/lit/ - Literature

>>11261552
Bullying people on the internet is actually cyberpunk af

>>11229011
politics is no longer about 'the facts of history', or even policy, it's all about marketing identities and psychopolitical coping strategies. Think Peterson's Patreon, but also the woke content farms and the twitter dopamine carousel. notice the sadomasochism inherent in this sort of discourse? people like to punish themselves, they persecute what they can't stand to look at in themselves. meanwhile, the techno-capitalist machine keeps churning on, new surveillance mechanisms, collateral damage: a couple thousand people thrown in the meat grinder here and there. Peterson types, on the other hand, defend the last barricades of the middle class, pull yourself up by your bootstraps mindset, but i think we ought to go further, ask yourself, what are we anyway?

>>11148070
was McLuhan talking about /pol/?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VelS-YCtHV4

also it's obvious muh 'intellectual dark web' is not even an ideology but a desperate last shot attempt at saving the middle class capitalist subject with its delusions of autonomy from total cybernetic annihilation. that and zionism. feminists are wrong in assuming people are essentially anything, we are mimetic relay nodes. ' what happens when people are only included in the system on the basis of their supposed exclusion from it? what is the real content of the system? does it even have any? or is it defined only by its exteriority, then the soviet enemy, now muslamic terrorism or ''the alt right''. if you are stuck to a screen all day long, who are you then? the problem with identity politics is that the post war middle class suburban white male remains the invisible standard everyone is measured against.