Cybernetic Culture Research Unit

Post by trasz4 » Mon, May 15, 2023, 12:09 PM UTC

breckinloggins wrote: post #13

api wrote: post #10

… or what happens when you give massive amounts of meth to academic pomo philosophy majors… There were some interesting ideas in there in the beginning, albeit not as original as some thought. A lot of that stuff just goes back to cybernetics, psychedelia, and occultism. But then the CCRU turned a bit culty and some of them including Land lost their minds. The Land went full fascist. There seems to be a connection be…

I wonder if this is the result of becoming desensitized to ever-more-radical ideas until one arrives at either fascism or some other hardcore uncompromising -ism? Kind of like a porn addiction but for philosophy, politics, and ethics.

Post by FooBarBizBazz » Mon, May 15, 2023, 12:53 PM UTC

asynchronous wrote: post #27

api wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the same thing at all. The dosages for one are much lower, and people with ADD have a different reaction. ADD is real. It’s not something people make up and it’s not a social pathology. It’s no different from people needing eyeglasses.

I’ve heard it described as “it’s the same thing like bread is the same as beer.”