Sublime

para que o indivíduo escolha ‘com toda liberdade’ o que ele deve obrigatoriamente escolher no seu próprio interesse”

The privatization and compartmentalization of one’s activities in this sphere are able to sustain the illusion one can “outwit the system” and devise a unique or superior relation to these tasks that is either more enterprising or seemingly less compromised.

These are techniques and procedures for producing abject states of compliance, and one of the levels on which this occurs is through the fabrication of a world that radically excludes the possibility of care, protection, or solace. This particular constellation of recent events provides a prismatic vantage point onto some of the plural consequences

Within 24/7 capitalism, a sociality outside of individual self-interest becomes inexorably depleted, and the interhuman basis of public space is made irrelevant to one’s fantasmatic digital insularity.

This isn’t an archaeology experiment, it’s a psychological warfare laboratory. They’re testing out their design for an emergent behaviorally controlled society. YFH-Polity is a prototype for the next generation of cognitive dictatorship. Because, when they surface to release their new and improved version of Curious Yellow upon an unsuspecting net,

If Taylor’s claim were true that black criminality is heavily genetic, we would see consistent black crime rates over time. But in fact black crime rates in America have fluctuated in relation to whites.

Any questioning or discrediting of what is currently the most efficient means of producing acquiescence and docility, of promoting self-interest as the raison d’être of all social activity, is rigorously marginalized.

En Occident, nous nous sommes éloignés de nos cultures traditionnelles, religieuses et même nationales, en partie pour atténuer les risques de conflits entre groupes. Mais nous sommes de plus en plus la cible du désespoir causé par l’absence de sens, et c’est loin d’être une avancée.

Rather, the effectiveness of 24/7 lies in the incompatibility it lays bare, in the discrepancy between a human life-world and the evocation of a switched-on universe for which no off-switch exists.