Comment by jrflowers
1 day ago
Me, seeing someone eating ice cream: “Here is one of several copies of The Permanent Revolution that I keep on my person for this exact situation”
1 day ago
Me, seeing someone eating ice cream: “Here is one of several copies of The Permanent Revolution that I keep on my person for this exact situation”
It's not ice cream though. Quite the opposite. It's this notion that puritanical self discipline at the individual level will somehow get us out of this. It won't.
Effective collective action is impossible without both real self discipline and meaningful engagement in life.
Your point has value to the extent that it’s reminding people we can’t just retreat into personal satisfactions.
But to the extent that it pooh poohs self-discipline or joyfully engaged attention, it’s totally wrong. The necessary practice starts with these things and then grows social and organized.
The social and organizing phase is usually less scoldy and pugilistic than some of your commentary here, too.
OP mentioned owning more than one computer in the post. They could spend all of their time watching vtubers stream gacha games when they’re not writing for all we know
That's a total non sequitur.
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If it’s something like chocolate brownie truffle ice cream, that’s clearly a bourgeois citizen who needs their consciousness raised.