how did this guy get into my bedroom, why are the colors backward, and who replaced my desktop with a fax machine?

and who cleaned?

is there public awareness that isn’t advertising?

well, they just picked up one follower.

right? just gotta die first…

the dream

the actor is Werner herzog, better known as a director and generally insane art man.

look, hoa board have names and addresses.probably near you.

the systems are made of us.

okay but then they wouldn’t have as much data to sell and re-sell and corellate, and couldn’t ask as high a price.

do you just hate business?

I Just told you. do you not remember? are you okay?

I dunno, 80 for a Hitachi seems a little low, but not too good.

Not sure I’d buy one used tho.

Maybe they deserve some sort of wall?

You know, as a memorial?

Its not SMS but PM’s could totally read pretty similar.

And in most of the world they font use SMS; WhatsApp is the standard when someone says ‘text me’.

Shit. I guess bevause my mom never loved me. Same reason ive got a thing for older women, I bet. Theres this whole social thing where everyone says ‘your mother loves you’ and it was just… Harrowing as a kid? At least kids with dead moms got to just say that and people believed them? There was room for something else there, but I didn’t have the luxury of being allowed to heal, every moment around that awful fucking woman was a twist of the knife, a reminder that I wasnt worthy of love, wasnt supposed to be loved. And that kind of fucked me up as I developed. There are empty places, and theres nothing I can do about them; there’s nothing I can do to heal those wounds, because they can’t be healed. They’re just kind of always a part of me now, you know? And I’m angry about it

But I don’t see what that has to do with this.

How about you? Why’re you mad?

Why do I think I might be mad?

A quixotic commitment to logic and reason, proven impossible to complete a century ago, even after Edward Bernays and ivy lee thrust a dagger unto the heart of truth? All realities that interacting with you really drives home. Its mildly frustrating, but it does also make me question, in little ways, if all of this is mad, and even if we can do better, we shouldn’t, and I should just be trying to maximize harm at all times.

I also think you’re a total asshole completely scared to have basic compassion or humanity, but, like, That’s more disappointing than frustrating, and not wholly unexpected.

You’re not even responding to shit I said; youre just like three comments into trying to find an excuse why I’m someone you shouldn’t listen to, because compassion is too scary for you, but you would feel like such a huge ass arguing against the things I’ve said, and you know it.

Why do they always say exactly that? As if I’m the one with the fucked coping mechanisms here, instead of responding to anything ive said, like its some sort of gotcha?

So institutions are magic and unaccountable inhuman systems are a good thing?

I remember a story about a guy, world war one vet, that war fucked him up, became a rabid Nazi literally in it for the dehumanization and (the ‘I jack off to being turned into paste by a beautiful perfect machine’ itallian futurist) type philosophy, Until he saw what the Bolshevik reactionaries did with Russia.

He was immediately and unironicly like ‘hey, wow, this is so much worse. I’m defecting to these guys now.’ and then did it.

You remind me of that. This is praise of your novelty, condemnation of your everything else. Big ‘thanks, I hate it!’ Vibes

Well it seems you know so much about these organizations than me, despite my decade of experience, and so much more about the phenomenon, despite my years of study. I defer to your expertise.

we all are

This conversation is not generalizable to the population at large!

bandwidth

What youre talking about is attenuation. Also, how is an authority immune to this? Nobody who makes decisions is within five degrees of normal. There are ways around this. I can recommend a dense podcast or a dense doorstopper book+a normalish book as a primer.

an ‘organization’ is a magic spell that completely negates this immutable human nature ive been talking about. And yes requires a fuhrer.

K

yes that always involves guns

Nah, your way doesn’t threaten anyone in power.

Jack yourself off with the monkey paw!

That’s not just a derogatory response, that’s the liberal response and answer to your question-say youre doing the thing, do something that’s superficially similar, but actually think of the worst most awful thing you could do, and do that. Best case? Warm fuzzy carceral solution. Worst case? They’re all youth pastors now, and nobody reports sexual abuse from them ever again! Problem solved!