"When the moment finally comes, I can be the trigger, you can be the gun that blows out the back of my skull." - Donald Sutherland, by Ass Ponys
Maerman
Love this band.
This is some good history; thanks for sharing.
Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
It's a quick read, and it hits like a bullet.
I actually had a thought about this in a discussion last night. Capitalism is based on the assumption of infinite growth, which is physically impossible with finite resources. So it turns inward, in a process of internal reduction. People are reduced to numbers, life is reduced to statistics, and so on. But that is also unsustainable, because this reduction weakens the core. To quote Yeats, the center cannot hold. These social movements like punk and goth get hollowed out by the commodification you describe, until they collapse. But hey, I'm a bit drunk right now, so maybe I'm just rambling.
I absolutely agree. To me, anarchism is, and always has been, about empathy, mutual respect and the dignity of life. Capitalist media made it about aggression and destruction, because that is the lens through which capitalism views the world. Conquest and subjugation.
A formal diagnosis can help you get meds, which could help. But it won't change how mustard tastes. It's up to you.
Nope. The stats show that most child predators are either someone known to the child already, or other minors who don't know better. 'Stranger danger' is a moral panic that is not rooted in reality.
My mom showed me this movie when I was 10. It awakened something in me.
Linus Sebastian is such a normie shill hack. He consistently has the worst possible takes on everything tech-related.
Go Team Venture!

The irony here is that the Luddites used machines. Nobody was weaving by hand in those days. Their grievance was not with machines in and of themselves, but with the machines being used to create an inferior product and oppress workers. Do you see the connection?