oh hell yeah… the capitalist parasite you work for is gonna love you. he couldn’t have asked for a more perfectly backward wage worker content with a few meager scraps.
that paycheck is not guaranteed to be ‘steady’, that place you live is not your own - you’re paying rent… which means you’re either paying some parasite’s mortage, or putting even more profit in his pocket after he already profited from the labor of the workers who built the place - and your ‘boss’ is the inescapable circumstances you’re now in; continue working a third of your day for far less than your worth, give all your money to your landlord and other private businesses that own the utilities you use (keep a few dollars for a pack of cigarettes and a six pack), get a credit card (because you’re broke after bills) so you can go into debt buying shit you are subliminally convinced you need, and pay interest on every dollar you spend, or quit/lose your job and go live in a shelter (funded by other working class tax payers).
or you can… (wait for it)… become a capitalist parasite yourself. if you can’t beat em, join em.
(this is why a socialist can’t have a debate/discussion about socialism with anyone but a socialist. none of em know wtf their talking about… and this is no mistake. it’s taken a hundred years or more for capitalists to fill the public discourse with all kinds of bullshit about socialism so you don’t dare go near it)
and a notable irony i never forget when i talk to people opposed to socialism; there is nothing about most of the simpletons that is so extraordinary that living in a socialist society would threaten them or make any fucking difference in their lives. in fact, it would make life better for these simpletons, who are by and large part of the working class, anyway. every bit of their opposition to socialism is nothing but a mass of hot air floating around in their heads… shit they got from the crap they read and watch on youtube.
the only one’s who are in legitimate danger are the capitalists and investors, and their opposition is expected and appropriate. these guys don’t want to work (sure, that’s understandable), and the first thing socialism would do is put them to work so they can stop being parasites. instead of accepting this noble gesture to become something better, they’d prefer to live off the labor of others. it’s at this point that they are excluded from the discourse; there is no reasoning with them. they have to be overcome by force.
PZR: What is your goal?
Socialist: Equality
PZR: But you yourself don’t believe you are equal to, say, people that are downtrodden or people that are capitalist parasites.
Socialist: Yeah, I have come to accept that. The world isn’t perfect.
PZR: Lol. Ok but so then, what is your goal?
Socialist: For people to do what they want. Freedom.
PZR: Some people want to kill other people. Some people want to accumulate and invest capital.
Socialist: Yeah, that’s because they don’t want the right things.
PZR: You can’t be… Ok, so they have to be taught?
Socialist: Yeah, it’s about education.
PZR: So your goal is to teach people what to want?
Socialist: Yeah, exactly.
PZR: I see…
I like this historical aphorisms.
And this is always been the way of civilization, which Weary Locomotive posited against culture, where the two are opposites, irreconcilable.
it was something about a factory chicken being inferior to a wild chicken. i have been permanently traumatized by WL’s choice of analogy, and will never forget these haunting, though profound, words of wisdom.
Yes, it was about the method.
Of killing, in this case.
He said method was all there is to any form of thought worth its salt. There is a lot of actual salt being used in a good thought.
If WL were on ILP now, and we would ask him if he approves of our methods, I expect his answer woud be something like this.
Kierkegaard (it’s never easy, though. fucking dude was deep)
Heraclitus
Parmenides (not for too long, though)
Nietzsche (it gets annoying though. people want to make it about who’s the tough guy)
Abelard
Diogenes
Unamuno
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero (possibly only for Venezuelans though, was all about the philosophical underpinnings of the intersection between Africa, the injuns and the Spanish)
um…
Walter Benjamin
I’m sure there’s more. There must be more.
Baudrillard
Laurelle
Guattari (beware of commies. this one is debatable. But no, motherfucker is fun to read when that annoying putz Deleuze goes away)
Ok fine, Deleuze. For an even briefer moment than Parmenides
Hume. Hume is fine.
Foucault… I guess… He was so self-important in how he wrote… Like cmon man… Thats the thing with gays, they always want to impress people. Smart sonofabitch though.
Um…
Plate. Not anything he wrote, but it’s fun to try to imagine the type of guy he was.
I had to include Deleuze because he introduced me to Liebniz. Leibniz? Lol I always fuck it up. In that weird video he shot about the alphabet and animals. He has a pleasant arrogance. The gods of philosophy forgive him for that reason.
Damn, they took the complete video down. Here’s the intro
No you don’t, you old manipulative commie bastard. I believed you for a second when you said you thought I was worth at least three times my salary. Now I realize it’s all part of a wider communist agenda.
