the american translation is pretty great

but it's a meme

but I like what he says about the Pompidou

because it's become the most pretigious museum to have your art displayed

and he makes the argument that the french government has institutionalised a form of art by creating the museum

thereby destroying the nature of art

and replacing it with a product

and he points out the irony of these circles thinking that they are above it all

we creating living history in a sense

and shackle progress

wait hold up 9/11 was after simulacra and simulation

it was written in 2001 i believe

1981 lol

ah

perhaps it was a newer addition

In his article "The Baudrillardian Symbolic, 9/11, and the War of Good and Evil," Bradley Butterfield examines Jean Baudrillard's notion that terrorism functions according to the rule of symbolic exchange, a notion most fully articulated in Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism, written after the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Butterfield analyzes the concept of symbolic exchange as it emerged in Baudrillard's early works, particularly in For A Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign and Symbolic Exchange and Death. Butterfield traces Baudrillard's concept of symbolic exchange to Mauss's studies of the Kula and Potlatch with their agonistic exchange of gifts.

*The Spirit of Terrorism*

this essay was put in the edition i read

oh ok

Simulation, Baudrillard claims, is the current stage of the simulacrum: all is composed of references with no referents, a hyperreality.[19] Progressing historically from the Renaissance, in which the dominant simulacrum was in the form of the counterfeit—mostly people or objects appearing to stand for a real referent (for instance, royalty, nobility, holiness, etc.) that does not exist, in other words, in the spirit of pretense, in dissimulating others that a person or a thing does not really "have it"—to the Industrial Revolution, in which the dominant simulacrum is the product, the series, which can be propagated on an endless production line; and finally to current times, in which the dominant simulacrum is the model, which by its nature already stands for endless reproducibility, and is itself already reproduced.

this is from wiki

i forgot he claims this started before the industiral revolution

lol i've tried wikipedia

i really have to re-read it

i lost my copy too

it had all sorts of footnotes and highlights

😦

im going to buy a physical copy

yeah ok

I've been having the urge to read from a page

gotcha

i might actually read this instead

https://www.amazon.co.uk/System-Objects-Radical-Thinkers/dp/1844670538/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1536803680&sr=8-3&keywords=simulation+and+simulacra

this Radical Thinkers series is quite excellent

their translation of Adorno's Minima Moralia is filled with invaluable footnotes

https://m.france24.com/en/20180912-dalai-lama-says-europe-belongs-europeans

Lama redpilling the masses

I fully intend on not having kids or going to college.

Those 2 things just aren't for someone like me.

I mean thats a very hasty decision before you've entered college or hit 25

you have to start going to college before you’re allowed to decide if you want to go to college

🤔

Big think

Just reallized need to change my PFP to something related to the name. A randomely generated name and symbols looks cool but eh, its meh at best

also so in Poland it spopular for the man to drive even if the woman knows how to but my god femiism is rife in our advertisements its fucking everywhere

we have more female students than male

which is due to a recruitment bias

for fucks sake

poland is gonna become a feminist hell hole at this rate, without any overt feminism

@Bogatyr Bogumir I had a feeling that Poland was not nearly as "trad" and patriarchal as people say

I guess my suspicions were correct

Unfortunately so. You can probably thank the EU for that

@Snakeisninja atleast there are no Muslim terror attacks

@Leaf Supremacist tru

For now...

And since we are on the topic Vox made what essentially is a hit piece on Poland
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P8MQTgdjcLE

Misrepresented the march that took place last year.

Of the 60,000 that participated in the march only 600 were considered "far right"

Was just wondering, but I was wondering if you thought that there was inequality of opportunity in America?

There will always be inequality

In everything

There are always asymmetries in knowledge and also locational opportunity. As well as network opportunities and so on. This is impossible to prevent, and more significant than any inequality of opportunity that liberals or marxists ever managed to fix. In short, campodin is correct. There will always be inequality no matter what “solutions” are attempted, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a charlatan.

The purpose of economic activity is to create societal inequality (for people to advantage themselves) and in very productive societies it ends up being a lot of inequality. That is because production is contributed to in a hierarchical manner with many people being peripheral to the work being done.

Whenever people complain that wealth brings advantages, they are complaining that advantages are advantages. People work so work so that they are relatively advantaged. Work creates inequality.

Right. So you see the word inequality itself is linguistic trickery. Humans search for balance and symmetry, and the word itself is at odds with this feeling, so it creates an emotional response. What isn’t realized is what you say, and hence why so many young and gullible are leftists.

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So Kraut and Tea is back...and i can't say I'm to thrilled at the idea
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IPGzF3Jk8-Q

And you should have a general idea as to why I'm not to excited at the prospect if you have payed attention to the drama he garnered last year.

Looks like the vile coalescence of what once attempted to pass as intellect has dried up in this abhorrent cavern, occupied by what could only have been described as the dregs of society. The only things to mourn it's passing or hold a miserable vigil being the bloated rotflies, feasting on whatever droplets of validation they can draw with their weakminded attempts at ill-conjured discourse.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/488483815409319946/490585892537237532/73a.png

That's one big brained nibba

Save Europe (Children Of The Sun -Thomas Bergersen)
https://youtu.be/Pdxxm7X9r4A

Lol, anyone remember the “people of light” meme

Yep, was a good one

https://youtu.be/6aRKswpqybA

https://www.facebook.com/AuburnWAPolice/videos/1919258278383970/

>3 nogs enter

>3 nogs attack clerk

>clerk gets shoved and hits into container

>clerk almost dead

>nogs decide to pillage store

>nogs leave

>costumer finds clerk when entering store

>costumer calls cops

>clerk almost died, but survives in critical condition

@snakedog why does it look like he fell over himself?

He did, he had a heart attack, then the nogs robbed and left him there, did not even call the police

I see

I read the facebook post

Yep

black people are like that

@snakedog https://q13fox.com/2018/09/10/police-looking-for-teens-who-stole-from-auburn-store-after-clerks-medical-emergency/

There's an update to this article, the update says they found them

Disgusting people

Yep

oh he had a heart attack

i thought when they got shovey they caused him to whack right into that water bottle stand

and knock himself out causing a severe conuccsion