist hegemony in order to bring it down. Thus, not playing into their game.
Numbers don't matter in capitalism, all of the power comes from possession of capital and control over the means of production, which is currently monopolized by a small global oligarchy. Any attempt to infiltrate this system seems to inevitably lead to the infiltrator becoming that which they sought to overthrow, namely an oppressor.
Calvin and Hobbes is deep yo
Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
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