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I'm going to grow a garden, Randy. With potatoes and chickens.

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The system is regulating us, but the system is flawed and can be exploited.

Buy land, start an llc, get small business loans to build a fence, purchase equipment, and livestock. Make zero money and file for bankruptcy.

The current system favors those that exploit it and embrace it.

The riots of 2020 were allowable because they did nothing to threaten the system. Government welfare offices didn't get burnt down. Joe Everyman lost everything because he believed the system would protect the people that support it. Nah, sorry dude. Hope your insurance covers it, but so what if you're traumatized and devastated?

Start an llc, buy a small farm or land you can raise goats on. Go bankrupt. Make just enough to live well and still qualify for food stamps.

Mormons are preppers by God's commandments. Get on food stamps and create a 1 year supply of food.

The system favors parasites.

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Lets make it out the hood

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I kept chickens for a while, went to war with the rats that inevitably showed up to eat the feed from the mess the birds made. It was as many as 10-15 dead in the traps I set up all around the house. Eventually moved the chickens to my brother-in-law's because he wanted to build a coop. Declared victory and let the rats take what was left of the feed. Saigon in miniature.

The thing with growing your own food and up-keeping your own home and community is, it's a real full-time job. Not much attention left for Netflix shows or Youtube vids about inter-dimensional MK ULTRA psychic queens and time-traveling lizard people and Antarctic Nazi bases... Instead you have to look for what's entertaining about the current narrative you inhabit, aka existence.

The crummy part is the CG's not as good. The nice part is that it's real, aka the Truth.

The challenge of these post, post-modern times is not to simulate hardship while simultaneously trying to maximize ease and comfort, it's to love the real, boring hardship that comes with real life.

Love the whole process.

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Whenever someone hammers Christianity, I do go Taoist and Confucian, but when Land is echoed to death, mind I ask, is this what Zizek means when he prioritize love of kin over utilitarian relations and cynicism?

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I don't understand the question

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Zizek noted that liberated love is a revolution rationalist utilitarian thinking within social relationships, and cynicism as part of political enslavement. Or more simply, love beats manipulation and blackpills. Can this be a left-flavored reading on how people need to "socialize"/"organize" (just get together instead of doing le activism) away from this managerial hellscape?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBKRZCgtz6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6_6DFNsVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGBXvf-vba4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr7hr5Pztl0

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