Vampire

You can modify your body with food & exercise. You can take the body you have and alter it a bit to a better version.

What you can't do is replace your body with a different person's body.

Therefore, you shouldn't have the goal to look like some image from media.

You should have the goal to look like you do now, but a bit better.

Some people need to hear this.

Not because there is ethical consumption under capitalism, but because ethical purity is the wrong goal.

Leftists keep getting distracted by moralising. The aim is to lift the working class.

'There is no ethical consumption under capitalism' is a catchcry used to argue against consumer action because it is morally impure. I don't care whether my actions are morally pure; I care about the results they produce.

Leftists are shit at focusing on the results of their action. The end-game of leftists is to feel morally superior: never mind that no good results have been achieved.

Using syllogistic logic:

• Surface premise: 'There is no ethical consumption under capitalism'

• Hidden premise: And we should only take actions that are ethically pure

• Conclusion: therefore we shouldn't reform consumption

What should I read to understand how to build and verify a cybernetically valid system? (e.g. cybernetically valid planned economy)

I understand that production needs to be controlled, and that the decision-making needs to be linked to the front-line workers (because they have eyeballs on the reality of the work). And it's a design-error if decisions are made removed from work, because the controller doesn't have first-hand knowledge.

But I don't understand how to describe that in formal terms. Is there a list of all possible system-design-errors? Is there a methodology/checklist for confirming if me mum is cybernetically valid?

Is there a textbook on all this?

Curious.