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Television is a god-damned amusement park.

JESUS SYNCHRONICITY CHRIST

I literally just watched that bit of "Network" on YouTube. Like 30 seconds ago.

I believe that I can't be arsed to articulate my metaphysical beliefs because I'll just end up changing my mind anyway.

And lack of maintenance on nuclear reactors means the safety systems will fail, resulting in their catastrophic meltdown. Happy fun times.

What good is that going to do your descendants in 150 years?

why should I (or anyone) care?

I care because I want to spawn the dynasty that rules the Pacific Northwest with a keen eye and an iron fist. In order for this dynasty to happen, the little shits will need to be able to survive.

Troof. In the event of societal collapse etc., whoever spawns the most surviving grandkids wins. Or at least that's how I like to view it.

Lets get a little metaphysical and overextend our metaphors, shall we?

I was reading Foucault again (a bad habit), this time on the subject of prisons and power relations, and it got me thinking.  For Foucault, a power relation only exists where there is intentionality, therefore in a social sphere.  Prison therefore, is an example of power at work, because the presence of guards, a "reform" system (that doesn't work), a criminal lawyer profession, a prison reform political lobby, a tough on crime lobby, a whole host of politicians, "scare" crime TV etc form a vast chain of interlinking strategies which form a social arrangement we call a prison, where the influence and domination of one group of people is forced upon another.

By contrast, consider a dungeon. A man chained up and left in a cell, forgotten by the world, unwatched, physically constricted and forgotten, but otherwise unmolested, is not caught up in a social power arrangement.  He is physically constricted, to be sure, but otherwise left alone.

Would it not be sensible to consider the Black Iron Dungeon a metaphor for our own physical limitations, our inability to hear beyond certain ranges, our cognitive defects, our lack of strength or whatever as this dungeon?  They are (as of now, at least) conditions we cannot help, they are built-in defects that we cannot overcome.

On the other hand, the Black Iron Prison, like its real life namesake, is that of a social arrangement.  There are factors at work, levels of power, of control, strategies that form the particulars of this prison. 

You see what I mean?  There is an element of power and social relations in the latter not present in the former, which call for different methods of analysis and consideration, concerning their effects and means to change this.  To change the dungeon may involve the utilization of technology, of genetic engineering or smart drugs or whatever, whereas to change the prison, it would involve strategy, social hacks, the utilization of emergence and application of control of options to affect outcomes.

I would just like to say that this OP is a pretty damn good version of what I've been trying to explain for a while, and far more elaborate and specific.

I'm one of those freaks who doesn't care for cheese steaks.

Weirdo.

Woah, what just happened?

An anti-Pinealist n00b! Why can't we have more of these?

I got my Nigel Beads today!
Pix as soon as I find something to put them on...

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Now I've got The Hate. I swear this stuff is contagious.

Archaic...it's older than some posters on this board, I think.  *blush*  But it's because it obscures the stitches. OR maybe I'm switching it to the wrong side.  It can go both ways, the way the feet switch out.

I dunno.  Been a while.  But I know I struggle to keep the zipper WITHIN the damned seam because of the fucking foot.

18 and 1/2 makes it almost exactly as old as me.

Oh yes, now I definitely get it.

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