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I'm trying to detach myself from everything that is in one way or another influenced or driven by United States corporate, state/military and public interests.
Letting individuals inside your head, giving them a 'carte blanche' to wreck havoc within you, is one thing.
Having the consciousness of 300 million people, amalgamation of self-destructive, schizophrenic identities, political, ethnic or sexual affiliations, ethical and moral philosophies, it is too much.
So give me books and poetry!
All of it has to go, there is no chance of rest, unless I can purge all of it.
The damage that's already done may be irreversible, but only if the flow of information is cut to a halt. I've deleted all my social media, stopped using personalized chatting programs, cut down on other media consumption, but what do I do next?
Obviously 4chan must be also removed, but I'm simply not there yet.
I'm in an endless maze of mirrors and they reflect boundless amounts of insanity, carnage and animosity towards the world.
I cannot stop it, but I hope I'm able to push it back for a moment.
God knows it will wash over my shores eventually.

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We have to drive the beast into the ground. Drain it’s very blood, the cash flow that feeds it’s cells. It’s faltering now. This may be our last chance.

>> No.15844862

>>15844842
Seriously start w the greeks should be it's own sticky. Buy land, get surrogate babies and learn latin and only speak in latin

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You are brave OP
Now kys

>> No.15844897

>>15844887
Bootlicker

>> No.15844932

>>15844856
>>15844897
Imagine being 60 giving these cringe takes

>> No.15844938

>>15844842
Have you stopped looking at the news? And by news, I mean all newspapers, magazines, radio programs, YouTube programs, and so on. All of it has to go.
Also, read Ellul's Propaganda. It will give you an understanding of what's happening to you.

>> No.15844978

>>15844938
Yes, I don't even own a TV.
Removed all political or news related channels from my YouTube feed and have used less time in watching entertainment of that sort in general.
I just need to actually fill that time with something real.
First step is always the most difficult one.

>> No.15844993

>>15844842
A list of 5 books to kinda "snap out of it" from our world
1) Capitalist Realism by Fisher
2) Amusing Ourselves to Death by Postman
3) Burnout Society by Chul-Han
4) You Are Not a Gadget by Lanier
5) Either Understanding Media by McLuhan for hard mode or Technology Society by Ellul for Medium mode

Those are all simple, but add in Marx, Baudrillard, Heisman, and Derrida for good measure.

>> No.15844995

>>15844978
>from my YouTube feed
Get rid of it entirely.
>I just need to actually fill that time with something real.
What's your specialty? What are you most interested in?
Without knowing that, the only advice I can give you is "Just read." Pick literally anything that piques your interest and read it. Don't worry about depth of understanding, don't worry about "preparation," don't even worry about the fact that you dislike the general political project in which the author was engaged. Just read.

>> No.15845240

>>15844842
Read Infinite Jest

>> No.15845337

>>15845240
What would be a good dictionary to go with it?
Not a native English speaker, did those vocabulary tests online and I landed straight in the 105 "IQ" zone.
>>15844862
I like this as a thought, a lofty dream to chase.
>>15844938
>>15844993
Ellul added to the notebook, have meant to read Capitalist Realism, but as most of my goals, I never even begin to move forwards with them.
>>15844995
Order received and acted upon, YouTube's gone
Sometimes I wish I had stayed in the military.
I liked it, but as my best friend keeps reminding me, it would have been the easy way out.
I guess he is right.

>> No.15845955

>>15845337
>What would be a good dictionary to go with it?
He's memeing. Just ignore him. And any physical dictionary should be fine.
>Sometimes I wish I had stayed in the military.
I have no idea what the military is like where you are, but I doubt that that would've been the correct decision.
You will need to create order for yourself, but that also means creating order in your personal relationships. If your relations are not in order, or if you are spending time with people who you neither like nor respect, you will feel weak and undermined. That might be part of your problem.

>> No.15846052

>>15844856
Dude this can’t happen because NIGGERS. Remember how pathetic the Seattle CHOP was? The only way to get true anarchy is to segregate the races.

>> No.15846141 [DELETED] 

>>15844856
Dilate.

>> No.15846152

>>15846052
This has happened. Remember Black Wall Street?
And I think they’d congregate pretty much as is. At first leading to sustainability, after the defeat of state-capitalism genuine prosperity

>> No.15846838

>>15844842
>learn Irish
>move to the Gaeltacht

De-anglicised yourself, anon.

>> No.15848647

Bump.

>> No.15848763

>>15844897
Glass houses, butterfly.

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>>15848763
You even know what that means?