yeah, I’ve realised being on my phone a lot is probably a big part of a lot of problems in my life, but because old folks criticized it in such a silly way, it’s hard to genuinely talk about it.
But yeah students are asking shit like “why make art” and this is actually scary as hell.
100%. I don’t think that was an intended consequence but it definitely is happening. People already chose not to think, no they can externalize it to a source that will by default agree with the status quo.
currently in education, genuinely feel like putting students heads through their desks because they think my specialized knowledge can be replicated by a line of code. No I know what you don’t know and that you cheated because this wasn’t in the readings and when you talk it’s clear you didn’t even do those. People are genuinely losing what little critical thinking they had and this is a nightmare.
ok comrades, this is our moment. people’s lives are about to become massively inconvenient and/or they’re about to be in peril, and this is the time where it’s down to us or the out and out fascists. Lay the groundwork now, start saying shit like “our economy should be organized around getting working people the results of their labor.” currently-comfortable people are going to start thinking about how the world works and it’s our job to make sure they want to kill their bosses, not their less privileged neighbors.
in short? alienation from labor+concerns about the afterlife. Basically, people who didn’t have to worry about the harvest coming through next season started to worry about long term things, so the purpose of religion switched more and more to afterlife focus over time. You can see this generally, with Greek mystery cults such as the Eleusinian mysteries, cult of Orpheus and Dionysius, the great gods at Samothrace, and the Korybantes cult down in Crete, as well as the cult of Isis and Serapis coming out of Egypt, the cult of Mithras from Persia, and various levantine revivals around the time of Jesus. No big cults came from further north in Europe, due to the fact that those places were full of simple farmers for the most part until Roman conquest. Worship of animals tends to die out really fast, it’s very easily made to look silly, it can only stay sustained in hunter gatherer groups, sometimes nomads. Solar worship is also more open to fluctuation than you might think, the Greek sun god was mostly worshiped for prophecy, poetry, medicine, laws, and poems, and the Romans didn’t have a major cult for the sun until they imported it from Greece(potentially a minor one but it’s obscure), and the other Italic people’s didn’t have one(the Etruscans do, but he’s connected with the whole of the sky). The sun does it’s job day in day out a lot better than other parts of the world, so why bother propitiating it? Several solar cults kind of catch on in the late empire, but more among the wealthy than the common people. Wind gods get very rarely worshiped, there job is usually subsumed into a weather god’s work, potentially sea god or others. Water gods tend to be a bit of a hold out, as are gods directly tied to land and farming, but push comes to shove they eventually get folded as eschatological concerns overwhelm them. As for why Christianity, unlike the others somehow throws all prior religions out even for those who still work the soil, that’s because Christ is King. But in a more objective tack, it’s the only one of this cults that wasn’t henotheistic, allowing for other gods but centered on one, but strictly monotheistic. And if the old gods get thrown out but the functions they governed keep moving, then either Jesus is the true god or it doesn’t really matter.
We may not have gotten a snowpiercer, but an ice piercer isn’t too far off.
Widening the hole in my pasta spoon as we speak
I had to eat in that shitty country for a bit this summer, I will show them the kindness they showed me.
It honestly feels like ableism how often often terms for phobias intentionally trigger them, or speech impediments include the letters/particles which cause the problem.
this map is complete nonsense because some of these groups only exist as a result of interactions with europeans, and even some of the other ones are from completely different places before europeans came in.
not entirely, as leather is still a wildly useful fabric and material for many uses which synthetic leather can serve(to a greater or lesser extent, granted), but only in specific cases can meat not be replaced/not replaced effectively
so much better than america, where it just wouldn’t be made in the first place
I don’t see that as sad. Also, even if we lived four hundred years we’d still need to write things down because we’d eventually die.
Conservatives are liberals based upon the meaning of words. Do you know what liberalism is? It’s not gay rights and lattes.
such an odd thing to do.
I don’t know why you would go on the “people talking about events” platform and being surprised people are talking about events that aren’t happy. That’s just poor planning. I mean yeah, be there for your friends, but you should be able to have light or pleasant conversation pretty often, and steer away from troubling topics when you aren’t up for it, far easier than online.
The bare minimum you can do is listen when someone is in pain and stand witness when they are under attack. I want to see when people are suffering, so I can figure out how to help, or at very least show solidarity. Obviously I can’t take this in at all hours of every day, but that’s time I spend alone or with an IRL friend, not on an online messaging board.
so you admit that you get mostly leftist death threats because you avoid groups that would send more?
I’m less than human to you enough to be given a silly nickname
did you think this one through at all? like, give it even a seconds thought?
honestly cool as hell. Sorry I love secret frozen outposts, please US government let me have this. I can do a whole metroid prime in there.