doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

@b33rbashjawnson protest the hero is the only objectionable thing i heard about that night, that sounds like a lot of fun lmao

i cannot confirm or deny whether or not i have ingested lsd

@f00fc7c8 i've stopped trying to read those signs for their literal words, because its so rarely what they actually mean (and even more rarely can it actually apply to me, in the way i view gender, which is very heterogenous and not reducible to any particular boundary like "no straight people")

but, you kinda said it yourself imo, "if you have a good reason to use the resource..." then you should. if you think you're actively harming someone by your use of the resource yknow, i'd maybe rethink it, but, if you are deviant enough in your conception of gender as to actively disregard the man/woman dichotomy... uhhhh idk that's pretty queer i guess is all im saying lmao

@unbody i think, to really live up to his principles, he should've tried to consume the other members

Georges Bataille was a philosopher who, in the 30's started two groups simultaneously. One, the College of Sociology, and it's more private side, the Secret Society of Acephale.

Acephale anonymously published works attempting to "retake" Nietzsche from the fascists, the Nazis, who had started abusing his work.

The Acephale publications were writings of a very anarchic nature, which utilized Nietzsche's philosophy, the sociological work of Durkheim on Religion, and its relationship to the Profane or to the Sacred, to try to understand the changing world they existed in. Some of the publications come with meditations to carry out.

To Bataille, the entire world had become profane. Capitalism, States, Fascism, and the "Communist System" of the Soviets had destroyed the Sacred itself. All of the possible Sacreds, constantly demoted to Profane by the uncaring mechanical logics of these systems.

Bataille wanted an explosion of the Sacred across the entirety of the world. And, to skip forward quite ahead, eventually thought that to complete this explosion of the sacred, he needed to sacrifice himself. To become an Acephalic figure, headless, like that of the universe. He wanted his friends to kill him, but none wanted to.

@nyx how's that working out for you so far?

should Bataille's friend's have killed him when he asked them to, for the sake of the propagation of the Myth of Acephale?

@eris lmao yeah it's currently my least favorite thing about the culture here. tendencies towards meta conversation or conversation about twitter. don't care about either.

but i also know i gotta ground philosophy conversations more than i typically do if i'm expecting others to engage with more than a like or boost because they liked the way something sounded.

@eris i'd really like that! i've been doing a bit of a "rebirth" of all my online spaces recently to try to make them more about facilitating research and discussion on philosophy/theology/political theory.

i'm not sure the best way to structure things on here yet to get that experience but it is actively something i'm attempting to cultivate!

@eris i've got 3 characters all around the same levels from when i stopped playing before (anywhere between lvl 30 to 50)

but i've been mostly playing on a dex/int build i've got

@OpaqueLightbulb yeah the fact that its obvious that its "Bob from idaho" i think will cause a lot of friction and pain at first, it'll cause some people to distrust the fediverse forever, it'll cause some people to prefer the abstracted administration, but will eventually, for most people, cause a tendency towards small semi-"self-hosted" islands of friends

so i started playing elden ring again

the silly instance drama between admins is one of the biggest ones that would almost completely be avoided if more people started instances for themselves and people they knew personally already.

i know this isn't possible for everyone, and i totally think there should be places that have good practices for new users, but still.

@sarahzedig god i would love to hatewatch surf dracula and now i'm mad that i'll never get to

a lot of the frustrations new users have with somewhere like mastodon is the expected UX, having just come from centralized networks, and abstracted administration powers. but (in most cases, imo) it quickly becomes a learning experience for what the rest of the sites on the internet are constantly doing and constantly trying to hide that they're doing from users.

overly optimistic i think but, i'm hoping that the more direct relationship between users and admins on the fediverse is going to make a lot of people take account of what they actually want out of a social media, and a relationship with a website owner.

fingers crossed it encourages people towards more conscious self-hosting for the real relationships you want to have online. but like i said, i'm probably being overly optimistic

@eris ooh, thanks for the heads up on that!