Edit: some of you need to step outside and smell some fresh air, I promise it wont bite

Edit to the edit: this goes doubly for the people private messaging me their manifesto

  • snek_boi@lemmy.ml
    64·
    27 days ago

    I know it sounds absurd. You’re thinking I’m insane. You’re thinking there’s no way a sane human being believes lasagne bolognese is politics. You’re thinking my definition of politics is useless or absurd.

    But let’s look at this closely. Again, politics is the distribution of political goods and our assessments of those distributions.

    • Are we not paying attention to lasagna bolognese right now instead of something else?
    • Are there not implications to a lasagna bolognese? Was that lasagna bolognese produced in a vacuum?
    • Was there not a distribution of labor involved in producing it?
    • Were there not political structures within which your lasagna bolognese was created?
    • If the killing of cows was involved, was there not a political decision to kill a cow?

    Being aware that politics is everywhere means we can choose what to pay attention to and what to do. It’s fine to choose lasagna bolognese. It’s fine to choose what kind of life you want. We’re involved in politics even if we don’t know it. We’re already somewhat skilled at it.

    • Mastersmacks@reddthat.comOP
      104·
      27 days ago

      I think you’re just arguing semantics now, I’m here to see memes, not conflict. You’re digging too deep into it for the sake of philosophy. While I can appreciate the angle I think I’m just going to continue receiving the memes, thanks

      • snek_boi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        26 days ago

        You seem to really value fun, and that is genuinely okay.

        It probably seems as if I’m splitting hairs. It might also seems as if I’m interested in conflict (in the memes-conflict dicotomy you mentioned). Overall, it might seem as if I’m an armchair philosopher yelling at the clouds from my ivory tower.

        The way I see it, I’m not making a point in that ivory tower. I’m not in the vacuum of philosophy for philosophy’s sake. I actually think I’m doing the total opposite: what happens when we notice what we pay attention to, how the world affects us, and how we affect the world? In other words, what happens when we open our arms to the world instead of closing our eyes to it?

        This is incredibly practical.

        Every single choice that we make has consequences. It affects people nearby and around the world.

        I’m not arguing for us to pretend to be perfect people, whatever that means. I’m arguing for noticing our place in this world and how we are connected to others. I’m arguing for expanding our perspective instead of narrowing it.

        Even when we expand our perspective we can still choose memes and fun.

        I do it. I’m like you in that sense.

        The very small change is noticing that we are making choices and that choices are consequential.

      • culprit@lemmy.ml
        11·
        27 days ago

        Semiotics is the study of signs. It is an interdisciplinary field that examines what signs are, how they form sign systems, and how individuals use them to communicate meaning. Its main branches are syntactics, which addresses formal relations between signs; semantics, which addresses the relation between signs and their meanings; and pragmatics, which addresses the relation between signs and their users.

        I wonder if memes are collections of signs with meanings in relation to each other and their users. I’m sure that’s NOT the case tho.