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The recipe is an also mostly a grating essay filled with aspirational shit. Need to find some cheap cook books.

Can’t stand moistcriticals “I dont know anything but here is what I think” aura.

So much is psychological. Generations told how special they are and that they would change the world. The esoteric became low hanging fruit.

Devout catholics didn’t care what the pope thought. He says look after refugees, don’t discriminate against other religions and challenge capitalsim. The catholics are just like “deus vult lol” but are often too lazy to go full tradcatch. The whole thing feels more like an identity than any sort of genuine belief system.

I prefer today’s version. So many disillusioned people or obvious fascists. It’s beautiful.

The best are the book of revelation doomsday types. Like why does it even matter then?

Don’t think it’s a problem that gets fixed until there is a DoTP. Don’t think it’s an essential tool for getting there either.

People react to the tangible benefits over ideas. We can say religion is the opiate of the masses, but it’s the institution that dominates mutual aid, addiction services, bereavement and prisons. Finding people at their most desperate and rewiring their brains with hopeful experiences that lead to fanatical devotion.

Tech companies can only come so close with their multi-billion dollar algorithms. FOSS and decentralised efforts have entirely missed the mark by assuming that the lack of this sophistication is “a feature, not a bug”. This doesn’t appeal to most people. They want that dopamine fix from the algorithm. They want simple, intuitive tech, and TikTok reinvented the TV for them in a way Western tech pathetically couldn’t replicate, so they had to buy them out.

Let it happen. The “seed” is the social infrastructure we must build to deal with more important things like food, medicine and housing.

Remember when people used to freak out about fema camps?

It’s the singularity cult, capital is long dead and robot feudalism is the only way out for them.

The dead eyes capture how everyday people feel about this. Like performative empathy for the Ukrainians, but let’s keep putting them through the meat grinder to weaken Russia.

I love Ben Nortan’s monotone screaming.