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The entire album Symbol by Susumu Yokota might hit the right nerve, though it’s heavier on the dreamlike side and doesn’t have lyrics. I use it for driving, writing, anything that needs a kind of hypnotized but functional state of mind.
It’s probably worse living with chuds but the libs I live with are, of course, insufferable right now and I must ventpost for the sake of my sanity.
I can tell they respect my opinion, and they aren’t idiots, but at this moment it means they want to hear me echo their enthusiasm and when I don’t they are upset with me. And I’ll admit it does drive me nuts to see them march around as the self-appointed warriors of Good and Reasonable Opinions while also having a huge Gaza-shaped blind spot. I’ll admit it’s probably not easy to force oneself to think soberly when the smell of victory is in the air but I think they can detect how appalled I am to see them just handwave away an ongoing genocide. I guess I can just hope that maybe the reason they keep probing me about it is because they feel that contradiction and they’re hoping to discover a way to resolve it without having to admit they’re being immature (ironic because they are older than I am)
Damn I have watched the furry community grow on the internet since the days of the cringe flame wars and sensational pop interviews, they have come so far, brings a tear to the eye
Naked mole rats are considered an example of a truly “eusocial” mammal analogue to ants. More evidence for the idea that social behavior/societal grouping, once established in a species, characterizes it more potently than just about anything else in its genetic history. Chimps might be our closest genetic relatives, but the way we live and think is probably much more similar to these guys.
Yeah the real issue in a way is that there’s just so much evidence of evolution happening that it’s hard to find a single shared pattern to study
Sometimes ants can’t smell ants either and you get supercolonies
Unto Others has a great section about this. In a bunch of studied tribes who live generally pre-industrial lifestyles, the anthropologists were interested in how they “organize” big projects like building a house, and when they watched them, wondered what made them so willing to just do it.
Long story short, they saw how the kids watched them and subsequently “played” at doing things like building houses, carrying things together, etc. They essentially concluded that the “work” they did was understood more like play–that without any coercion to labor beyond meeting their needs, they were surprisingly eager to do that boring stuff because they made it into the day’s activity rather than grinding “work.”
TL;DR unalienated labor schniff and so on
Nobody goes nutting any more huh
Aussie magpies are ridiculously smart, love them as an example of convergent evolution since they are not corvids but rather songbirds that have evolved to be more crow-like to fill a similar niche to corvids
Maybe I’ll just have to make it a personal project to be nice when I’m old
This will probably involve submitting myself to the expertise of the young so I hope the 20 year olds when I’m 60 aren’t cannibal water raiders or nazis
Yeah I agree, I phrased it bluntly but it’s just scary to think that whatever radiation in the psychic atmosphere of places like the US and Israel nurses fascism is the same atmosphere I live in. I don’t really fear becoming truly reactionary but it feels like the moment I let my guard down and stop squinting I’ll get misled into someone getting dehumanized. I guess I want to believe there’s some kind of set of explanations for why societies turn so cruel so that treatment can begin, like with lead or microplastics.
I’m stuck here too on a sort of moral ledge with the idea that some people are just bad on an essential level behind me, and with the ocean of “people are products of their societies and you are surrounded by twisted victims while also being one of them” in front of me.
I am not sure I have the emotional constitution to face the ocean and try to understand it tbh, and it frightens me even more to think of getting lost in there and being wrong, rendering all that effort to understand some better nature of my species wasted on those who would spit my faith in them back at me anyway.
I always gotta hold my tongue around old people man
I hope it’s possible to be a generous and thoughtful old person, I don’t want to turn reactionary when I hit 60
And of course it has been pointed out a billion times I’m sure but the hypocrisy of white Australians yelling at refugees to leave “their” country is staggering
I know everyone understands how much Bill Maher sucks at this point but seriously Bill Maher fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuccccccckkkkkkkksssssssssssss he’s so fucking annnnoooyyyiiinngggggg I hate Bill Maher soooooooooooooooo muuuuccccchhhhhh I cannot believe I told friends to watch Religulous when I was younger MY FUCKING GOD HE IS THE WORST
Is there some kind of funky socioeconomic interaction I’m not aware of and am misinformed about, or is Australia terrifyingly and publically hostile to immigrants? And I don’t just mean the familiar sort of reactionary “fuck off we’re full” shit
From what I can tell, the anti-immigration libs in Australia are saying that immigrants are being lured in by corporations to provide cheap labor which is driving down wages, and so their solution is to just…repel the immigrants? That does not seem to be addressing the root of the problem m8s
(Yes this is because I watched a Boy_Boy vid that had friendlyjordies in it and so I checked out said affable jordle’s vids)
Like the ONE THING I can maybe agree with is that I don’t want to see the delicate ecosystem of Australia get further developed to support expolitative businesses but thinking that immigrants is the problem seems like some classic USA hog thought
Studio Ghibli vibes
This is me with friends and honestly it’s an old product of self-hatred. I just assumed my interests and personality annoyed people so I just stopped initiating. Not saying it’s a good thing but it doesn’t necessarily spring from apathy or disinterest; when they don’t contact me for a while I just end up assuming they have got shit they are dealing with and I ought to give them space.
I talked with a researcher who bluntly called whiptails “a bunch of lesbos” and he wasn’t even being funny, they still sorta kinda have sex to stimulate egg production.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556411/
That study has a great diagram:
Observe the science man presiding over the lizards and their inscrutable hormones