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I try to distinct between personal Self-design and circumstantial Self-image. Latter is common, prior can bring about a Selfrealisation in form of a reflection-projection equation.

How can you tell what is indirectly ‘you’ and what is made by ‘you’?

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@”Rubsy” said she will be doing a thread about vitalism and how its language has been used within topics like this and many others, all the way to standard politics.

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Note the part about welcoming the apocalypse!

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I read it in Richard Harlands book Superstructuralism towards the end.

I’m just looking around now for more quotes.
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Here is a PDF I just found that might be of interest here: http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/benjamin-noys-excerpt.pdf

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Jesn Baudrillard scares me in this regard, annihilation for annihilation sake!

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Not all academics are accelerationists.

Accelerationism relies on the narcissistic belief that, if things got worse, people who were uninformed of systemic problems would come to see the same objective truth you see, because it’s so obvious. When in reality, the perception of systemic problems can be shaped heavily by media, and those who are in power are going to have a better chance of coordinating their media to shape uninformed people’s perceptions, and in doing so, convince them to work in ways to reinforce their positions of power. (see: the absolute Republican control over Kansas, even as the entire state goes further down the drain).

The Weimar Republic is the most notorious example that this revolutionary strategy could just as well backfire and send the working class heading into the complete opposite direction. This is especially true when the Communist Party uses some of the same antisemitic and nationalist talking points as the fascists.

Turning the former regime to ash does not automatically guarantee that something better will replace it and one may in fact end up with something that much harder to move away from. The political barometer does not suddenly reset to zero like resetting the mileage counter on a car; it can just shift to a position that’s even harder to work to a better state from, if even at all. People wishing for change have to start from where they are now and do the hard, grinding toil of making it better every step of the way and clawing every scrap of progress and not give up their ground instead of resigning themselves to waiting for complete overthrow to start from the ruins of the old order.

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This is to say that what we describe as our experience of an object as a subject, you are no longer ‘in’ it; others can re-create certain sensations based on experiences they might have had, but that is all.

No distinction between subject and object, no evaluation, no discrimination was there, it was non-discriminative wisdom – which introduces us to the heart of reality.

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You can save drafts to your own profile, even in the writers area I would prefer a bit more order to be honest. 

As regards the images for avatars, download them to your phone and switch to full version, go to UCP and you will find the avatar options there.

Also, your titles are like imperatives, rather than descriptions, each category already has imperatives of what content goes where, there isn’t much anyone would search for from those types of titles. 

Try to shorten posts and titles. Have more full stops and commas too, I am exhausted at the end of each paragraph! 

Sorry to go all grammar nazi on you. See the posts me and Rubsy have been doing, single line titles, a link/video and one question or overall topic to focus on per thread. 

I would save your drafts and then take one paragraph for a thread if I was you, instead of loads of subjects at once – it’s too much to contemplate while out and about on a phone,  members don’t have that much time and will probably forget your post as other threads open up.

It’s great you are so active and more members are interacting here and there, but I think the forum will be a better all round experience for all members if we slow down, be more succinct and simpler, spread it out.

If you click on your UCP, you have access to saved drafts and there is a personal notepad, scroll down in your UCP, you should see it.

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The comfortable well fed animal – I am not buying that. Everywhere I hear this, ‘well there isn’t starvation and poverty in my life, so I see no reason to take these things seriously’ kind of chatter.

Accelerationism gathers pace due to apathy and the religion of comfort.

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Dude, this post is a mess.

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So do you see it as a state of nature?

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Yes, there most certainly is the improved capability with this technology to see what was otherwise assumed to be being ‘taken care of’, but there is also a backlash of interests on social media who need people to be ignorant cosmopolitans.

I recently rejoined and left again, this time permanently –  mainly down to the amount of vitriol on there.
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The Anarchist Tension by Alfredo Bonanno is worth a read regarding political movements coming together.

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The major confusion is no one has cleared up whether or not Bitcoin is a currency, or a commodity.

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Thread moved to Economics section.

I’m kind of aware of Bitcoin, but please go ahead @”schi” tell us more!

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The only ‘informing’ the lower masses seem most interested in on Facebook is stuff like conspiracy nonsense, racist oversimplifications and slacktivism aplenty. 

Tribes are better thought of as herds, collectives of the comfortable.

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