Prometheus

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[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Who the fuck pulls a gun and then sets it down next to the person they're threatening

[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There was a ton of hippie theorizing at the time acid really hit big that it could revolutionize things if there was mass adoption because basically it makes you really silly and joyful, and unable to take anything seriously. I genuinely think that it was a threat of some sort, that the threat contributed to the need for a war on drugs.

[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok this is good to know, because I could see that there had to be some reason it was so popular with Israelis but I have no idea what.

[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Probably the greatest idea so far. Flyover while blasting Esa Mighty.

[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

That sucks so bad man, I'm sorry.

 

I just spent the last week at the Ozora Psytrance music festival in Hungary and it was a pretty amazing experience, especially as it was the first music festival I've ever been to.

What I was not prepared for however, was the gobsmacking amount of Israeli propaganda just absolutely everywhere, and it only got more and more blatant as the week went. I'm being made to understand that this is actually fairly normal and apparently "Israelis love colonizing festivals". Apparently they also really love psytrance festivals, and used every opportunity to invoke the memory of the NOVA psytrance festival that was caught in the crossfire on Oct. 7th.

I posted a direct response about it in the festival subreddit here, but I feel like there is so much left unsaid.

The whole thing being rooted in psychedelics just adds several additional points. First, it is straight up baaaad vibes, in place where "vibes" are super important, the constant barrage of blatant propaganda just absolutely pollutes the headspace. I found myself being unable to ignore it at multiple levels of tripping. The propaganda spanned from the more mild but still blatant "in remembrance of" sorta stuff, up to straight war propaganda including what I can only describe as "Star of David Totenkopf" which is probably the most disgusting thing I've seen in awhile (I'll attach it as the main image).

It's a psychedelic hippie festival, everyone wants to be yoga, free love, and good vibes, no one wants to escalate or fight the Israelis, so they go entirely unconfronted on their disregard for everyone around them.

I'm also trying to process how psychedelics revolutionary potential appears to be completely captured, how they were meant to be a tool to free the mind from fascism, but then here it appears to be made near totally inert, incorporated into this new sort of "Candy Fascism". I get how a type of nihilistic hedonism is part of fascism, but how this has actually developed boggles me.

[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Why aren't you doing what you need to do? Do you really need to do all of it? What's the one thing you need to do, will it be that difficult to start to do it?

[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

This is the most probable answer. Just using an established technology to make claims and suck up investment money.

[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

This but adding don't buy a super large one (like 13in) as no accessories are made for that size

[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

I've been reading The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, and David Wengrow. While I haven't finished it yet, it's an excellent analysis of how Human societies actually formed based on anthropological and archeological evidence.

Basically everything that Sapiens should have been, and they call out the lib version of Human history regularly.

Really upset that further books will likely never develop due to the death of Graeber.

[–] Prometheus@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

The explanation I've always heard was that it was his response to otakus jerking off to anime characters. I.e. women who can't hurt you with rejection. This is who he sees them as.

From an article in which he is interviewed:

Anno understands the Japanese national attraction to characters like Rei as the product of a stunted imaginative landscape born of Japan’s defeat in the Second World War. “Japan lost the war to the Americans,” he explains, seeming interested in his own words for the first time during our interview. “Since that time, the education we received is not one that creates adults. Even for us, people in their 40s, and for the generation older than me, in their 50s and 60s, there’s no reasonable model of what an adult should be like.” The theory that Japan’s defeat stripped the country of its independence and led to the creation of a nation of permanent children, weaklings forced to live under the protection of the American Big Daddy, is widely shared by artists and intellectuals in Japan. It is also a staple of popular cartoons, many of which feature a well-meaning government that turns out to be a facade concealing sinister and more powerful forces.

Anno pauses for a moment, and gives a dark-browed stare out the window. “I don’t see any adults here in Japan,” he says, with a shrug. “The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that’s what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children.”