Dialectics enjoyers:

I’m reminded of the RedSails article on the theory of ‘brainwashing’. Certain phrases are useful in providing moral license to support imperialism instead of critically examining one’s preconceptions

Why does le narwhal bacon? I think these phrases just catch on.

This reddit comment is one example, but it’s everywhere that there are liberals. Places like Bluesky too

GTD (Getting Things Done) method is popular. I don’t follow it exactly, but the ideas are still good to know about. It’s about being able to trust in a system so that you don’t have a nagging feeling that you are forgetting something. That’s only possible if you know that the system you are using will remember, so that you can offload that info from your brain and focus on the present task.

One thing I took from GTD is that there is no “bucket” for tasks less than ~5 minutes. This is because there is no purpose in taking the time to estimate tasks that small; do it immediately. For my personal habits, this was helpful because I tend to defer even the most minor tasks until they accumulate into a heap. Now, for small things like emptying a trash can, if I see it is full, I do it immediately and don’t allow myself to contemplate. It is done before I had time to think.

Non-ADHD answer: Develop better “attention hygiene”. Reduce the amount of dopamine hits you self-inflict. It is like if you know you are supposed to eat vegetables once in a while, but you only stock candy and fried snacks. Your brain decides based on perceived benefit, which can be, and is, manipulated by things like packaging, bright colors, crunch and texture, etc. which are all precisely engineered in a lab for processed foods.

I have previously posted a couple times on this: post 1, post 2

emacs helps me focus soo much, it is far less distracting because it’s only text

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Craterellus cornucopioides:

This reminded me that Kekri season is approaching. That is always neat for me as a non native resident

use a Macbook for the hardware, the unix-based OS, and the good battery life. Then install Emacs and just live inside there. I occasionally look for GNU/Linux “ultrabooks” or Macbook competitors, but they’re always a little worse in a few ways. Better because they use GNU/Linux though, of course.

@Azazel@lemmy.ml Not sure what your point is with this comment? who are you talking about?

Steinem defended her relationship with the CIA, saying: “In my experience the agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable.” Steinem also stated that she considered the CIA to be allies in promoting U.S. government policy against communism during the early Cold War. — NATOpedia

Although most frequently considered a liberal feminist, Steinem repeatedly characterized herself as a radical feminist.

Great, thanks so much! Respect for working through some less glamorous material. I believe that a lot of the sexy revolutionary theory has been worked out already, and that the intellectual work that really needs doing (besides, of course, practical organizing and agitation) is the less sexy empirical analysis and extending the historical understanding for which Marx only laid the foundation. There are a lot of interesting threads that should be pulled, like this question on class society, but I also would like one day to read more on the Christianization of Europe and indeed the world, and how that interacted with the development of capitalism via the suppression of paganism etc.

I have one minor hesitance, not to say a challenge, but a nagging question impelling me to learn more —

Your description of the commodity seems a little anachronistic, doesn’t it? Certainly commodities existed incidentally in precapitalist societies, and so did money. But it was not predominating production until the capitalist era; Marx writes about this in several places, which I can dig up if you would like. Money, too, was not money in its fully developed capitalist form, until the capitalist era. For example, money could not represent abstract labor until the commodity figures as the general form of the product of labor, which doesn’t happen until capitalism; money also would need to be generally exchangeable for any commodity whatsoever, but I thought that money was limited to a unit of account, accounting for unpaid taxes, in some of these ancient societies? not generally used for exchange of any two commodities?

This is only in particular social groups. Mainly school age children - almost all of them use iOS. Yet still it’s about 50-50 for the nation overall, it’s not at all at “herd immunity” levels where you can reasonably expect every single friend to use iOS

Idk, I have mostly used Android. Maybe that explains some things.

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Very interesting. Do you have any recommended reading or other material on this topic?

Also specifically Elon’s breeding fetish mindset

The workers themselves hold a contradictory consciousness, on the one hand informed by their class interest as workers, on the other hand tainted by bourgeois ideology and some minor privileges as imperial core residents. Hence you have contradictory subcultures, confused in their lashing against the conditions of the working class.

The task of communists is to raise the level of consciousness such that the working class can clearly process their own conditions, in order to overcome them.

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