Anews Podcast 112 – 4.26.19

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Editorial: Clay Feet by chisel
TOTW: Debates, Aragorn! and Squee

sound editing was by Dim
what’s new was written by Jackie and narrated by Chisel and Dim
Music!
1) Lil Bow-Wow – Basketball
2) The Smiths – Stretch Out and Wait

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interesting how the avengers craze was used as backdrop for the editorial

lol, sometimes Chisel and Dim’s mere tone and inflection
while reading the summaries of news and articles is better commentary on them than wall of text posts under them.

UBI sucks, Slavoj Peterson and Jordan Žižek suck, David Graeber sucks, John Zerzan sucks.
ya’ll are aight tho.

debates are only interesting when they serve as an unwilling roast, a display of public humiliation, so you can revel in schadenfreude. forget logic; it’s wit, snark, comedic timing, intimidation, ego, and sadism that should take center stage if one is to expect a good show.

expecting to learn ideas or logic from a debate is like expecting to learn martial arts from watching gladiators fight, or from watching wrestling.

thinking again on the solipsism article, the concept of “academic mileage” came to mind, similar to “political mileage”. an academic self-promiting is not that different from a politician on a campaign for election.
it’s...something...how much academic mileage some people can get out of topics, places, their personal lives, on articles or social media etc.

since this dynamic is already played out so much, one can note how some get ahead while playing this game, and others try and fail. so you could have a pair that are every bit as sellouts except one was successful and the other not.

I'd like to write an essay on how this last Avengers movie is the most horrific work of cinematic propaganda since Birth of a Nation, but I don't think it's worth it at that point. While not being racist at all, it's a super-violent neoliberal promotion of ecocide, for an endlessly-developing techno-consumerist civilization. The ending makes it quite clear that it wasn't just about saving their friends/lovers, but to bring back SOCIETY.

film critique is secondary spectacle, trickle down economics of entertainment, diminishing returns, extending shelf life of film products

the solution is to tear out eyes from sockets and deafen one’s ears

essays on medium are gigs for freelance content creators in gig economy. hot takes are engagement fodder for followers-amplifiers-potential patrons

opinions are fashion statements, and all fashion statements are emotional labor paid in advance in solicitation of attention, a service-currency

bepis

doodoo shark doodoodoodoodoodoo

look at my nihlittitties

viewed from a distance, Deep Blue Sea was so much a better movie!

Peterson agreed to that debate because Zizek can't be taken seriously by default on camera. Most of Peterson's fan base dwell almost exclusively in reptile brain aesthetic where Zizek's speech impediment makes him "sound gay" or whatever their little dudebro bullshit interpretation would be.

Not sure I'm getting Dim's question on non-human animal's innocence as being a remnant of dominant culture. Or maybe it's in relation the binary principle of "guilt vs innocence"?

What the author(s) meant is how non-humans are undeniably not responsible for the shit we create (obviously); they are unrelated to human society and its politics, and in so, they are "innocent".

More importantly as in a majority of cases they are unable to defend themselves against the many aspects of civilizing aggression or oppression happening to their lives, save understanding it. Of course most of them flee it, and they're damn right when fleeing humans, but that ain't resisting or fighting back. There's no way for wild animals to resist cars, other than to put their own bodies on the roads as self-sacrificial protests, but is that why they're really doing it?

They're more than innocent, they're better anarchs than anyone involved here. Fight or flight is not something domesticated homo is even capable of. Dears in headlights...more like pro-tech assholes on screens...

Something something hurricanes tech rulezzzzz. Muh podcasts muh call in shows fuck Z

pss...you....yeah, you.....come here........we're not doing those jokes anymore.....don't tell em i told you.......

Yes, comrade! We have heard the legends and we too are ready to rescue all wild Dear from the headlights of these domesticated techno assholes! We too are only supplementing our ailments with our own bottled urine to gain full primal strength for the war to come as feral wild anarchs! Give the word, comrade and we will unleash our hurricane force pheromones upon all who do not recognize your wild genius and might! Witness us, comrade!
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Greetings, HGS ES:

A few of my esteemed colleagues and fellow forum members have remarked about their desire to elevate the level of discourse on this site. Keeping with this lofty ideal in mind, I write to you so that I may request that you do not recourse to crude humor, be it in the form of parody or satire. This has the much undesired effect of diverting and diluting the conversation, and tarnishes the reputation of this fine establishment. To end on a congratulatory note, I commend you for writing under a pseudonym, instead of remaining anonymous, a feature me and my esteemed colleagues are trying to eliminate. I for one will be using my real full legal name.

With kind regards,

Reginald Frankfurter McIntire

*deer

bambi sabbed my keyboard, apologies

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