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Sometimes I end up hearing about some famous actor celeb type death as a thing people are talking about online and it feels weird to watch because they’ll be all sad about it and I’m just sitting there thinking like “ok.” Like it’s not that I don’t sympathize about loss, but at some point some years back, I decided I didn’t want to have anything to do with celeb stuff anymore. And as a result of that and class consciousness and such, what I see when I hear about X famous celebrity death is “some rich person I don’t know died.” They probably weren’t an overtly terrible person or a notably good one, but then again, in the Yankee celebrity sphere, they could have easily been a lowkey zionist. So all the more reason not to put them on a pedestal. They may have done some good work as an entertainer, but if that’s reason for me to mourn them, there’s a long list of nurses and teachers and so on whose names I don’t know who I feel I should be mourning the loss of long before I ever bother with the sympathy for an entertainer celeb death.
I mean, I value the arts as a medium and I value the work people put into entertaining others, but mourning the loss of some entertainers who got a bougie life off of being popular as an entertainer doesn’t seem like a good use of my energy.
Oh, if you were referring to Patrick Stewart as the recent celeb that died, that one is an interesting case. He interpreted Lenin in Fall of Eagles. Some scenes are very good.
He’s one among more than one I’ve heard mentioned recently-ish (I forget who the others were). But that is cool to know.
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Its interesting [and kinda annoying] being in like, a Niche’s Niche. Like there’s barely anyone to talk to about certain games. Especially if they’re beyond the language barrier
I was reading chapter 3 of The Capital vol. 1.
So, as far as I understand it, Marx is laying the groundwork for understanding capital. It’s easy to see this by how money kind of “outlasts” the commodities being exchanged. It keeps circulating even when commodities are consumed.
However, I kind of don’t understand why Marx starts to talk about gold in the section The Currency of Money.
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[…] Money, on the contrary, as the medium of circulation, keeps continually within the sphere of circulation, and moves about in it. The question therefore arises, how much money this sphere constantly absorbs?
In a given country there take place every day at the same time, but in different localities, numerous one-sided metamorphoses of commodities, or, in other words, numerous sales and numerous purchases. The commodities are equated beforehand in imagination […]
As a matter of fact, the money in reality represents the quantity or sum of gold ideally expressed beforehand by the sum of the prices of the commodities. […] We know, however, that, the values of commodities remaining constant, their prices vary with the value of gold. (Why mention this?)
Maybe it’s the fact that bourgeois education taught me to treat money strictly as an abstract thing so I can’t the connection, but I don’t know why Marx decided to mention gold here when we are talking about price and circulation.
I’ll try to read it again tomorrow.
Edit: I got it
Glad it clicked. Those foundational chapters of Capital are a bit of a slog but once they click together you get a way more complete understanding of the core ideas of economics that most people just assume they understand based on vibes and subjective context.
I’ve been thinking. For me the world has basically been, for the most part, physically stagnant. The concrete is the same, the city is the same. The infrastructure is the same, maybe the air is a little bit cleaner. Beyond the internet and electric cars, it feels like I’ve grown up while the world around me has grown old.
While in china [at least on the coast], I can imagine someone my age remembers smog, backwaterenedness, the factories being replaced with these high tech, clean, safe cities as they grew up.
Idk this is my daily dose of pretension feel free to move on
I don’t know if you should worry about pretension. I have had similar thoughts and feelings, and I mostly chalk it up to a lack of economic activity.
This is not just in response to the condition of the built environment but for emptiness of the streets as well - there are plenty of people that live in this or that neighborhood, but it seems everyone is inside on their devices. I love content just as much as the next guy, but if we (Western core perspective) had a healthier society and a healthier economy, I think that you would see more people out doing something productive (either economically or socially).
I love you comrades. 🤗
i had a dream polish reactionaries were annoying the fuck out of me. i don’t know why, i’m not from poland or anywhere related, haven’t talked to a pole in ever
it was kind of hilarious. i’ve been pretty sick and am also in australia rn. the dream came in a nap shortly after i had taken medication that made me really drowsy and seen a falun gong table outside that made me chortle. i guess i came back and dozed off mad as hell about anti-communist misinfo
i distinctly remember having very lucid (as in cogent, not aware i was dreaming) thoughts in my dream, i don’t know the context but i was on the rooftop somewhere (i think i had lost toys up there, and was angrily trying to gather them, which was unrelated to anything else) grumbling about revisionist history where ussr was ‘expansionist’ with regards to molotov-ribbentrop, or however ussr conducted themselves during or after ww2
i remember some guy my dream imagined who was anti-communist polish and writing young adult, space themed novels about poland post ww2 (to be fair, it was sick as FUCK in my dream, vague images or visuals of this novel series came in my head, i remember a huge golden bust against inky black space). it was like he was doing historical fiction but also the backdrop was space?! which is, again, admittedly sick. and yet i still don’t get a single bit WHY I WAS DREAMING ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE😭
I know this is me being neurotic again but I hate the phrase “powered by ai.” Like…what? No its powered by electricity. Designed by ai, enhanced with ai, whatever. But its not “powered” by it.
cw drugs
I have been given Xanax for the time being and ngl it is kinda nice to lose the ability to feel anything if you need it. But I get the addiction perspective of it.
The proles shall not be drugged into submission, though.
Photos of a celebration of Lula reelection in Brazil!
I wish I could be friends with these people
This makes me want to leave the United States.
Come to Brazil lol
Mbappe got metaphorically smacked very beautifully by China due to his disrespectful comments regarding Mao Zedong.
I love it tho Mbappe is not that terrible politically as other footballers so it kinda sucks it happened to him. But props to China for putting a stop to the infantile and malicious slander of their political figures, lie after lie turned the characterization of Mao as a dictador in the west while Mao is widely loved in his country.
Honestly, it is good that he was made an example. It feels nice when libs can’t get away with their anticommunist slanders.
I really don’t understand why some churches depict Satan in “demonic” fashion. Dude is supposed to look like an “angel of light”. He isn’t supposed to look obviously evil. Who’s gonna get tempted by that??
If I see some hooded old guy or horned beast offering riches in exchange for my soul, I’m not gonna take that offer based on his looks alone.
These churches don’t even read the lore smh
I think that depiction is showing what happens when you sell out.
Makes sense then. I guess images are supposed to be symbolic.
New Oppo dropped I am a witch now
Cute cat
…raccoon…
Ah you’re right
New Oppo dropped, before Gta 6.
a cute witch
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That’s a really cute profile picture.
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