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It's so easy to be cynical and say that procreation is therefore just vanity

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inside all men there is something that's just waiting for someone to tell him "go". the economical environment you find yourself within is exploiting this fact of human nature and using it to keep you in suspended animation.

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it's not that cruelty is the point of the system, we are not saying the purpose of it all is to create suffering. But cruelty just so happens to be *indistinguishable* from the point.

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I had some really important phonecalls to make today and now I spent too long procrastinating by writing blogs that it's too late in the day to get it sorted

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I had exactly zero hopes that the chainsaw man anime would be any good, but I took a look at the trailer today and it does actually look like it might be all right. I think the key is that csm is mainly a personal drama and action is an afterthought/formality, so you don't have to spend a huge budget on big explosions and lazers and all that, and you can make high res detailed drawings of food and cute girls instead

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Nice try Randy. I may be a man child but I'm not going to spend a second doing something that's good for myself

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>I think there’s a ridiculous amount of pointless busywork involved with literally everything, where you spend years doing nothing, doing *absolutely nothing*, before you just get out and learn whatever trade shit you’re supposedly studying, by doing it, in apprenticeships.

this exact thing is what drives me fucking insane. i cant fucking stand busywork, i cant stand emailing people and phoning people and having meetings and going to classes, all absolute nonsense, beyond frustrating to me. You spend all your time doing nothing and you become nothing.

For me, the solution ended up being getting good at the thing i wanted to do before i even went to school, so the school was just to get the certificate to say i can do what im already doing anyway. Same with job - I'm punching hours as a formality so I can come home and do the things that are actually dignified/worthwhile. Thats the only way I can rationalize it without going completely insane

That solution only can work for a little while though. The next way to do it is to have a family so i can give my money to a baby

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i have already given all of my money to a baby, and to the baby's mother, and now, i must get more money to give to the baby

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What has transpired over the past 150 years is nothing short of the clinical domestication of the human species. It has become a self sustaining and self-fulfilling mechanism. The banking class created the plebian / ouroboros class where we are constantly eating our own tail and having to ask permission to open our own mouth.

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