One of the best lines in the game. I wonder how many people Disco Elysium brought to Marxism? The fight against Capital starts with knowing how it operates, where it’s going, where its weakspots are, and how to struggle against it, and that requires reading theory. I keep a “Read Theory, Darn It!” beginner reading list if anyone wants it, let me know if you have any questions.
I got chills when he said that line. Game wasn’t wrong.
That’s the one silver lining. My biggest fear is that things won’t get worse fast enough. Humans, being dumber than frogs, won’t jump out of a pot of boiling water if you raise the heat slowly enough. I can only hope that the next four years are so terrible that we learn our lesson and have it actually stick this time.
Fun fact: in the boiling frog experiment, the frogs were ‘pithed.’ Jam a stick in their skull and scramble their brain.
Frog spinal cords have a lot of reflexes. They’ll use one leg to wipe a painful stimulus off the other. They’ll jump. But they accommodate pretty quickly and won’t get excited enough to jump out of slowly warming water. Gotta have a brain for that.
Recounted here: https://archive.org/details/studiesfrombiol00martgoog/page/398/mode/2up
Original ref: Goltz, F. 1869. Beiträge zur Lehre von den Functionen der Nervencentren des Frosches. Berlin, 1869, p. 127, etc Which is actually online: https://ia801200.us.archive.org/15/items/b22344937/b22344937.pdf
Oh wow
the brainless frog, if allowed to rest in water the temperature of which is gradually raised, behaves wholly unlike the normal frog under the same circumstance
Damn I’m really happy they cleared that up! 1800s people were really something else
arent we ‘pithed’ too? distractions and brainwashing galore to turn us away from ourselves and the problems around us…
A lot of the repercussions if decisions made over the next four years won’t actually be felt for five or six years. And if the Democrats are actually elected AND allowed to take power in five years, they’ll both have to clean up the mess AND get blamed for causing it.
I think some people never learn, especially the people that have their heads so far up their own asses that they only hear the FOX propaganda shouting.
just because you know what’s coming, doesn’t make it any less horrible.
The point is that it is already happening.
The Syria video for those who have not yet seen it
I’m 90% sure that our ruling classes miscalculated our response to the election choices they let us have and 10% sure that they decided that accelerationism was in our best interests; it was closer to 50/50 before I read the post and watched this video.
it makes you sign in to see it hahaha
This reads like someone who hates their own country, thinks everything sucks and is hopeless, and just wants to burn it all down.
I’m okay if I still hold a goal of America being better than that. The fact that it can’t meet that goal now for years to come doesn’t change the goal itself.
This reads like someone who hates their own country, thinks everything sucks and is hopeless
I don’t get that impression. I see someone who doesn’t like how their country runs, and understands the way its run is systematically harmful and ineffective. There’s a huge difference between politically critiquing a country and being a hateful nihilist!
I’m okay if I still hold a goal of America being better than that.
I think they do too. It just might not be an America as we know it - the problems go far deeper than who is in power. America wasn’t good under Obama, they just hid away the horrible parts very well.
Assuming you’re liberal, my god this sounds straight out of the republican “stupid things to say when someone doesn’t fellate America” playbook.
Anyone attempting to claim that humans are inherently humane has not met many humans.
In capitalism there is every incentive to be cruel to other people. Most people probably feel horrible when seeing a homeless person on the street. We want to help them but we are told that helping them is bad, because they want to be homeless and if we give money they’ll just ‘waste it’. That’s not a normal human reaction, that’s learned behaviour.
Those specific cases are learned behaviour, but general purpose cruelty and theft is something that’s been around longer than capitalism has, and has to be unlearned as kids, not learned.
It’s true that cruelty has been around for longer than capitalism; it’s untrue, though, that it has to be “unlearned”. Every experiment (that I’ve learned about) demonstrated that even toddlers care about fairness, which (I would argue) is inherently opposed to cruelty
There is a difference between being Homo Sapiens and being human. We add standards to human.
