lame irony

"Critical theorist Slavoj Žižek argues that this sort of "cynical reason" reveals how postmodern irony actually serves contemporary structures of power. He suggests that modern ideology does not work via false consciousness, where we are fooled by the fictions that support those in power. Instead, we accept and even willing participate in these fictions, even as we congratulate ourselves (usually via winking self-irony) for being able to see through them. As Žižek puts it, "even if we do not take things seriously, even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them."

- Derek Nystrom
An old prof of mine.

Now, what can we apply this to? Hm...

whoa

Watch it through. It's crazy. I think Julian showed it to me, unless it was you - it might have been you...but it might have been Julian. I don't know, I can picture both of you saying it. Anyway:

parakeets, everywhere.

Society of the Spectacle

Think:
Facebook
Social media

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior. The spectacle, as a tendency to make one see the world by means of various specialized mediations (it can no longer be grasped directly), naturally finds vision to be the privileged human sense which the sense of touch was for other epochs; the most abstract, the most mystifiable sense corresponds to the generalized abstraction of present-day society. But the spectacle is not identifiable with mere gazing, even combined with hearing. It is that which escapes the activity of men, that which escapes reconsideration and correction by their work. It is the opposite of dialogue. Wherever there is independent representation, the spectacle reconstitutes itself.

-Society of the Spectacle

:)

so good.

You know, I kind of get gangster rap. It's just so...URRRGHH!! you know?

the universe, again

We are everything and nothing.
http://htwins.net/scale/index.html

what existence?

Rest your mouse on the picture and read what pops up.

Explains Much

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism

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