yep, and in an even weird twist the private space becomes public. Baudrillard talks about this too (way before the internet was even created lol) - infact he talks about this in regards two lovers - the lovers go to work, earn their keep, and go home to their room and and close the door on teh world. he uses all kinds of metaphysics and complex shit to describe how that encounter, behind a closed door to the world, i.e. the intensely private and intimate, is, well, something sacred. a kind of profound human experience of The Real, full of risk and danger and reward. Now teh two lovers for half the evening are posting on insta, they have all their friends in their pocket, could get a text at any time, so tehir public and private space is truly blurred, that the destinction between the private space is now not private in an absoloute sense. (this is why i turn off my phoen when fishing, and keep it off. i want those few hours to be an experience "outside of media"). this is why people on the left talk often about fordsim - the factory worker goes to work, clocks off, and on his walk home away from teh factory he is confronted somewhat with the "real" - i.e. the private space opens up to him somewhat. it is is in some senses "his". but now we turn that private space into means of more capital exchange every time we pick up our phone, which we do over and over, in a compulsive, addiction way. Our freedom and spaces have never been so monitised and spied on. every time i go for a walk with my phone on, google makes money off the tracking - "freedom", walking itself, monitised. "everythign that once connected us is slowly disappearing" as my fav philosopher has written, and he truly, deeply means it. He too talks about the slow erosion of third spaces like pubs, social clubs, working mens clubs, nightclubs, busy hight streets, and how they are all disappearing and not really being replaced. he believes that dystopia is not far off, something to ward off, but it is now. which i don't subscribe to, philosophy like we've discussed is just one prism. we still have a (sense of) agency and choice and most people i speak to are aware that care should be taken on how to spend ones time and how one should engage with media. there's so many different ways to view this stuff that is not so bleak. for me a lot of it depends on who i am reading at the time, Baudrillard one, Byung Chul Han the other. its entertaining if nothing else to read differernt views of "how things are".
Vivian added:
Hello everyone, I’m going to forego my standard tone for this because this is important. As you may or may not know, Grimes is currently in a custody battle with Elon over their 3 children. What you probably don’t know, however, is that Elon has been illegally and continuously keeping their children, her children, away from their mother during the most important developmental period in a child’s life.
While Elon has been irresponsibly partying across the ocean in the very country he’s spitting contemptuous poison about, Grimes’ children are stuck in a house thousands of miles away without their mother. This is potentially irreversibily damaging to a child’s psyche and is, without question, a despicable form of abuse. This is not the first time this has happened and if nothing changes, likely not the last.
I’ve only been able to catch glimpses of this from behind the scenes and it has been both horrifying and enraging that no one has been able to do anything about it. I cannot stress this enough, this is ILLEGAL. He does not have the custody to be able to do this. Yet, since Elon has an infinite amount of funds to pool from, he has been able to successfully employ them to take their children away from the mother that they desperately require. This needs to end, now.
X has been paraded around social media solely for the purpose of boosting his own brand image of “responsible father” when that could not be further from the truth. Meanwhile, behind the scenes he is both uncaring and absent while robbing their children of a mother. Please, do not let this continue. Thank you
You think that's important work then? Attempting to psychoanalyse Trump? Ill.
Dunno help what? Kamala? Ask me a coherent question I might answer.
You had a go at a poster for a post that seemed reasonable enough to me, and said it hasn't helped, so what do you feel would help?
Help what like asked dumbski
The pope is a fool
What is he even talking about here?
Yeah all I can think of is some reference to abortion but I don't think Musk really cares about that so no idea what he is jabbering about.
