The Scapegoat

[catalog]

Yeah, no doubt. I mean, more power to em, I've no problem with that per se.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Yeah, just how it works. He seems to have gotten a lot from Debord, Barthes and Saussure. That being said, I much prefer Baudrillard to the Repeater stuff.

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

It does all sound a bit familiar and I suppose thoroughly gone over with k punk, repeater etc.

Something that occurred to me last night was there's a nervous energy to the English stuff like Mark's whereas Baudrillard's much more cool and detached. You could read that as a purely aesthetic thing or some indication of morality, but the latter's more enjoyable to read, imo.

 

[entertainment]

The future, more than ever, appears to be watching the pendulum of collective psychosis swinging perpetually back and forth.

i love these nietzschean aphorisms you get from version sometimes

the solemnity of that paranthetical 'more than ever'... shivers!

 

[luka]

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

i love these nietzschean aphorisms you get from version sometimes

the solemnity of that paranthetical 'more than ever'... shivers!

I think I should have gone with "swing" rather than "swinging", but it's too late now.

 

[woops]

or a comma after "psychosis"

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

Another thing that appears to be happening is people conflating anyone taking issue with the pandemic response or apprehensive about the vaccine with their mental image of a stereotypical Trump supporter or conspiracy theorist when that isn't really the case.

Why Only 28 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated (Published 2021)

As the Delta variant courses through New York City, many young Black New Yorkers remain distrustful of the vaccine.

www.nytimes.com

They're still doing it,

It's time to start firing unvaccinated people: Trump fans are overdue for a lesson in consequences

The absolute certainty of losing a job is going to motivate a lot more people than the more abstract risk of dying

www.salon.com

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

 

[Murphy]

“Hold on”

- “Too late mate”

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

 

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[line b]

It happened to him twice???

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

It happened to him twice???

No, it's the same woman. A bunch of couples go to an island where single people try to tempt them into an affair.

 

[Murphy]

hazard banished her timidity

 

[ver$hy ver$h]

There's a Thiel interview where he says Girard believes scapegoating only works if the people aren't conscious that that's what they're doing. I can see the argument if we're talking some ancient people doing it based on a belief it will please the gods, bring back the rain or whatever, but nowadays I've a sense of people almost doing it for the love of the game and any particular outcome or narrative being less important than just having a target.