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  • Imagine grocery shopping.

    When you started it was just a place where you paid for food. There were two near you. One with a kind of lackluster produce department but really good prices, and the bourgoise grocery store that only sold small overpriced portions with a great produce department. Plus the grocery section at wal mart, which is the grocery section at wal-mart

    Over the past decade things have started to change. More cameras, security guards, etc. Prices have gone up a ton. That sucks.

    At some point you noticed some items were replaced with weird replicas. Wax fruit, sugar water instead of pasta sauce, that kind of thing. You got your kid their favorite kind of apples, and they were fucking wax. You paid full price, too.

    Then they started putting everything behind glass. Including the fruit. You cant check if that melon’s any good now. They replaced the checkers. You gotta do that yourself. There are secret policemen wandering the aisles. There arent any more employees, so getting anything behind glass takes about an hour. Shopping is an all day affair now.

    Your best friend went shopping yesterday and youre pretty sure theyre not the same thing that came back. You dont know if this is a pod person or mind controll or your friend is just gone, but this thing keeps trying to get you to ingest this weird smelling pink slop. It got your kid. Your kid got… Replaced you guess. You hope. They want you to drink it too.

    Anyway, this has nothing to do with google. Just a cool srory thats not about anything.

    Sucks killing silicon valley pod dwellers wouldnt fix any of this.


  • Okay so a real reply if weve still got an audience:

    Notice how you attack me for being both ‘over simplified’ and ‘florid’ in this thread? You need two things. The first is to defend the status quo. The second is to feel edgy transgressive and clever.

    And youre just doing that with ideas you misunderstand so badly i cant even bring myself to correct you on. Youre not applying logic; youre just rationalizing.

    Things are sometimes simple though. Violence indeed bad. Best avoided. Not a good thing. Youve clearly lived a very sheltered life and violence to you is just an abstraction. Youve never experienced the world so its really easy to imagine its all as flat and consequence free as your abstractions.








  • I think systems based on violence are bad, because i think violence is bad. Because theyre systems of violence, i do not think theres a way to be rid of them short of violence, but i think avoiding systematizing that violence minimizes the collateral harms.

    I dont think murder being illegal has saved more lives than it has cost. I will not elaborate upon my ecidence, but it is from places squalid and opulent, decadent and visceral. The light it casts you in makes you look like a violent selfish child willing to kill–by proxy only, of course– to not have to consider the violence that is every calorie of sustenance to them.