Submitted by zoom_zip in lobby

hello friends,

i had some...basically forum posts...that were lingering around, that i felt like collecting together. i've called them rants, i don't know what else you would call them. most people would probably throw them on a blog but i don't really get along with any blogging system. these texts are very surface level entry points into a couple of subjects that were basically conversations i've had with people on discord and then re-typed into a block of text and then thrown onto a static page.

the first basically covers some low-level insight on why acab. the second is an anti-landlord rant. the third is basically a repetition on something that everybody knows anyway and probably didn't need to be typed up. the fourth is a kind of abstract take on not falling into ideology.

i'm posting them here because i guess i would appreciate some feedback on these, but otherwise don't know what else to do with them. i like sharing stuff, but always second guess myself on if anybody would give a shit to receive it.

if nothing else, pumping them out onto the internet helps get them out of my head.

peace.

z_z

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subrosa wrote

work is not normal.

How about: Work is normal. Fuck the norm.

Alright subrosa, enough being annoying for today.
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zoom_zip OP wrote

yeah, work has been normalised, but i'm definitely in that camp of looking around thinking what the fuck are you all doing? i can't see it as normal anymore. i either have to accept that i've lost my mind, or everyone else is cursed.

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zoom_zip OP wrote

i think you’ve got the right of it. we can’t help but fill ourselves with trash. like you said, reading books, watching films, talking to other people, etc. all these things push themselves in and corrupt us (or compliment us, or change something about us, or can be used to reflect on ourselves, or something). if they didn’t then we would be empty shells. blank canvases covered in that hydrophobic coating so the paint just slides right off. you’re right, that’s impossible.

i guess i was thinking about how deeply people embrace these pre-established ideologies. taking the thing as a whole, rather than an opportunity to take only what you need.

i used to know a guy who was so into communism he started wearing long coats and those ushanka fur hats. he started calling people “comrade”. his mind embraced the ideology. his body embraced the aesthetic. his identity became a pastiche of the ideology.

in some way i think that’s different from passive exposure.

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thanks for the vote of confidence, but i think calling them essays implies some sort of status that they probably don’t deserve. they’re not academic. i don’t cite my sources. i’m definitely not any kind of authority on any of these subjects. these aren’t important texts. they’re just thoughts that stuck to a page.

i may go back to them. i already did a few times. i wouldn’t mind filling the page up with a few more on different topics though, first.

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