Trump attempting to get leverage to negotiate with Xi at Apec meeting. (Don’t forget seizure of Nexperia). He collects more stupid shitty stuff so he can bargain. This is the Art of the Deal.

One of the four stars on the Chinese flag represents the petit bourgeois. Changing people’s minds and dragging them away from reactionary movements was part of the Chinese Communist Revolution.

I think we have to recognize that classes like petit bourgeois and big bourgeois exist just like the proletariat in the US. They can have conflicting interests . Revolutionaries need to understand how to treat each class differently so they can unite to end imperialism and the state can evolve into socialism.

Private businesses can build the productive forces of society IF it is directed towards actually productive activity.

This is the content slop era that has overtaken the postmodern era of art. Rather than a postmodern artist borrowing from the past, questioning their own artistic identity, critiquing traditional art etc. , the content slop machine just cranks the handle for itself.

The artists are gone or decentered, and the audience is left to consume the slop and be unmoved or be just mildly occupied for a few moments by this imitation of life.

And the now disenfranchised artists/training-data-donors are left asking where can they get their cut. Like a blood donor, your bag just goes into the system - they don’t write your name on it.

All I am thinking is when this bubble will pop…