Ok so today I opened play store after like months of not downloading anything from there cause I needed an ugly proprietary app, and the first thing I see in the home page is this masterpiece. A self help app to make you accept your misery and become a better slave of yourself and ultimately of the capital.
What the fuck "MANIFEST" means? Are we at a point where magic is a viable option?
Also hate to say it, but I'm afraid your fitness goals are a bit incompatible, almost as if nothing of this made any sense in the first place
Ok, read and share quotes, the most subtle way to distort the image of random historical figures to prove your nonexistent point.
WOW!! Really seems like this app has no purpose other than making you feel guilty of your own misery, distracting you from the sistemic problem, other than just eating all your personal data
Ahh I love ranting about these things, thanks for listening to my ted talk
Manifest
Like so many horrible, horrible things this started with Oprah
The Secret popularized the idea that if you just want something real bad it'll come true, then Oprah promoted it on her show. Now, almost twenty years later, countless people think they can just magic their way out of capitalist misery.
It's like some weird quasi-secular intervention of the saints things. Just pray real hard and god will grant you wishes. I've never bothered to read the accursed thing.
Also; Gonna start a "Daily Zen" app where someone comes around at random times of the day to hit you with a stick until you attain enlightenment.
It serves a triple purpose: it gives wealthy people like Oprah a way to justify their "success," while at the same time getting the working class to not only blame themselves for their own failures rather than the vampiric capitalist class (while also allowing the capitalists an avenue for the same thought patterns: "poor people are to blame for their own poverty"), but also be convinced that if they only keep trying with a little more positivity in their hearts, they can write their own Horatio Alger story.
Yeah, for me it’s like the double whammy of:
-
Inequality is natural, because those that have more (or less) are getting what they deserve/earn (re: pseudo-meritocracy)
-
Inequality is good, because it motivates the poor to work harder and produce/consume more
And these two points are core to the neoliberal agenda. These kinds of apps (and a lot of “mental health” discourse, whether it comes from “evidence-based” Western psychologists or influencers) are so insidious with how they justify and reinforce neoliberal values
how they justify and reinforce neoliberal values
This is also how /r/UpliftingNews and related bazinga subs operate.
-
Horatio Alger
His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age.
No one is immune to propaganda, and telling people in rags "rags to riches" fantasies encouraged them to dwell in fantasy instead of do dangerous things like ask "why do those assholes have riches?"
Was just about to post this, as soon as I saw the vision board; it's that Secret shit indeed
The point of these apps isn't to help you, it's to gather your user data so they can sell it to advertisers.
We want our workers to be happy and fulfilled so we made this app for them!10 seconds of Buddhism
- There is suffering
- The cause of suffering is desire
Enough of that!Next activity: obsess over everything you want. Stare at pictures of them, like pages of them, think about how empty your life is without them... Ok, now that you're properly focused, back to work! How else will I manifest a yacht without working for it
Corpos came up with "dark Buddhism" to cover your concerns. "What if Buddhism but about greed and selfishness?"
I hate this shit like a Luddite, not for what it is precisely, but for its application. Nothing inherently wrong with pumping good vibes in my book. Fuck this particular shit though
or a supposed reduction in insurance premiums
Similar grift to "sentence reduction" on inflated sentences in prison in return for more legalized slavery.
i would like to manifest a pipe-bomb into the esophagus of whoever came up with this shit
Extremely hot take, I think these can be good
It essentially serves the exact same purpose as religion does minus the third place aspect, and I agree with Marx's take on religion
Gives people hope and keeps them going forward
I know quite a few people who do these and it truly has helped them a lot. Moreso than therapy or meds have
Of course, just like religion, it could also prompt people to completely ignore their problems and give up on truly improving their situation as well
Materialists are by far the most down groups of people I've ever met, including myself, of course
I'm sitting around at home manifesting the revolution in my head. It's not working. Got any tips?
the douglas rushkoff ep of trueanon goes into it. but essentially these are made by techies who go do ayahuasca and "discover empathy" and then go about using their savior complex to try to "spiritually" save the world instead. ig you can say their intentions are good but really they don't do anything except stave off alienation ig but without consciousness it's just steeling your nerves for hotter water.
techies who go do ayahuasca and "discover empathy" and then go about using their savior complex to try to "spiritually" save the world instead. ig you can say their intentions are good
If you look at their statements more closely, most of the time their idea of "empathy" is some kind of "WOW! EVERY HUMAN IN THE WORLD HAS MY FACE IN THIS TRIP" juiced up narcissism anyway.
