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It's very difficult to make music matter culturally I think. Maybe I'm projecting but I'm sensing this new sort of besides-the-point-ness about music. A lot of the writing reads like echoes, conventions staying alive by virtue of being conventions. Even if you find a way of writing about it...

Sure but I just don't like this behavior, this thing where if you air some meaningless pet grievance indirectly related to a serious topic, some finger wagger is going to appear in your face going 'you know, people are actually dying, but I guess you don't care about that', making nasty little...

Ah come one. What is this? You want to go around the room and let everyone say how serious an issue police violence is? Everyone, literally everyone agrees. Of course I understand that whatever I'm on about is meaningless compared to people dying. Fucking ridiculous to just assume that I don't...

I don't think that's fair. Everything I've said here is sincere, apart from the very obvious jokes about violence, which, if you found them in bad taste, I do apologize. These are my views as I've mentioned them: I think it is fine to say ACAB if you mean it I think it is fine to say ACAB even...

I actually dislike cops. Did you not read my initial post? You are allowed to have a high stakes political showdown but create your own thread please! This one is mine and it is for casually poking fun at each other's political posturings, or of course for working out the nuances of the police...

I'm also not convinced we don't momentarily pass through these states of detachment all the time -- in the moments we might call beautiful -- but that they are fickle states easily contaminated by a whiff of ideology (capitalism, whatever)

my instinct tells me this stuff is possible but rarely truly achieved because you have to practically kill yourself (not your body, your brain) to get to the other side

How far do you reckon you'd have to go to make the cut? Before democracy certainly. Before Abrahamic religion?

Borges' Tlon is an example of this imagination of course. To be fair I always found it to be pushing it a bit.

Modernists who saw the birth of the city experienced in it a new sense of time that was distinct from what was before. They were able to circumscribe this sense of time as their subject because they had a vantage point outside of it, belonging to some earlier but still real state of things. We...

that's a good bit

I guess you can say ACAB and be like what the hell. That's a normal part of trying things out, see how they fit, dabbling in different opinions and subcultures. But if you go online to carefully proclaim your right to say ACAB and not actually mean it then I think you should be smothered in your...

the worst form of american gluttony

Also I'm not talking about some victim of police violence cursing their very existence in a fit of despair. I'm talking about people online carefully delineating these positions, people desperate to fortify their bourgeoise respectability while feeding on the glamour of radical politics

If you don't mean that all cops are bastards then don't say that all cops are bastards. It's this assumption that you are entitled to say one thing and mean another that pisses me off. Take some responsibility for your words please. Unless it's obviously ironic, which my curb stomping comment...

what the fuck is going on here

I would like one of these for each member of dissensus.

It's no joke winter depression. Take vitamin d

You get more sensitive to these things when you get older don't you? Winters are very dark in Denmark but I used to not really think about it. Now it seems like a curse to live under, this collective sapping of spirit, like an enforced period of mourning. On the other hand things like a...

i have no semiotics for this stuff. it's mostly random noise to me, though the second one seems worse.