“The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. The violation of the masses, whom Fascism, with its Führer cult, forces to their knees, has its
counterpart in the violation of an apparatus which is pressed into the production of ritual values. All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.”
—Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
the imperial-civilizing machine with (de)humanization as its motor will be destroyed or We will be destroyed
not "slightly different concept of what it means to be human" but "completely emptied of power" abolition and destitution
today seemed to be some sort of crow meeting day. 30 or more of them seemed gathered near the tops of trees, mostly gathered around 4 to 5 trees within visible distance of each other. lots of cawing.
no swooping attacks at each other.
one or two crows would fly off in a particular direction, then one or two more in another direction only to come back within 5 or so minutes.
eventually 4 came over to our house (and i do believe these 4 to be the regulars that stop by our house daily) while the rest stayed at the tops of trees that i could see from my porch. i was a bit nervous, not wanting to be swarmed by the whole pack, but i gave them a bit of food in our regular manner, which they gratefully accepted and flew off with.
dude literally said "it's not possible to have self-consciousness without it involving mediation through language" and hasn't backed it up with a single thing
what i think i sounded like: "well you see like, there are characteristics and then there are extrinsic relations, right? and each set of extrinsic relations composes you as a power and part of a power, right?"
what i sounded like to the auto-transcript-generator:
one of the questions they asked was "who are you" and i swear to god i rambled for minutes trying to answer it
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.