acephalousuniverse posted:its cool that brands rant is explicitly social democratic and he goes out of his way to say so but the people who are gonna cling to it hardest are college libertarians and alex jones fans. welcome to earth
*erf
jeffery posted:
i can't watch shit on youtube rightnow without getting ads for the new shooting people game
conec posted:Man last Easter i visited home and my dad was on the couch watching some Russell Brand movie on TV called hop I watched some of it it was pretty entertaining I will not pretend that it did not entertain me I am not pretentious okay in some instances I am pretentious but are we not all in some cases per Kenchess i mean pretentious "freudian slip" For example okay nevermind I don't really want to go on some tangent about how I try to flex this or try to flex that And I could sit here and tell you yeah I can flex this way or flex that way but I do not really need to tell you that Let's just call the whole thing off Have you ever Gone through a whole load of trouble just to get something done and then 90% of the way through you decide to just you know as I said before call it off so to speak Fuck it pains me to think of this But here goes nothing a few years ago I threw myself into baking it consumed me it became me I became baking every single day I woke up at around five in the morning and bakED I would bake sometimes more than one thing but it was every day that I baked at least one thing it was great and restored my confidence in myself and restored my will to live The whole thing was sparked by Playing the Sims three I created a character whose goal in life was to successfully follow every recipe in the sims recipe book but in order to do so ** must obtain the death fish and the life fruit you need advanced gardening and angling I guess I got to thinking well if this sims character can do it and this sims character does not possess the reason that a human would then you know I am a human after all and I possess reason I should be able to do this shit too Why the fuck not you know Yeah I enjoyed the Russell Brand movie and I also enjoy the Big Bang theory. Let's be clear about the Russell Brand flick called hop he takes the form of a ok he doesn't take the form of but he does voice over for this whats the term im looking for the CGI will have to do CGI rabbit with hyper real eyes reflective glossy etc fuck it was good there was this easter island overlord oh that was the rabbits father wait im confused but he was overthrown he got throwed lol ok he didnt get high that would be funny though he just got hogtied and swept under the rug so to speak by this big fuck chicken lmaaaooooooo i loved that chicken a lot Anyway when I had that fervent baking episode one day early in the learning process you know I was sort of a new bat first i mean a noob at first I got the hang of things eventually yeah like i was saying in week one or something lets just suppose it was the first week of the baking adventure i went on that was a great time in my life by the way I made cookies added too much butter and the cookies spread out too much in oven they were more flat and thin than i intended them to be the were not done baking had some minutes Left on the clock but I was so upset angry hurt destroyed humiliated and embarrassed etc that i yanked them from the oven no oven mits screamed tossed them on counter top and threw myself to the tile floor screamed sobbed hyperventilated banged wrists got up grabbed cutting board and smashed it against my head till it didnt seem cool in concept any longer switched to clawing at my face and gripping it left some marks i have pretty sensitive skin not "pretty" as in wow she has lovely ivory skin more like considerably sensitive skin yes but i learned not all things will come out perfectly everyday is a school day
conec
one time i was cooking a Totinos (i think) frozen pizza in the oven (this was back when i still had a working full-size oven big enough to put prizzas in) and i had put the pizza on a cookie sheet which is just a flat piece of metal, instead of directly on the rack because i didnt want all the extra cheese and stuff i put on it to drip down and get my oven dirty, but i didnt have any pot holders or oven mitts to take it out with when it was done and very VERY hot so i decided to use a paper towel, but i remembered that it was VERY hot in there and didnt want the paper towel to get too hot or burn or burst into flames so i decided to get the paper towel wet first because as everyone knows water opposes fire on the elemental wheel of mana, which is something i knew a lot about due to playing video games and watching Avatar: The Last Airbender which is a very good show unlike the movie made about it which was very bad. Long story short i instantly scalded the fingerprints off every single one of my fingers on my right hand, so if you ever want to commit a crime but dont want to wear gloves just cook some pizza and forget that water conducts heat better than air like i did
roseweird posted:thirdplace posted:i can't watch shit on youtube rightnow without getting ads for the new shooting people game
undermine capitalism
daddyholes posted:will smith is actually a gigantic dick about pronunciation and grammar and pedantically corrects people who interview him if he feels they've made an error
i would b the same way if there was an internet meme of me saying "earf" bc white people literally filter reality through their dumb brains to make black ppl sound like the want tghem to
Superabound posted:because as everyone knows water opposes fire on the elemental wheel of mana
Finally, something that I can relate to! This is how you post. +1
ilmdge posted:i choose to believe the ordering goes in the other direction and that the welcome to earf catchphrase is karmic justice against a lifelong judgmental pedant
I Choose Race Logic
ilmdge posted:i choose to believe the ordering goes in the other direction and that the welcome to earf catchphrase is karmic justice against a lifelong judgmental pedant
i actually like this better too. v twilight zone
acephalousuniverse posted:daddyholes posted:will smith is actually a gigantic dick about pronunciation and grammar and pedantically corrects people who interview him if he feels they've made an error
i would b the same way if there was an internet meme of me saying "earf" bc white people literally filter reality through their dumb brains to make black ppl sound like the want tghem to
in the last story where i read it he was mocking poor black people interviewed on tv and noted with anger how they use a hard t in "often"
daddyholes posted:in the last story where i read it he was mocking poor black people interviewed on tv and noted with anger how they use a hard t in "often"
thats hilarious
Mark Fisher said …
The problem that the Vampires' Castle was set up to solve is this: how do you hold immense wealth and power while also appearing as a victim, marginal and oppositional?
The solution was already there - in the Christian Church. So the VC has recourse to all the infernal strategies, dark pathologies and psychological torture instruments Christianity invented. This priesthood of bad conscience, this nest of pious guilt-mongers, is exactly what Nietzsche predicted when he said that something worse than Christianity was already on the way.
Now, here it is ...
The VC feeds on the energy and anxieties and vulnerabilities of young students, but most of all it lives by converting the suffering of particular groups - the more 'marginal' the better - into academic capital.
The most lauded figures in the VC are those who have spotted a new market in suffering - those who can find a group more oppressed and subjugated than any previously exploited will find themselves promoted through the ranks very quickly.
The first law of the VC is: individualise and privatise anything. While _in theory_ it claims to be in favour of structural critique, _in practice_ it never focuses on anything except individual behaviour. Some of these working class types are not terribly well brought up, and can be very rude at times. Remember: condemning individuals is always more important than paying attention to impersonal structures.
The second law of the VC is: make thought appear very, very difficult. There must be no lightness, and certainly no humour. Humour isn't serious, by definition, right? Thought is hard work, for people with posh voices and furrowed brows. Where there is confidence, introduce scepticism. Say: don't be hasty, we have to think more deeply about this. Remember: having convictions is oppressive, and might lead to gulags.
The third law of the VC is: propagate as much guilt as you can. The more guilt the better. People must feel bad: it is a sign that they understand the gravity of things. It's OK to be privileged if you feel guilty about privilege and make others in a subordinate class position to you feel guilty too. You do some good works for the poor, too, right?
Fourth law of the Vampires' Castle: essentialize. While fluidtiy of identity, pluarity and multiplicity are always claimed on behalf of the VC coven - partly to cover up its own invariably wealthy, privileged or bourgeois-assimilationist background - the enemy is always to be essentialized. Since the desires animating the VC are in large part priests' desires to excommunicate and condemn, there has to be a strong distinction between Good and Evil, with the latter essentialized. Notice the tactics. X has made a remark/ has behaved in a particular way - these remarks/ this behaviour might be construed as transphobic/ sexist etc. So far, OK. But it's the next move which is the kicker. X then becomes defined AS a transphobe/ sexist etc. Their whole identity becomes defined by one ill-judged remark or behavioural slip. Once the VC has mustered its witch-hunt, the victim (often from a working class background, and not schooled in the passive aggressive etiquette of the bourgeoisie) can reliably be goaded into losing their temper, further securing their position as pariah/ latest to be consumed in feeding frenzy.
Part of the importance of the British Cultural Studies project - as revealed so powerfully and so movingly in John Akomfrah's The Unfinished Conversation and The Stuart Hall Project - was to have resisted all this. Instead of freezing people into chains of already-existing equivalences, the point was to treate any articulation as provisional and plastic. New articulations can always be created. No-one is essentially anything. Sadly, the right act on this insight more effectively than the left does. As Laura Oldfield Ford observed in a galvanising post the other day, the bourgeois-identitarian left knows how to propagate guilt and conduct a witch hunt, but it doesn't know how to make converts. But that, after all, is not the point. The point is not to popularise a leftist position, or to win people over to it, but to remain in a position of elite superiority, but now with class superiority redoubled by _moral_ superiority too. 'How dare you talk - it's we who speak for those who suffer! (In our posh voices, and with the confidence that we gained from going to private school or Oxbridge. Not that we'll ever talk about that!)'
that pretty much describes me haha/all of teh rhizzone.
mcdonalds wifi
Crow posted:
holy shit
Robert Webb rebukes Russell Brand for urging people not to vote
Peep Show actor says fellow comedian's essay led him to rejoin Labour party and accuses Brand of political 'timidity'
The comedian Robert Webb has accused Russell Brand of political "timidity" for not voting and calling on other people not to vote, and suggested that he should better educate himself by reading "some fucking Orwell".
Webb, best known as one half of the comedy double act Mitchell and Webb, castigated Brand for an essay he wrote as guest editor of the New Statesman, which he ended by stating: "I will never vote and I don't think you should either."
Writing a response piece in the current edition of the magazine, the Peep Show actor criticised Brand for effectively "telling a lot of people that engagement with our democracy is a bad idea".
Webb, who said Brand's article had provoked him to rejoin the Labour party, expressed particular concern about the message Brand was sending to his young fanbase. He added: "That just gives politicians the green light to neglect the concerns of young people because they've been relieved of the responsibility of courting their vote.
"Why do pensioners (many of whom are not poor old grannies huddled round a kerosene lamp for warmth but bloated ex-hippie baby boomers who did very well out of the Thatcher/Lawson years) get so much attention from politicians? Because they vote."
Webb personally accused Brand of political "timidity" for failing to vote, arguing that this was a key way to object to many of the policies that he objects to, such as George Osborne's challenge to the European Union's proposed cap on bankers' bonuses.
Implying that Brand's political rhetoric was more style than substance, Webb also took issue with his claim that "revolution is un-British", arguing that the English invented it in the modern era when Charles I was beheaded in 1649.
Webb writes: "We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then. Aha! Until now, you say! By those pesky, corporate, global, military-industrial conglomerate bastards! Well, yes. So national parliaments and supernational organisations such as the EU need more legitimacy. That's more votes, not fewer."
The comedian praised Brand for being "a wonderful talker" but archly noted that "on the page you sometimes let your style get ahead of what you actually think".
"In putting the words 'aesthetically' and 'disruption' in the same sentence, you come perilously close to saying that violence can be beautiful. Do keep an eye on that. Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do."
Webb concludes by questioning Brand's avowed belief in God and his desire to find a "luminous connection" beyond himself through revolution. "We tried that again and again, and we know that it ends in death camps, gulags, repression and murder. In brief, and I say this with the greatest respect, please read some fucking Orwell."
His upbraiding of Brand comes after Jeremy Paxman accused the comedian of being a "trivial man" in a fierce exchange on Newsnight last week.
lol
what
acephalousuniverse posted:In putting the words 'aesthetically' and 'disruption' in the same sentence, you come perilously close to saying that violence can be beautiful.
what
Merzbow posted:http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/oct/30/robert-webb-russell-brand-vote
Robert Webb rebukes Russell Brand for urging people not to vote
Peep Show actor says fellow comedian's essay led him to rejoin Labour party and accuses Brand of political 'timidity'
The comedian Robert Webb has accused Russell Brand of political "timidity" for not voting and calling on other people not to vote, and suggested that he should better educate himself by reading "some fucking Orwell".
Webb, best known as one half of the comedy double act Mitchell and Webb, castigated Brand for an essay he wrote as guest editor of the New Statesman, which he ended by stating: "I will never vote and I don't think you should either."
Writing a response piece in the current edition of the magazine, the Peep Show actor criticised Brand for effectively "telling a lot of people that engagement with our democracy is a bad idea".
Webb, who said Brand's article had provoked him to rejoin the Labour party, expressed particular concern about the message Brand was sending to his young fanbase. He added: "That just gives politicians the green light to neglect the concerns of young people because they've been relieved of the responsibility of courting their vote.
"Why do pensioners (many of whom are not poor old grannies huddled round a kerosene lamp for warmth but bloated ex-hippie baby boomers who did very well out of the Thatcher/Lawson years) get so much attention from politicians? Because they vote."
Webb personally accused Brand of political "timidity" for failing to vote, arguing that this was a key way to object to many of the policies that he objects to, such as George Osborne's challenge to the European Union's proposed cap on bankers' bonuses.
Implying that Brand's political rhetoric was more style than substance, Webb also took issue with his claim that "revolution is un-British", arguing that the English invented it in the modern era when Charles I was beheaded in 1649.
Webb writes: "We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then. Aha! Until now, you say! By those pesky, corporate, global, military-industrial conglomerate bastards! Well, yes. So national parliaments and supernational organisations such as the EU need more legitimacy. That's more votes, not fewer."
The comedian praised Brand for being "a wonderful talker" but archly noted that "on the page you sometimes let your style get ahead of what you actually think".
"In putting the words 'aesthetically' and 'disruption' in the same sentence, you come perilously close to saying that violence can be beautiful. Do keep an eye on that. Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do."
Webb concludes by questioning Brand's avowed belief in God and his desire to find a "luminous connection" beyond himself through revolution. "We tried that again and again, and we know that it ends in death camps, gulags, repression and murder. In brief, and I say this with the greatest respect, please read some fucking Orwell."
His upbraiding of Brand comes after Jeremy Paxman accused the comedian of being a "trivial man" in a fierce exchange on Newsnight last week.
lol
le_mitchell_and_webb_look_of_disapproval ಠ_ಠ
I guess I just answered my own question
