Resistance is Futile.

[luka]

Luka took too many drugs and too little hugs — that's what I (with my 4 As at A Level) am hearing.

i never hug. i really dont like it.

 

[luka]

i felt like hugging was something they invented in the 90s without consulting me

 

[shiels]

i wrote a brilliant poem about it. i sent it to someone who happened to be having a psychotic episode as they read it and they said it completely encapsulated what they were going through and made things much worse and scarier. i was really happy about that. i felt a rubicon had been crossed in human development.

I burst out laughing at this

 

[luka]

invasive.

 

[Mr. Tea]

"Drugs > hugs" was nomadologists's board sig for a while, IIRC.

 

[Corpsey]

I burst out laughing at this

Callous.

 

[entertainment]

i didnt follow this but it sounds like its maybe interesting. like a battle call. what does it mean?

Well we form our identities in negotiation with the public space we inhabit. Online, this is done very explicit, there's only a limited number of parametres to your character. It's flat, it's an avatar, manufactured. The posts we post are not our literal thoughts and emotions. They can be representations of them but they have all gone through the cerebrial filter. Online self is detached from any real humanity. It's artifice, representation.

But offline, our selves is human and fluid. We enact ourselves privately in our own head and that becomes part of who we are. All the experiences we have and emotions we feel, they're all captured as they are, not as how they've been externalized consciously.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I burst out laughing at this

Me too. Sadistic anti-therapy via the medium of poetry.

 

[shiels]

i never hug. i really dont like it.

how did I already know that? I love hugging people who hate hugging, making Them submit to my affection

 

[luka]

how did I already know that? I love hugging people who hate hugging, making Them submit to my affection

you dont take your shoes off on the grass in summer. how can you be a hugger?

 

[entertainment]

We need to engage more with constant_escape, it's getting tragic.

 

[Corpsey]

Sounds like Shiels is going to be the first dissensian to get MeToo'd

 

[luka]

We need to engage more with constant_escape, it's getting tragic.

i got shiels to respond to him with something very intelligent

 

[luka]

im aware of the issue and i am addressing it

 

[shiels]

They’re not strangers, they’re friends that don’t like hugging obv. Especially emotionally repressed hard men.

 

[luka]

Well we form our identities in negotiation with the public space we inhabit. Online, this is done very explicit, there's only a limited number of parametres to your character. It's flat, it's an avatar, manufactured. The posts we post are not our literal thoughts and emotions. They can be representations of them but they have all gone through the cerebrial filter. Online self is detached from any real humanity. It's artifice, representation.

But offline, our selves is human and fluid. We enact ourselves privately in our own head and that becomes part of who we are. All the experiences we have and emotions we feel, they're all captured as they are, not as how they've been externalized consciously.

i dont want to agree with this. even without reading it properly i just feel something insdie of me wanting to kick out at it.

 

[luka]

i dont like the hard border between online and off

 

[Corpsey]

How about this — "futility" is resistance?

Resistance to the hug of God.

 

[luka]

you just remindned me of what i was thinking while i was having a shit this morning

 

[entertainment]

maybe it shouldn't be a hard border, but there are very real differences that have very real effects on psyche

like those pathological instagram girls who need constant social validation. something's gone awry there and it has to do with internet and self, but maybe the theory could use some work