AllisonIsLivid

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posts from @AllisonIsLivid tagged #fuck capitalism

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ensures that all aspects of society become honed to a single virtue - non-committal profiteering.

In art, this manifests as a simplification of all forms of art as message, into art as concept. The more conceptually vague and formulaic the art becomes, the easier it is for the viewer to simply project what they want onto a generalized archetype production. Everything becomes more meaningless as people increasingly require escape over engagement. Thus the ideal artform for capitalism is something akin to a funko pop. The funko popping of music, of film, of video games, dance, character design, acting, animation, and illustration, etc. You see this in American "adult" animation, and in the way stories are allowed to be presented. It's all very similar, and without any edges that would imply it was made by artists rather than printed from a template.

Obviously art still exists. Okay. I'm not... fucking stupid? You know? But it's mere existence on the fringes of society are also actively being predated by the automation of plagiarism, and being stolen by robots to feed into a machine that turns the creative and expressive nature of art, and grinds it into a slimy grey slurry that tastes like "whatever you can imagine!" The mere existence of our experiences and expressions is being harvested to make that slurry, to feed into the mold of the Funko Pop Singularity. This is all happening because the people investing in art are convinced that art needs to be a trillion dollar business with zero overhead.



alyaza
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DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

Oh cool nice guess I'm going to be building Icecat without the stupid GNU plugins


AllisonIsLivid
@AllisonIsLivid

Because all of this stuff is so hard to understand the complexities of. So people can't even begin to understand the complexity of navigating around it. And for a lot of people, even with the time and awareness to start the process, it's not an easy thing to focus on. The task of relearning how to use computers from a coding standpoint, instead of a user standpoint, requires a lot of mental resources that people just don't have to spend. We're all just trying to survive in the most free and civilized countries on Earth, you know?

There's got to be a way to bridge the gaps between the people trapped in the tech hellscape, and the people fighting against it, no different than there has to be a way to bridge those between the downtrodden and those fighting against oppression in their communities. This battle is, and must be, a component of the fight against tyranny and evil in the modern world. Capitalism, in all it's forms, is the face of that modern evil.