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get nine dashed line pilled: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/12/south-china-sea-us-ghosts-strategic-tensions/617380/

mother horse eyes is also essential reading, for those who dont know: https://reddit.com/r/9M9H9E9/w/narrative?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app

ahem

its up there with the green mile and AI as one of my most hated films

no one else hits that spot imo

Ballard's fiction is suburban england scifi

Ballard, altho both amazing ofc

evergreen thread, the cold war is back

not sure if I agree, his fiction is amazing, a real touchstone

there is no antimemetics division, very cool so far, kind of like PKD meets u/_9mother9horse9eyes9

not watched dune but his remake of blade runner is one of the most boring films I've ever seen, like a music vid that lasts for three hours

could trump as a russian agent be a motivating fact behind the marshalling of the censorship industrial complex tho? it doesnt ultimately matter if it's true or not. as long as the right ppl think it is

it's a state of mind

me too tbf, I blame the weather - its sunny I'm having a beer

this seemed pretty funny at the time but in retrospect it just looks like we're trading insults

it's a good book, you should read it (on the bus) for an ultra materialist take on the last 1000 years

I think you understand exactly but youre just pretending not to bc you're the biggest pseud on the board

1000 years of non linear history is best understood whilst half-drunk. I'm out in ancoats almost every week so we can have a seminar wherever you like

a potentially positive aspect of the poly-crisis is that its threatening aspect means that options which were previously off the table become suddenly possible and maybe even prudent. e.g., see the strange rebirth of industrial policy in the US. the poly-crisis has killed off neoliberalism, what...

I agree with the OP in that the idea of a perma-crisis - altho true hipsters call it a "polly-crisis" akshully - legitimates authoritarian, state of exception responses, but also think that theres an element of truth to the term