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Subject: Re: notes on: patriarchy, NVC, Lower Pliocene, egoic consciousness, love.... Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:22 pm
Why do "Americans" use their free time self-indulgently in computer games, watching movies, taking a trip, getting a hair do, and so on?
Mayby because society is a cybernetic cell, so that when one organelle isn't working, it should be dormant, turn-off and stay out of the way of the working parts?
This efficiency of off-work dormancy creates the pass-times and sit-calms which are the main activities of "Americans" when they are not working.
Situationist Internationale remarks that in fact leisure is not really free-time but a commodity sold back to a consumer.
Veblen in TLC suggests that contemporary social structure is a continuation of tribal period structure and that the lords are primarily symbols, they engage in inert activities.
lavender orchid
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Subject: Re: notes on: patriarchy, NVC, Lower Pliocene, egoic consciousness, love.... Mon Jul 08, 2013 4:43 am
Why do "Americans" use their free time self-indulgently in computer games, watching movies, taking a trip, getting a hair do, and so on?
Mayby because society is a cybernetic cell, so that when one organelle isn't working, it should be dormant, turn-off and stay out of the way of the working parts?
This efficiency of off-work dormancy creates the pass-times and sit-calms which are the main activities of "Americans" when they are not working.
Situationist Internationale remarks that in fact leisure is not really free-time but a commodity sold back to a consumer.
Veblen in TLC suggests that contemporary social structure is a continuation of tribal period structure and that the lords are primarily symbols, they engage in inert activities.
I am an American, but that does not mean I do what the majority does.
*rainbowstar*
Posts : 55 Join date : 2013-04-13 Location : exile
Whether a burka or a bikini, it is the very same game --
And then there are men: the shiest and most sexually repressed creature of all with their current fashion of knee-length shorts where just twenty-years ago men wore short shorts, or the hipster males' dread of the speedo swimsuit.
lavender orchid
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Subject: Re: notes on: patriarchy, NVC, Lower Pliocene, egoic consciousness, love.... Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:08 am
^ one should have eyes roll?
yola sup dood ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*rainbowstar*
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1984 was actually a story of the struggle for sexual freedom (Winston and Julia): every cultural revolution is first of all a free-love movement, and every dictatorship is first of all a regime of sexual repression.
"If desire is repressed, it is because every position of desire, no matter how small, is capable of calling into question the established order of a society: not that desire is asocial, on the contrary. But it is explosive; there is no desiring-machine capable of being assembled without demolishing entire social sectors. Despite what some revolutionaries think about this, desire is revolutionary in its essence ... and no society can tolerate a position of real desire without its structures of exploitation, servitude, and hierarchy being compromised."
Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari
lavender orchid
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Subject: Re: notes on: patriarchy, NVC, Lower Pliocene, egoic consciousness, love.... Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:49 am
^
ha!
maybe the entire euro-centric thought machine needs a thorough overhaul?
see the subversive undercurrents merging with a decadent mainstream?
Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:22 pm
