/lit/ - Literature

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also, convince me that Commodore 64 aesthetics aren't completely fucking awesome, and not only because of Bandersnatch.

question: is there a -punk designation for this? neo-fucking-Stupidism? post-intelligence-ism? this is like the best analogy for my own fucking confusion i have ever come up with off the cuff: advanced software, primitive hardware, the C64 dreaming of being Alienware. like the Secret Life of Walter Mitty for computer programming. nobody knows, least of all the philosophers. the things they *are* good at telling you are the problems with building functional mind-control programs, which perhaps they would love to do, if they could get away with it. the best way to do this is through guilt, or coercion, things like this - unfortunately, there's *just something slightly wrong about doing that.*

this is why, when it comes to Space Taoism, my response tends to be, Fuck Yeah. because if ST is anything it is expressly devoted to catching up what we can do with our tiny little processors to what we *might* do with them, later on. or, to reverse the metaphor: imagine you were *given* an Alienware computer, but all you knew how to run on it was Commodore 64 text adventures. after all, that is what everyone else is doing. nobody knows that Doom is even a possibility. and then, one day, it is. and it is still being run on the computer you *thought* was a C64, but it turns out was Alienware.

we should be making each other more intelligent, is what i am saying, but nobody fucking knows how to do this in a philosophical sense, except by continuing to expand the realm of imaginative possibilities.