No

I need contemporary empirics

absolutely, but muslims can still blame a larger power

Up to nagarjuna

If it cannot occur non-globally, I would say that is a serious point to discuss

9/11 was great for the US because then the US gets to claim its a victim, which is rich for the most powerful country ever

I am aware of the existence of the petrodollar

Please save me

And answer my question

we have hegemony of the commodity form, everyone is forced to participate in what is functionally one economy

Rip

so this is like a gift which is given to us, a gift we don't want but we are powerless because we cannot refuse it (seemingly)

All baudrillard really says then is that it's about turning power against itself, and also that systems get more fragile as they get more perfect

so "the system" is definitely vulnerable. it's just we play into its hands perhaps by emphasizing all these different good guy/ bad guy schemes

Is this some sort of deterministic oriented philosophy?

I get the feeling that the distinctions regardless, main point being we're all in one coin.

Isn't all materialist philosophy inherently determisnistic

regardless of ideology to pick

Tru

How do I word this uhhhhh

it's more fatalist than deterministic but its like the same

^ yeh what I was trying to say

It reeks a bit of nihilism

and he likes talking about destiny

Hmmm

As a staunch materialist, I would argue that marxist theory provides a more fatalist approach to our world that is supported by history

Partly fatalist.

Considering, this is purely hypothetical

but to my nihilism is just a way of saying the world is beyond categories, can't we agree on that?

Unless you mean it in a different light

No

or what do yall mean by nihilism

"Fatalism is a philosophical doctrine that stresses the subjugation of all events or actions to destiny" So you mean this one?

The world is a complex organization of energy interacting through space-time

Nothing else

"nihilism"

Well i used that term

In regards to nagarjuna

Because from what I understand

Since all we do is rather pointless regardless of what light we paint ourselves into

comes back into the same ole existential problems of