In a very real sense we do li:e in a fantasy world, where the pervasive oppositional disingenuous bullshit and disinformation have poisoned us, and we trust the shit we made up to process stuff as high level abstractions without necessarily tying them back to anything remotely near bare-metal material reality.
And tyen when people find exploits in tjose abstractions, there is no recourse, nothing to check them against.
Reality is happening, but we do not comprehend it.
Edit: if you want fiction about this, the book ‘echopraxia’ has this running through it, or the film ‘eddington’ which is entirely about this.
At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.
Its not about the money directly, it’s about the alienation from things like labor and value, plus absolutely insane shit people need to believe to feel okay in it.
In a very real sense we do li:e in a fantasy world, where the pervasive oppositional disingenuous bullshit and disinformation have poisoned us, and we trust the shit we made up to process stuff as high level abstractions without necessarily tying them back to anything remotely near bare-metal material reality.
And tyen when people find exploits in tjose abstractions, there is no recourse, nothing to check them against.
Reality is happening, but we do not comprehend it.
Edit: if you want fiction about this, the book ‘echopraxia’ has this running through it, or the film ‘eddington’ which is entirely about this.
At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.
I know it’s cliche, but i think capitalism deserves a lot of the blame.
Sure, but I’d wager it goes beyond the singular manifestation of power as money. Plenty of other manifestations, and all lead to similar places.
Its not about the money directly, it’s about the alienation from things like labor and value, plus absolutely insane shit people need to believe to feel okay in it.