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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoDEBATE: Who is Responsible for "Woke?" (with Musa al-Gharbi) - YouTube2026-06-26T05:13:05+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPRkXbpFjs
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https://reallifemag.com/worn-out/
robertogrecofashion culture technology drewaustin 2021 commons siliconvalley vanessafriedman publicspace hannahmurphy victoriahitchcock uniform uniforms clothing markzuckerberg marshallmcluhan understandingmedia society hannaharendt appearance gordonhull efficiency uber lyft doordash socialmedia facebook instagram tiktok airpods platforms microsoft nealstephenson nfts metaverse jonahweiner fellowship cynicism experiencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5ef6f172f701/The Poet's Vision - by Steve Knepper2026-03-22T02:23:56+00:00
https://newversereview.substack.com/p/the-poets-vision
robertogrecosteveknepper ryanwilson poetry 2026 gratitute hospitality creation cynicism civilization attention beauty giftgiving gifts language wrirting howwewritehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3e3cbd5ad47c/The Swiss Watch Industry Needs Bernhard Lederer's Philosophy2026-01-02T12:57:08+00:00
https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/bernhard-lederers-watchmaking-philosophy-could-liberate-the-swiss-watch-industry/
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https://www.leahreich.com/the-global-fraud-economy/
robertogrecoleahreich 2025 fraud meta facebook instagram ads advertising society economics internet web online socialmedia scams reddit quora cynicism trust us nfts crypto cryptocurrencies sportsgambling gambling sports blackmarkethttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ce5c1c5f79f9/There are too many waterfalls here - by Rob Horning2025-10-20T21:00:08+00:00
https://robhorning.substack.com/p/there-are-too-many-waterfalls-here
robertogrecoA Londoner spreading deepfakes of white women saying they don’t feel safe ‘because of migrants’ told me impatiently that everyone knows the videos aren’t real, but I was missing the point: ‘It’s about us showing everyone what’s really happening.’
Generated video allows consumers to inoculate themselves against events and representations that don’t conform to their schema by instantly offering alternatives that soothe them and match their expectations: They can enjoy their own ideological interpellation as a movie, or an endless feed.
But also key to generated images appeal us the ease with which they bring ideology before one’s senses. It supplements algorithmic feeds’ tendency to make the worldview tailored to one’s consumption patterns seem ubiquitous and self-evident, beyond question.
If you have to work to imagine the images to confirm an ideological distortion of how the world works, you begin to lose the libidinal benefits of that worldview, which grant a kind of identity that requires no work to articulate. Whereas the fact that a machine can generate these “true-feeling” images instantly confirms that the images can do what they are supposed to do, which is to protect us from thinking. Generative models are well suited to articulating ideas and wishes that people don’t want to have to make the effort to think through themselves, because the “pleasure” (such as it is) in them is in their apparent automaticity, in the speed with which prejudice formats and pre-digests and orders the world.
Video generators allow people to experience ideas or beliefs as content without their having to invest their imagination into making them real, into “really” believing in them and coming to terms with the implications of their beliefs. They are more like gaming engines than truth simulators."]]>robhorning slop aislop sora openai socialmedia 2025 generativeai samaltman ethics ellismaberger bitmoji agi artificialgeneralintelligence tiktok algorithms brynehobarth yvescitton clairewimot video cynicism ryanbroderick trust tastemakers documentary documentation accelerationism aesthetics genaihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:56a2b7e4bb20/It's Anarchist Season with Alexis Shotwell - YouTube2025-10-03T04:20:16+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3evGc0mF5Y
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https://jasmi.news/p/china-2025
robertogrecoGeertz’s theory of involution holds that a greater input (an increase in labor) does not yield proportional output (more crops and innovation)... Involution is “the experience of being locked in competition that one ultimately knows is meaningless,” Biao told me. It is acceleration without a destination, progress without a purpose, Sisyphus spinning the wheels of a perpetual-motion Peloton.
Chinese solar companies battling to the death? Involution. High schoolers spending Saturdays out-prepping each other for the gaokao? Involution. Six hotpot restaurants side-by-side on a single mall floor? Involution. Boba delivery that somehow costs less than pickup? Dance, dance, involution.2"
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"Overall, my trip was a blast. There are other places in Asia I’d like to visit—Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand—but whenever the opportunity presents itself, I find myself returning to China again and again. Part of this is family ties, part is a preference for depth over breadth. But a substantial component is sheer fascination, and a solipsistic desire to understand China so that I might better understand America and myself.
There’s a saying that goes something like “After one week in China, you feel you could write a book. After one year, you think you could write an article. After ten years, you realize you know nothing.” I am currently in the second stage of hubris, so forgive me for the generalizations I will surely regret. This irreducibility is a function of both China’s size and speed: it’s a country still modernizing at a mind-bending pace, its future still radically undetermined. Shanghai recently surpassed Taipei in my personal city ranking simply because it feels so different on every trip. For the first time, I grokked why someone might cross the Pacific Ocean, then turn back again. Expats there are all addicted to the pace of change; everywhere else is slow in comparison. It’s the same reason I love San Francisco, for all its thorns—China is a place where things actually happen.
I often hear that things are worse now, compared to the golden years of the late 2000s. Politically, it’s true, but it’s hard to leave feeling too pessimistic. Choppy waters train the strongest swimmers. I prefer spending time in places like this: where God-like technologies meet our medieval institutions and Paleolithic emotions. These sites produce the most interesting questions: What does modernization feel like, in your bones? What is it like to live in a place that transforms—physically, culturally, spiritually—at this rate? Are you a surfer cresting a wave, or wiping out on the shore? The hurricanes of progress blow fast and hard. The factory girls had it right. Survival is a process of constant self-reinvention."]]>2025 jasminesun shenzhen deepseek shanghai manufacturing consumerism competition siliconvalley china artificialintelligence democracy surveillance wanghuning society afrawang charlesyang aadilali arhunramani progress abundance hangzhou yuyao hongkong dengxiaoping specialexonomiczones policy economics davidsacks donaldtrump tariffs computers computing technology cliffordgeertz indonesia yi-lingliu curtisyarvin liuzhongjing involution cynicism genz generationz zoomers huawai wechat tencent work labor howwework workers xijinping meritocracy jackma tallpoppysyndrome alibaba unitree hikvision west us california sanfrancisco madeinchina mentalhealth changche mollyhuang anxiety traditionalism chagee raydalio consumption excess highspeedrail hsr byd culturalrevolution mosuspace daniellurie saas robots robotics ai heygen elonmusk lesliechang factories ethnography dongguan culture liberty freedom engineering building making markets onechildpolicy taiwan military afrazhaowang menciusmoldbug darkenlightenment nerdreichhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4b258fdecf4d/from counterculture to cyberculture (ft. fred turner)2025-09-26T01:36:21+00:00
https://jasmi.news/p/from-counterculture-to-cyberculture
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https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e63-rolex-vs-gen-x/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9hRuy31JA
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https://defector.com/toward-a-theory-of-kevin-roose
robertogrecoalbertburneko kevinroose boosterism ai artificialintelligence journalism philosophy technology nfts ponzischemes humandignity donaldtrump celebrity crypto cryptocurrencies rugpulls cynicism scams criticism advocacy ideology predictions siliconvalley 2024 deregulation regulation policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ff5d0ef06783/Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People - What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast - YouTube2025-06-16T19:02:18+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk&t=3501s
robertogrecojonstewart trevornoah 2025 context socialmedia behavior grace prejudice stereotypes ignorance racism us media learning judaism christianity israel southafrica africa diaspora discrimination judgement slow thedailyshow humor comedy liberalism intolerance liberals republicans redemption forgiveness conservatives purity puritytests evangelicals democrats perfectionism faith religion stillness ados othering otherness nyc politics coalitions litmustests vindictiveness loyalty fealty travel languages perspective reality criticism donaldtrump joebiden democracy waronterror belief stresstesting constructivecriticism discernment fairness adamchodikoff data arguement factchecking argument howwewrite improvement standards evidence litigation scapegoating demaogues demagoguery meritocracy hiring elonmusk subjectivity objectivity malcolmgladwell dei diversity equity inclusion colleges universities admissions highered highereducation sports performance performativity timidity transparency emergingmakets competition merit bhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:22c825172daf/"The Biggest Problems in Legacy Media" A Conversation With Chris Hedges - YouTube2025-06-04T18:13:43+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4IQz8Ff-A0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrjlOE9e50
robertogrecotaylorlorenz 2025 radicalization us politics covid-19 coronavirus pandemic disabilities disability health healthcare housing police prisons prisonabolition socialsafetynet joebiden nihilism assassination 2020 2024 elections socialmedia memes propaganda media mainstreammedia society equity caresact poverty childcare schoollunches schools policy medicare medicaid tenants eviction access labor productivity economy well-being wellbeing mutualaid communities collectivism collectiveaction emissions carbonemissions climate climatechange globalwarming climatecrisis crisis internet socialjustice justice georgefloyd policing defunding protest potests incarceration profits economics antiwoke power change systemicchange disenchantment work farright rightwing stockmarket consciousness socialconscience jamiecohen online web january6 jan6 insurrection policebrutality republicans violence revolution democracy government governance disillusionment arielhasell cynicism memestocks institutions gaslighting repression left vibeshhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d4ab1972b394/We Have Never Been Woke | Princeton University Press2025-05-10T06:13:18+00:00
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232607/we-have-never-been-woke
robertogrecomusaal-gharbi wokeness elites 2024 culture society antiracism feminism racism race capitalism neoliberalism elitism economics inequality socialjustice nonprofit nonprofits ngos trends hypocrisy cynicism elitecapture dei prejudice justice wokeism pierrebourdieu credentials credentialismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d9fcb5544492/Steven Salaita's Reflections on the Downward Spiral of US Empire & the Fate of the Western Academy - YouTube2025-04-30T00:20:56+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWC9GlznUhk
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https://culture.ghost.io/the-age-of-the-double-sell-out/
robertogrecowdavidmarx 2025 sellouts capitalism art culture stability economics cynicism nihilism left poptimists kelefasanneh 1990s youth youthculture rem stonetemplepilots chuckklosterman music income nirvana pearljam neptunes mrbeast beyoncé georgeclooney ads advertising clipse snoopdog fame jameshoffmann celebrity celebrities socialgoods sellingouthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:35fc58931df3/“Both the US and Israel are delusional” with Jeffrey Sachs - YouTube2025-01-16T03:57:09+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WPlhdM7gMI
robertogrecojeffreysachs israel palestine us gaza westbank makdisistreet 2025 lebanon un internationallaw brics middleeast foreignpolicy international policy manifestdestiny militarism uk imperialism empire colonialism colonization sareemakdisi ussamamakdisi karimmakdisi hegemony coldwar sovietunion ussr military coercion finance power surveillance energy oil petroleum donaldtrump brutality cynicism dedollarization economics china russia korea koreanwar vietnam vietnamwar afghanistan unipolarity multipolarity dollar banks banking transactions federalreserve swift venezuela iran northkorea southkorea ethiopia uae egypt brasil brazil india southafrica sanctions geopolitics internationalrelations foreignaffairs technology persiangulf europe houthis yemen pakistan anniejacobsen nuclearwar navy syria resistance likud likudparty hamas hezbollah wesleyclark paulwolfowitz somalia lybia douglasfeith sudan libya iraq iraqwar benjaminnetanyahu joebiden georgewbush iof idf antonyblinken jakesullivan zealotry twostatesolution politichttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e08da5b9fbed/Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom: 9780593594988 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books2025-01-01T04:18:19+00:00
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/716349/falling-back-in-love-with-being-human-by-kai-cheng-thom/
robertogrecohuman humanity humanism kaichengthom hope love loving healing cynicism 2023 outcasts runaways activismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:15a2fc60ccd3/Democratic Dealignment with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · The Dig2024-11-23T18:27:56+00:00
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/democratic-dealignment-w-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/
robertogreco2024 keeanga-yamahttataylor elections donaldtrump kamalaharris barackobama joebiden democrats reform technocracy continuity economics statusquo 2016 2020 2019 politics us inequality workingclass elitism billclinton neoliberalism populism classconflict welfarestate policy berniesanders danieldenvir smugness housing inflation deathsofdespair race racism blacklivesmatter left whiteprivilege virutuesignaling identitypolitics leftism solidarity knightsoflabor scottwalker iww opposition resistance hostility project2025 governance planning intolerance establishment deepstate government socialmedia online internet web deathpenalty policiebrutality discrimination border borders immigration policereform flipflopping fracking lizcheney iraqwar dickcheney 2008 cynicism history atlanta nyc suppression encampments colleges universities chicago philadelphia debate education politicaleducation copcity culture organizing politicalparties democracy thirdparties ralphnader dsa workingfamiliesparty hustleculture passiveincome crhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:868e02652842/2024 Election was the Oligarchic Elite vs. Corporate Elite (with Chris Hedges) - YouTube2024-11-15T17:00:31+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDj2dUIQcA
robertogrecochrishedges 2024 institutions elections briahnajoygray kamalaharris donaldtrump oligarchy joebiden us society greenpart cornelwest joerogan media mainstreammedia politics democracy fascism israel palestine genocide ethniccleansing left leftism resistance unions organizing morality activism church churches spirituality community labor work capitalism feudalism journalism press celebrities noamchomsky gaza lebanon corporations corporatism democrats republicans berniesanders hillaryclinton barackobama jillstein ralphnader socialism marxism sheldonwolin hierarchy totalitarianism privateequity kkr harvesting finance simonandschuster elonmusk taxation taxes deregulation stevebannon norms decorum civility michelmoore robertreich billclinton demagogues cults cultofpersonality angeladavis voting credibility workers 1996 nafta layoffs unemployment workingclass betrayal 1994 reform kshamasawant civilrightsmovement pressure liberalism liberals neoliberals religion belief war jordanpeterson marxists christianright zionismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52b4b2226784/‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber | Books | The Guardian2024-11-13T18:28:56+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/07/david-graeber-optimistic-anarchist-rebecca-solnit
robertogrecodavidgraeber 2024 rebeccasolnit anarchism change everyday ordinary ows occupywallstreet marcusrediker academia academics highered highereducation workingclass class struggle inequality 1999 1994 zapatistas battleofseattle wto 2011 astrataylor lyndseystonebridge hannaharendt activism anthropology marxism marxists sakalava madagascar cynicism despair despairfatigue outsiders joy hope liberation changemaking ideas debt writing howwewrite politics hierarchy hierarchies horizontality power us mutualaid voluntaryassociation selforganization humans humanity history engagement participation participatory hopelessness coercion bureaucracy mischief elitism unfreedom society civilization barbarism socialhierarchy abundance technology freedom egalitarianism creativity imagination possibility possibilities bullshitjobs socialconstructs narrative variety diversity gender 2020 money finance violence labor work zapatismo emilianozapata chiapas mexico autonomy indigenous indigeneity ezlnhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:57be7509ae69/The Employer-Based Social Safety Is a Disaster. We Can End It.2024-09-30T04:56:35+00:00
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-employer-based-social-safety
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https://faith.yale.edu/media/becoming-whole-in-a-fragmented-age
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMQJrNbgGIo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivd8so3vWjQ
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https://stevesalaita.com/our-your-pitiful-ethics-a-response-to-zadie-smiths-shibboleth/
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https://psyche.co/ideas/william-james-was-right-about-our-strange-inner-experiences
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hey yeah what *was* this. i can see its roots start to emerge by like the 1970s in the form of compulsory derisive juvenile "parody" versions of absolutely everything
… I have no idea. I didn't go to school for this so I'm pretty sure someone at a university has a pretty good lock on why this happened, but yeah, it's kind of an incredibly scary part of our society that I've never seen addressed in any way.
Who told 11 year olds to start casually quipping about killing Barney? I know we weren't enjoying it. It wasn't funny or fun. We felt /compelled/, it was /expected/, and i suspect the motivations were circular with no patient zero to be found.
I can't harp on this enough: Nobody was having fun. Nothing going on on Newgrounds or anywhere else that was in this vein was fun. It wasn't entertaining. Even as dipshit kids, this whole thing was strained.
There was a formula. Nobody knew where it came from, but it seemed to have been there forever. The response to /all/ cultural phenomena was to create something deeply cynical and usually violent and we were doing it like we were punching a clock. The laughs were forced.
I can't prove this. The time has passed, and at the time I had few personal friends. But what my gut told me at the time was that nobody was having a good time, I just didn't know how to read it. Now I definitely know what those feelings meant.
Gravis McElroy Retweeted [ande dooting] [https://twitter.com/quicksilvre/status/976492376645603329 ]
@quicksilvre
Right? It felt like we grew up in an age where we weren't allowed to truly, unironically like things or people
This is exactly on point. We didn't like anything. Nobody liked anything. Nobody admitted to liking anything. Liking things wasn't cool.
And that's how we now have people in their mid thirties who are only just beginning to whisper, on social media where they're ostensibly surrounded by friends, that they /might/ like anime or fantasy novels or or or. Or anything that isn't cynical
Oh btw if you want an example of something that's very very cynical, have you considered: call of shooty
First person shooters were fuckin' *there* for us, ready to swoop in and offer the cynicism we'd been raised with. Kill everything. Blow everything up. Yawn. The nihilism we'd been taught primed the *pump* for that shit.
I always come back to this when I talk about this stuff: knowing what caused this is important because we have millions of people, no, read that again, millions of people who were injured by this and don't know it and are not getting any help culturally.
Every one of them is a problem we have to solve eventually and none of us have any idea how to do that and we have to figure it out. Because we can't just write off a whole generation, "anyone who was young and online in 2000," they are our problem to deal with now.
They are here, and they are permanently angry and hate sincerity, and we actually can't coexist with them. They are turning into nazis because they don't know how not to.
It's nice to think "oh we'll just kill the nazis" but there are more ticking-time-bomb fascists that came out of this than anyone realizes. They feel alone in the world, they don't connect with anyone or anything, they have no anchors at all. They never learned how to be happy.
The fuckface who was bombing black people in Texas probably came out of this shit. He was a little young for newgrounds specifically, but I can see the path to being "radicalized by the void," if you will. becoming a monster because you were taught that becoming a person is wrong
And you know what? The internet is the problem. The internet is a huge fucking problem and we all know it, we all know it's putting shit in front of young people that they aren't ready for. And we knew it then, our parents were right about it, just not right enough.
I don't know what can possibly be done about it. No program of censorship would be right or effective or anything but counterproductive but, fuck, we can't write this off.
In my view we have a tremendous number of dangerous broken men in this nation now specifically because of the unregulated nightmare that the web was in the early 2000s and I don't know what to do with that information but I'm not going to forget it.
that was me just a few years ago. i remember it vividly. the difference between me and Them is solely that someone managed to break through the shell and teach me that it was worth it to be a person, to not sleepwalk through life.
https://medium.com/mammon-machine-zeal/ultraviolent-flash-games-after-9-11-b416b836f28e … I'm linking this again because ZEAL deserves the credit for this thread; that article prompted a lot of thought about old memories. They post a lot of insightful stuff that benefits IMO from not being produced by a massive corporate publication."
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[also: https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/976499065461469184
Newgrounds and all those other edgy early 2000s hellholes are all Superfund sites. Sad, shitty things we look back on and say "okay, okay, we fucked up," but even as the words spill out of our mouths we are pouring soil for a new development over another toxic waste dump.
They are not places of honor, no esteemed deed is commemorated there, this thread is a message and part of a system of messages, et cetera. We need to not just skip over this. What is being created /right now/ that is equivalent to those?
https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/976497457151451136 … also i'd like to clarify this, because I meant to, or felt like i should, or something
The fuckface who was bombing black people in Texas probably came out of this shit. He was a little young for newgrounds specifically, but I can see the path to being "radicalized by the void," if you will. becoming a monster because you were taught that becoming a person is wrong
by "radicalized by the void" I mean that there is a sort of person who does not want to be a person, who hates the idea of becoming a person and the responsibility associated with it. they want nothing more than to be left alone to be mediocre.
a lot of mediocre white men, from the person vomiting slurs on 4c han to the nazis in the street, feel that society is trying to force them to reflect on themselves and /that is what they want to stop/.
It's important to acknowledge that this is true, that their perceived struggle is real, and that our intent is to not let them live the lives they want to live because they are implicitly harmful. We do not have the luxury of apathy, it invariably results in harming the innocent.
The war being fought right now is over apathy. we all know the article by now: "I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People." that is the fight here. And they know it.
what we were taught, implicitly, by our peers, when I was a kid, is that caring is bad, and thinking about yourself is bad, and yes there's an amount of "eww that's what gays and women do" tied up in there, but ultimately it's just an intense aversion to responsibility
they know it. they are aware of it. and when people say things like "i wasn't going to be a nazi but you forced my hand by demanding i be decent" we need to understand that that ISN'T gibberish no matter how wrong and shitty it is.
their intent, by and large, is to not be aware of the world. they don't want to know about anything. they don't want to hear about how their actions impact others because that sounds like a lot of shit they would be compelled to deal with.
"radicalized by the void": a person who has spent years comatose, barely aware of their existence, who is being woken from that sleep and is lashing out with all the energy they can muster in order to return to their oblivion
that was me just a few years ago. i remember it vividly. the difference between me and Them is solely that someone managed to break through the shell and teach me that it was worth it to be a person, to not sleepwalk through life.
https://medium.com/mammon-machine-zeal/ultraviolent-flash-games-after-9-11-b416b836f28e … I'm linking this again because ZEAL deserves the credit for this thread; that article prompted a lot of thought about old memories. They post a lot of insightful stuff that benefits IMO from not being produced by a massive corporate publication."
[also: https://twitter.com/jakewyattriot/status/976672499885793281 ]
"cosign. the casual, omnidirectional hate socially required of teenage boys from 199X-200X consumed and almost destroyed me as a person, and were it not for a near-magical confluence of good influences and people at the end of high school, i don't who what I would be.
@gravislizard
https://twitter.com/quicksilvre/status/976492376645603329 … This is exactly on point. We didn't like anything. Nobody liked anything. Nobody admitted to liking anything. Liking things wasn't cool.
which is not an excuse for anyone's shittiness or anyone's atrocities, just a nod to what we all know: evil is banal, happens without real intent or effort. evil is adopting a pose that makes you feel strong or edgy as young man, never dropping it, 'defending' it with violence.
evil is trying on casual sexism, racism, homophobia to fit in with your awful teen friends. liking the fit. becoming what you pretended. growing protective of it. doubling down anytime someone calls you on it. becoming proud of that. trying to punish anyone who challenges you."]]>crime masculinity terrorism internet 2018 2009s 9/11 children youth cynicism violence death emotion hate suffering newgrounds socialmedia callofduty nihilism mentalillness censorship apathy void self-worth life care caring society reflection responsibility personhood evil sexism racism homophobia teenshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:61552efa7f08/Diogenes - Wikipedia2018-03-11T20:02:24+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes
robertogrecoThere are four reasons why the Cynics are so named. First because of the indifference of their way of life, for they make a cult of indifference and, like dogs, eat and make love in public, go barefoot, and sleep in tubs and at crossroads. The second reason is that the dog is a shameless animal, and they make a cult of shamelessness, not as being beneath modesty, but as superior to it. The third reason is that the dog is a good guard, and they guard the tenets of their philosophy. The fourth reason is that the dog is a discriminating animal which can distinguish between its friends and enemies. So do they recognize as friends those who are suited to philosophy, and receive them kindly, while those unfitted they drive away, like dogs, by barking at them.[58]
As noted (see Death), Diogenes' association with dogs was memorialized by the Corinthians, who erected to his memory a pillar on which rested a dog of Parian marble.[39]"]]>philosophy stoicism cynicism diogenes simplicity simpleliving voluntarypoverty criticism society voluntarysimplicity dogs presence present everyday plato ancientgreece socrates practice praxis obscenity cvhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b05904961b37/OCCULTURE: 67. Carl Abrahamsson & Mitch Horowitz in “Occulture (Meta)” // Anton LaVey, Real Magic & the Nature of the Mind2018-02-25T19:40:38+00:00
https://45minuteradiohour.libsyn.com/67-carl-abrahamsson-mitch-horowitz-in-occulture-meta-anton-lavey-spiritual-migration-re-enchanting-the-mind-0
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https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/934472831789826048
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https://newrepublic.com/article/123561/dont-buy-this-jacket
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http://harpers.org/archive/2016/05/the-habits-of-highly-cynical-people/?single=1
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSwW0zc-QBQ
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https://github.com/greyscalepress/manifestos/blob/master/content/manifestos/1985-GNU-manifesto.md
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http://www.uctv.tv/shows/UCSD-Guestbook-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-5001
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNVKoX40ZAo
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http://hapgood.us/2015/10/24/the-banal-uselessness-of-the-utopian-binary-critique/
robertogrecoThem: “If this cannot solve all problems, then how can we be excited about it?”
Me: “But I didn’t say it solved all problems!”
Them: “Aha! So you admit it doesn’t solve anything!”
Me: “Um, which one of us is utopian again?”
This approach suffers the same affliction, assuming that we must compare a proposed solution against the standard of an imagined perfect world rather than a screwed up current state.
I’ve come to realize that, no matter how many caveats you add to your writing, people for whom the status quo works will always reply that your ideas are interesting, but why are they so binary, so utopian? I used to take these critiques seriously, but I don’t anymore. It’s simply a rhetorical move to avoid comparing your solution with a status quo that is difficult for them to defend.
It’s like replying to a presentation on solar-powered cars with “But why can’t we have both solar powered cars AND gasoline cars?” Or with “But there will still be pollution from BUILDING the cars so you haven’t solved anything!”
It’s like replying to a presentation on scaling down the American military in favor of increasing foreign relief aid with “But why can’t we have both the American military AND foreign relief aid?” Or with “But foreign relief aid STILL doesn’t always reach the most vulnerable, so you haven’t solved anything!”
It’s like replying to a presentation on Global Warming with “But why can’t find a balance between controlling global warming and protecting business interest?” Or “But global warming is going to happen anyway, so you haven’t solved anything!”
There’s as little chance that the world is going to go overboard on Jesse’s Peter Elbow inspired grading models as there is that we’re going to veer too much toward addressing global warming or decreasing U. S. Military funding (appx. $2,000 per capita) relative to our foreign aid (about $70 per capita). There’s as little chance that our “Pull to Refresh” obsessed culture is going to go overboard with wiki as there is that solar-powered vehicles will result in a war against gas-powered cars.
People who make such objections are not serious people, or in any not case serious thinkers in that moment. The reason we make binaries in our comparisons is to show how unbalanced the status quo is. The “binary” of pitting military spending against foreign aid is to show how out of balance out priorities are, just as the “binary” of Jesse’s holistic grading against more rigid models is to show how little time we spend on the whole student. And the reason we posit the binary of the “nontraditional student” against the “traditional student” is that 90% of policy and conversation right now is directed at the latter, and separating these details can show this.
The Garden approach I outlined at dLRN might not work, and holistic grading might fail at the scale people need to use it at. That solar car may run up against physical and environmental realities that make it unfeasible. Our policies to help the nontraditional student may solve the wrong issues, or assume a political climate we don’t have right now. Foreign aid may be better directed at world hunger or medical research, or perhaps there are good reasons for spending $800 billion on a military. Perhaps, far from making things better, a set of proposals would make things worse in ways the historically literate can predict. All these are interesting points, and great follow-ups to presentations outlining potential courses of action.
Additionally, some binaries are ill-formed, and give a distorted picture of reality. That’s an interesting point as well. Is androgogy/pedagogy a more helpful lens on a particular issue than first-generation/nth-generation? Does the research support a division like “Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants”? (hint: it doesn’t).
These are great questions too.
“Why so utopian?” and “Why so binary?” Not so much.
Here’s my pitch to you, and it is always the same. I think we can do substantially better than we do now, in a way that benefits most people. I think it requires rethinking some assumptions about how we teach and how we tech. I think the positive impact is likely relative to how deep we’re willing to go in questioning current assumptions.
So, if you like the status quo, or think it’s better than what is proposed, then defend it! If you think my ideas will not be adopted or will make things worse, then show me why!
But to the Utopian Binary comment crowd: Stop pretending people like Jesse and I are making utopian, either/or arguments. It’s a lazy rhetorical move, I’m tired of it, and you’re taking time from people with real questions."
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http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2015/an-xiao-mina-activism-affirmation-internet
robertogrecoxiaomina 2015 activism hongkong protest occupywallstreet ows affirmation cynicism change socialchange art creativity microaffirmations microaggressions socialjustice echochambershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e977f663215c/I no longer have patience | Ioadicaeu's Blog2014-09-05T18:11:26+00:00
http://ioadicaeu.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/i-no-longer-have-patience/
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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/young-minds-in-critical-condition/
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http://blog.postarchitectural.com/18-Webstock-2014-Talk-Notes-and-References
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https://medium.com/weird-future/de88dbc1f17c
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http://www.bratton.info/projects/talks/we-need-to-talk-about-ted/
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http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977
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