I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.

    • LeninsRage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think this was kind of the central point of Society of the Spectacle, in that working people become so alienated by mass media and mass consumption that they become unable to actually relate with each other save through the middleman of spectacular commodity. See also my rant about social media elsewhere in this thread. But also how in current moment our go-to conversations with co-workers usually aren't about things that matter, like grievances against the boss, planning things to do outside of worker, or discussing political issues; it's the Game Last Night, or superhero movies, or the last episode of Game of Thrones, or which epic memes you've seen lately, or the last crazy thing Trump said on Twitter.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      In the atomized and alienated hellscape of late stage capital our only cultural commonality is how big of an orgasm we had watching the latest Marvel film.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I feel this every time someone tries to refute a historical argument of mine with an example from a Marvel movie

    • AnarchoLeninist [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      As the resident Star Wars defender, people should compare fiction to real life. Anyone that compares real life to fiction is an infant, and you need to check up on them and make sure they aren't chewing on a battery or something

    • sailorfish [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      This is the one that gets me too. I genuinely do believe that people absorb many things better when it's through metaphors and stories but like. When did we become incapable of talking about shit without referencing YA books or Marvel movies?