#zeitgeist politics

[bookshelf-in-progress]

It turns out that I never research because it makes me think the details are the point instead of the story.

The story is the point! It doesn't matter if I don't have an entire world with all its history and cultural and political customs realistically fleshed out! Focus on the story and fill in the details later!

[beneaththebloodylake]

nah but thinking about yuumori and victorian politics though like marx was also around that time vaugely, what if instead of london/durham, the moriartys couldve been based in manchester and marx couldve been a character. william james moriarty and karl marx besties

[ikemenomegas]

ugh, you know you're getting older when you tell your mother you have a preferred newspaper

[acdind]

New Culture in Decline!

Peter Joseph has a new episode of his series Culture in Decline out! I haven't watched it yet but, I will after work. In the mean time, have you guys checked the show out before?

Episode #1 "What Democracy?"

It's a bit dated and, his humor is dry but, I love it. I'll be catching up on them later as well and writing a little piece about each episode. Who is up for a watch party?!

Culture in Decline Website

Culture in Decline YouTube Channel

[magicallyimprobable]

These are good points. A lot of the media falls victim to middle ground fallacy a lot of the time, and those aiming to hide or mangle the truth will use it to a high effect - they tell outrageous lies so either the media or the people will think that the truth lies somewhere in the middle - even if these people are being untruthful, surely they can't be lying about everything and the other side must be lying too!

This is not just American politics though. This is politics everywhere, the rise of the far right in the western world depends on acting like this and the media falls for it. We have two big ongoing wars, where the west has decided not to believe Russia anymore when they feed absolute gibberish to anyone listening, while simultaneously we are collectively still listening to the lies from the state of Israel (surely they're no Russia, right!) and giving them the benefit of the doubt.

When someone repeatedly lies, and does so to do awful things or keep doing awful things, we should not give them the benefit of the doubt. We should not even repeat their lies, but instead report what they're actually doing and aiming for instead.

In the US it's the conservatists and orange people doing everything they can to destroy the justice system and libraries and trans rights and make everything even worse than it was while saying they're saving someone. Here in Finland it's the government dismantling worker rights, while taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich and cities giving less and less money to schools and libraries, while everyone's just claiming we can't afford basic welfare anymore. In Israel it's the state killing every Palestinian indiscriminately while claiming they're trying to minimize civilian casualties, and bombing schools and hospitals and churches and apartments to rubble while saying they're not doing that since it's against their rules.

Don't listen to what they're saying, look at what they're doing.

[diewilderonja]

WEF Finally Tells the Truth About Covid

It Was a 'Test' of Our Obedience to Rapidly Forming New World Order

They wanted to know how many people would comply with a complete re-ordering of their lives based on no science at all, just random orders, some of which bordered on absurdity.

I have long said that Covid 19 was launched by design by a small number of people in the globalist predator class for one reason and one reason only — as a beta test for the coming technocratic new world order.

Now, we’ve got the World Economic Forum coming out and all but admitting that was exactly why the Covid-19 “pandemic” had to happen.

The WEF gleefully posted the following snippet to the “My Carbon” page of its website where they make a pitch for so-called smart cities, which is just another term for 15-minute cities.

The first of three “developments” that the WEF says must be in place before the world can evolve into its utopian vision of “smart and sustainable cities,” is compliance with restrictions on our freedom. It writes:

1. COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility – A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact-tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core of individual social responsibility.

They were testing us. That’s what Covid was all about. They wanted to see how many of us would give up our individual freedom and individual sovereignty by complying with a “new normal” that consisted of restrictions bordering on the absurd.

Why, for instance was it “safe” to shop at Lowe’s or Home Depot but unsafe to shop at a small business or attend church? Why was it OK to go to strip clubs in Michigan but you couldn’t buy seeds for a garden?

What the WEF is implying with its above statement is that in order to be “sustainable,” people and societies will need to be compliant with a new more authoritarian global order. Don’t ask questions. Don’t resort to logic. Just obey.

Would we be obedient in the face of idiotic new laws and regulations, like wearing face diapers to stop what was said to be an aerosolized virus, and standing six feet apart in public, and submitting to a never-before-used, unlicensed mRNA gene-based injection?

They said it was good for you, so roll up your sleeve. Don’t ask questions. If you did, you could lose your job and be treated as a societal outcast. Many people lost friends or even close family members to this monstrous “test” of our willingness to unquestioningly do what we’re told.

Nearly five years later, arguably the most powerful nonprofit public-private partnership in the world, the WEF, admits it was all a test of our wills and celebrates the fact that most of us failed the test (or passed with flying colors depending how you look at it).

They wanted to find out how many of us would prove our servitude to the lawless, fascistic beast system by complying with “unimaginable restrictions,” many of which were created out of thin air with absolutely no scientific evidence to back them up as contributing anything to public health.

The U.S. government’s top health bureaucrat, Dr. Anthony Fauci, admitted recently that there was no science behind his decision to require Americans to socially distance six feet apart.

They just wanted to see how many of us would prove our fealty to the “authorities,” people wearing white coats or suits and ties.

The beta test known as Covid-19 proved once again the validity of the The Milgram Experiment. This experiment was conducted in 1961-1962 by Yale University professor Stanley Milgram.

It showed that the overwhelming majority of Americans would obey a law or command that they knew was wrong if the order were to come from an official authority figure. An alarming 65 percent of Americans would reluctantly violate their own conscience and obey the order even if they knew it would result in the death of an innocent person.

From Wikipedia:

Beginning on August 7, 1961, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a “learner.” These fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real. The experiments found, unexpectedly, that a very high proportion of subjects would fully obey the instructions, with every participant going up to 300 volts, and 65% going up to the full 450 volts. Milgram first described his research in a 1963 article in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology[1].

In case the WEF decides to take down this damning link about Covid being a test of public compliance with medical tyranny, I’m inserting a screenshot of it below.

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[tilos-tagebuch]

Grünen-Dämmerung 🔥

Der Zeitgeist-Partei ist der Zeitgeist abhanden gekommen | Jens Berger | ein NachDenkSeiten-Podcast

Der gestrige Tag war ein Paukenschlag für die Grünen. Und damit ist weniger der Rücktritt des Parteivorstands rund um Ricarda Lang und Omid Nouripour gemeint.

Wie gestern Abend bekannt wurde, will offenbar auch der komplette Vorstand der Jugendorganisation Grüne Jugend nicht nur zurücktreten, sondern sogar geschlossen die Partei verlassen.

Die Grünen verlieren die Jugend. Schon bei den Landtagswahlen in Brandenburg zeigte sich, dass die einstige Nummer Eins bei den Jungwählern bei der Jugend nicht mehr zieht.

Doch die Probleme der Grünen sind grundlegender. Sie sind eine Zeitgeist-Partei, der der Zeitgeist abhandengekommen ist. Oder ist es zu früh für einen Abgesang?

Die hier veröffentlichten Podcasts zum Nachlesen & Download immer unter: 🎧 https://www.0815-info.news/Siteupdate.html

[suavehdelite]

The rich know their days are numbered on this earth. That's why they build their space ships and buy islands away from us. They know that for the last two hundred years and longer, they have been taking far more than their fair share. During 1801, the French knew that the rich had done irreparable damage(then Napoleon happened, so there are many ways this can go) to their society. All of us, whatever side we are on, are being played by the rich.

What are we gonna do about it? Keep fighting about the things they put in front of us?

the new normal that should have arised from the current covid pandemic was a fully vaccinated populus, masks as common usage, huge amounts of industry restructured for remote work, single payer healthcare, elimination of the landlord class and massive public health awareness

but the minute we approached any of that capitalism screeched on the brakes. this state will never be out for your interests.

[sspacegodd]

Everything's fine. Have a balloon.

[phantomrose96]

Tumblr can never be my main means of engaging in politics and it comes down almost entirely to Tumblr's pathological need to distill The Right Opinion:tm: from any complicated issue.

It's always the most important thing. Not because it helps solve the issue or helps the people impacted, but because The Right Opinion:tm: is a proxy for you, morally, as a person. And every issue needs to be broken into the language that sets the stances of Make You Good or Make You Bad.

And I don't mean this in any generic statement about echo chambers or virtue signaling. Those are separate but related concepts. What I'm talking about is how people are nervous about a topic until one doctrine is crafted which defines the Sports Team Color of our Sports Team, so we can be identified as being on the Us Sports Team, and absolutely not on the Them Sports Team. Because this issue is actually about you and the proxy for you as a person and how people should perceive you so, really, the sooner we figure out the Home Sports Team Colors the sooner you can stop feeling worried.

The moment something new happens is usually the first and last time you'll actually see a range of opinions on it. And some of that is fueled by misinformation! Some in bad faith! When dust settles and clarity is achieved, this helps combat those things, but it's also the moment when the Loudest and most Articulate voices craft the Zeitgeist Opinion and everyone comes to roost around it.

You get people on this site pissed off at AI models that can diagnose cancer from a research paper in 2019 because The Right Opinion is that AI is bad. If you even see a post trying to articulate good uses of AI, well that's someone wearing Packers colors at a Vikings home game, and if you wanna make a point in the "wrong" direction you better be damn articulate about it.

A well-defined set of actions are transphobic. Another set are actually not transphobic, and you'd be transphobic for thinking so. Are you trans and actually your lived experiences differ? Get articulate real fast or shut up. You might be able to eek an exception for yourself, but it's going to require a 10-paragraph post justifying your claim. If you're REALLY good at it though, you might be able to rewrite the Zeitgeist and now anyone who disagrees with you is transphobic. Teams switch uniform styles every now and then, after all.

And it's such a farce because so often it's not actually about the topic at hand. It's about why you should be allowed to be perceived as a good person while toeing outside the fringes of The Right Opinion, why you aren't actually quitting the faith or committing blasphemy or deserving of exile for going off the written word. Or if someone really IS trying to make it about the topic at hand, the ensuing slapfight in the comments needs to be about whether OP has sinned against the covenant.

It's not helpful.

[catominor]

anyway more republican art posting but. the characterization of republican art and the notions of personal appearance in that period make it so interesting to me. i think pliny said this when i was reading him talking about the ancestral imagines but he basically characterizes a 'decline' of art from the republican era to his time, essentially with art becoming less about showing the individual characteristics and personality of a person and more iconographic/about projecting things like wealth or power rather than capturing individual features. essentially he says portraits became more of a 'stereotype' which signalled what kind of person you were, rather than a portrait of your particular face. which i think, although i don't really know how right pliny was about his own time obviously, is definitely something which characterizes republican art in the cursory glance at roman art history i've taken; ie the focus on capturing idiosyncratic and individual portraits of people (even to the point of possibly exaggerating them, almost like a caricature) in order to capture almost something about their soul. i think this is why i find that era of portrait busts so alluring, and though there are also definitely imperial era ones which have the same idea of capturing an individual, the republican ones hit different imo

[eternally--mortal]

This is an AI rendering. The problem with AI renderings in costuming and in clothing design is that AI begins at a completely different place than actual designers: It doesn’t consider the materials necessary, or the time it would take to construct the project, or the structuring of the dress. Yes, it’s beautiful, but a good designer begins with a budget and works from a knowledge of fabrics and structure. If you asked someone to put together this dress, they would not only have to take the time to ‘reverse engineer’ how to do it, but they would have to start from scratch in figuring out whether it’s possible to simulate the colors and textures and layering while maintaining a structurally sound gown. They would have to compute the extra cost for the color work and addition of details.

Yes, it’s beautiful, and it’s likely that a reasonable construction plan could be formed for a dress like this, but the time and the money spent on such a dress would likely outweigh a shop or a consumer’s desire for the gown to be made as it was designed.

A lot of designers are very upset right now because posts like these are flooding our spaces on social media—to the point that non-designers who do not understand the job are claiming that Costumers and Designers will become ‘obsolete’ in the face of AI. This is particularly maddening when AI is being fed the works of humans and then constructing images that would require outrageous cost and work to re-design in a workable way and then construct.

It’s normal for designers to draw from each other and become inspired by existing works. There’s a reason why fashion designs aren’t copyrighted—it allows the industry to remain fluid and to base itself in a common cultural zeitgeist without unnecessary possession over a particular cut or pattern. In fact, you’re not likely to get in trouble for draping a Couture dress unless you try to pass it off as the work of the original Couture company—because the logo and the branding are copyrighted, and the design sketches are copyrighted, but the style and drape and cut of the dress itself is not copyrighted.

The problem with AI is that it doesn’t innovate in the way that humans do. We draw from the same sources and make something new and carefully considered and wearable and, most importantly, buildable within reason of the resources available to us. AI doesn’t do that. It re-mixes existing work without the human touch of newness. It doesn’t consider the ‘how’ of building. It doesn’t consider the expense or the people involved in the process of creating the dress. And, the faster a computer designs a dress, the faster work the ignorant consumer base is going to demand of the construction team.

Sewing is a specialized skill that takes a good eye, a knowledge of industry precedent, a knowledge of textiles, an awareness of timing and budget, and so much more. People are already overworked to the point of burnout in this industry. Please please please, do your research and familiarize yourself with the process so that you can better respect the artists involved. Yes, AI is beautiful—but it will never be human. And it’s already doing a great deal of harm to how people perceive the human parts of the design and construction portions of the industry.

[dynamicity-keysmash]

I think it's important to understand that the vast majority of voters do not spend much time thinking through their political decisions because it's simply not something that occupies much space in their minds. You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into, and it's extremely difficult to fight feelings with facts.

Now that the Democratic party's inner core is highly-educated cosmopolitan urbanites, it seems to have lost the ability to deal with that reality.

Most people do not feel like trump is a fascist, or that he wants to be a dictator. Most people do not feel like any of Biden's massive legislative/executive accomplishments improved their lives at all. Most people do not feel like Harris's platform would've actually gotten done or helped them. Most people feel like Trump ran a better economy and that it's Democrats' fault that inflation got so bad.

In an individualistic, selfish nation with one of the worst education systems in the industrialized world, a political party cannot win by serving up a charcuterie board of various poll-tested policies that it then tries to explain to people who could not care less and don't understand anyway. It needs to create an overwhelming feeling, a feeling that changes the minds of people who don't give a fuck about anything but themselves and their wallets. Trump found that overwhelming feeling. Through bravado, cruelty, and levity, he created this zeitgeist of blunt, confident grievance that countless prideful people who feel left behind by the economy could grab onto. This feeling inspired people far beyond his cult of enthusiastic fascists and self-identified bigots.

The country chose trump because Trump's brand, vibe, and message inspired compelling emotions in more people, especially in people who have no interest in civic engagement, don't follow the news, and have been given little understanding of government/economics by our failing education system.

This problem wasn't fully apparent in 2022 during the midterms, when more low-propensity voters stayed home and highly-educated, highly-engaged people made up more of the electorate.

[acdind]

Peter Joseph just released the trailer for the next installment of the Zeitgeist films and it looks incredible!

[girl-with-bones]

I want to add too,

Fascists are fascists. There is no debating with fascists. Fascists want power and control and the eradication of weirdness and queerness and individuality.

I will say it again. There is no debating with fascists.

If you find yourself speaking to a fascist, especially online, don't bother. Don't even try. Don't feed the trolls. The best you can do is dunk on them and make them look stupid so nobody else is fooled by their rhetoric.

But.

Those fascists are not the trans girl who believes in TMA/TME. Those fascists are not the trans guy who wants to talk about his own oppression. Those fascists are, by and large, not other queers.

It's very easy to find yourself in a bubble here, constantly reinforcing your own beliefs. But I promise you, you can talk to those people, if you want.

Not if you treat them like fascists, though. If everyone you disagree with is treated like an irredeemable idiot who you're only talking to to make look bad, you will get nothing done.

Because guess what? The trans girl who believes in TMA/TME also probably has some decent point about transmisogyny by itself.

The trans guy complaining about said trans girl maybe also has a point? However,

when we frame our ideas as arguments against someone, we build up walls that stop healthy conversation.

If you act like you hate me, I will not talk to you. But if you meet me where I am, I can do the same, and then we can actually have a discussion.

By all means, the people who want us all dead? Hate them. Fight against them with all your might.

But among our own community?

Fight for, not against.

LGBT in fighting is fucking dumb and I’m super tired of yall’s stupidity. The fascists who run the government do not care that you are “Not like the other queers”. The fascists do not care that you hates it when bisexual women are taking their straight boyfriends to pride. The fascists do not care that you are a gay person who hates trans people with a passion. The fascists do not care that you are a trans person who hates non-binary people with a passion. The fascists do not care that you are a queer person who bullies 12 year old kids on tik tok who use fox/foxself pronouns and identify as fox gender. Hating each other will not make the homophobes go away. I don’t care how many times you say “But these people in the community make everyone else in the community look bad.” Fascists think we are all the same they will not single any of us out just because some of us have the same opinions as the fascists/Alt right. They are not passing anti trans laws because some trans people are too loud and cringey they are doing it because they hate all trans people. They are not passing anti gay laws because some gay people are too loud and cringey they are doing it because they hate gay people. FASCISTS DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINIONS THEY WILL KILL YOU REGARDLESS! FASCISTS DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINION THEY WILL KILL YOU REGARDLESS! FASCISTS DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINION THEY WILL KILL YOU REGARDLESS! Do you understand me?