Michael Parenti - The Fall of the USSR
Why did the USSR Fail? by Viki 1999
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I lost a close friend earlier in the week, and this has been the worst christmas ever. I had to restrain myself from texting them. I walked past their apartment, and couldn’t help but hope I’d see them sitting on their balcony. For a while, I was hoping my friends were all playing an elaborate and cruel prank on me. Lots of crying. I’m a wreck.
And the best part is for the most part, it’s not like Cops where you’re just fucking punching down as hard as you possibly can towards society’s most vulnerable and airing it on live TV. The people that get on here by and large are the beautiful boaters. They are the reactionary petite bourgeoisie who have enough cash to sink tens of thousands into an epic bacon alarm/oven (that’s also made of wood). Deluded, doomed people who are begging Pokey Minch to find a place in his heart to pay for their inspirational t-shirt line. Some of the tenacious ones, after being told to fuck off, will read off rudimentary statistics about the market they’re trying to enter. These are the elite of the elite, by the way, most people who get on the show don’t even get that far. It’s reverse Alien vs Predator on public TV, whoever loses, we win.
this is a great point
you may have convinced me to watch this with this paragraph alone. plus that in-head bluetooth one, because that was so goddamn funny that i have to see more shit like it
Being a literate ape is such a ridiculous experience. The world holds so much complexity, yet my meat body can only meaningfully interface with a tiny sliver of it at once.
fr, how tf does it work? we evolved to hunt big game, eat berries, and have social groups of 150 people max. how tf do we have the capacity of doing all the rest, like being in societies of millions of people, being able to read, study a subject for years, etc?
Yesterday I logged onto facebook for basically the first time in years to talk to one specific person I’d been missing. I ended up getting into scrolling down my front page to see whatsup. And what I saw was a bunch of people my age who have their lives together, a spouse, and kids. And I realized like, well of course, im about to be 32 lmao, that would make sense. But knowing that I’m that old and totally “off track” with no job, a small subsidized apartment I get through disability services, and no family and no prospects of having a family (and yes, I want a family) is incredibly depressing and anxiety inducing. Very sad times.
You have to let go of the notion that there is a particular track in life in the first place. It’s okay to not be happy with where you’re at in life, but don’t let it be because it doesn’t measure up to others or some imaginary standard
Got Disco Elysium for Christmas, shoutout to whoever writes the “bad” conversation options. Like, the creativity required to be the level of awful/stupid/insane you can potentially be in this game is incredible. I don’t have the heart for it at all.
