FunkyStuff [he/him]

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1d ago

wild the things you find on discord
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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago
If you're nationalist enough, you become internationalist. That's because you believe your great nation covers the whole world.
Not sure if Franco was nationalist enough for that though.

1d ago

Undercover Cops of Hexbear, What's Your Biggest Tell?

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FunkyStuff [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

Body positivity is doing a lot of good work for cops who have this issue, keep it up!

The internet has irreparably changed "reality" to the point that it became a total choose-your-own-adventure game where the only constants are misery and still having to pay your pound of flesh at the capital factory if you wanna keep playing the game. There's not really gonna be a way to escape this condition any time soon, but the upside is that the negativity is just as arbitrarily imposed by the system as the positivity.

If you feel this way, consider whether you've fallen for the trap of confusing realism and pessimism; you do have a duty to live in the real world but not to make it as dark and gloomy as possible.

An additional thought: social media has an undeniable tendency toward toxic positivity which naturally causes this kind of reaction, too. The fakeness of the online world's positivity makes us feel like the real world's negativity is itself the thing that makes the real world real (because the online world is identified by its fakeness). But this is not strictly true. It's possible the online world is all good and fake yet the real world is not all bad just because it's the opposite.

::: spoiler Also a paragraph from the wiki article on Byung Chul Han

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byung-Chul_Han

In The Burnout Society (original German title: Müdigkeitsgesellschaft), Han characterizes today's society as a pathological landscape of conditions such as depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, borderline personality and burnout. He claims that they are not "infections" but "infarcts", which are not caused by the negativity of people's immunology, but by an excess of positivity.[14] According to Han, driven by the demand to persevere and not to fail, as well as by ambitions of efficiency, we become committers and sacrificers at the same time and enter a swirl of demarcation, self-exploitation and collapse. In Psychopolitics, Han explains that "When production is immaterial, everyone already owns the means of production, him- or herself. The neoliberal system is no longer a class system in the proper sense. It does not consist of classes that display mutual antagonism. This is what accounts for the system's stability."[15]

The demarcation bit is what I'm talking about here, we define ourselves in relation to the expectations we get from online culture but we have to correct for the online world's biases (as you're doing). In that process we run the risk of overcorrecting.