tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35011209.post6006115942168246488..comments2023-04-23T12:45:31.897+12:00Comments on Chaos Marxism: There's a reason that pill was REDDoloras LaPichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406903235156602127noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35011209.post-13521540122659451802007-04-11T12:14:00.000+12:002007-04-11T12:14:00.000+12:00But I *do* know better, Neo. For example, I don't ...But I *do* know better, Neo. For example, I don't believe in "individuality".Doloras LaPichohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15406903235156602127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35011209.post-43101215351610894072007-04-09T16:28:00.000+12:002007-04-09T16:28:00.000+12:00Wow.Exceedingly good way to miss the point.Try tak...Wow.<BR/><BR/>Exceedingly good way to miss the point.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Try taking more time to sort through it. And watch the news sometime. <BR/><BR/>Oh, and the radio show's good, too. Mistaking individuality for a dream is the trouble - especially with people like you, who think you know so much better.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04849923994428675429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35011209.post-89808995281184178892007-04-09T12:53:00.000+12:002007-04-09T12:53:00.000+12:00Solipsism is also the end product of commodity fet...Solipsism is also the end product of commodity fetishism. The most important thing about lifestylism is that you don't actually have to build relationships with other people. All you need is the right consumer goods.Daphnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330782055052643699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35011209.post-83677982477037610832007-04-05T12:55:00.000+12:002007-04-05T12:55:00.000+12:00"Reality is subjective, not collective."Ugh. Does ..."Reality is subjective, not collective."<BR/><BR/>Ugh. Does this mean that I'm a figment in Neo's imagination?<BR/><BR/>I had something written in response to this post of yours, but it went down the wormhole of something-or-other, and I'm not going to exactly reconstruct what it was, but, let me tell you, it was pretty good. I know, the Matrix must be trying to keep me down.<BR/><BR/>Two questions come to me immediately.<BR/><BR/>The first is, why do people so elaborately defend solipsism? And solipsism seems to be the end product of individualism, a mythic individualism. The proliferation of Phil Dick-like narratives in film, expansive drug use (Americans take more drugs, legal and illegal, than the rest of the world combined), ontologically radical statecraft ("we create reality"), the general climate of paranoia engendered by the war on terror, the explosion of autism, even the growing popularity of magic--all manifestations of the hardening of the self. (Although the topic of magic is a tricky one; I think there is an orientation to magic which has been historically suppressed--or else erected specifically in order to create a spectacle of suppression as a dodge for the masses.)<BR/><BR/>The other question: What exactly are the limitations which can only be exceeded by the "individual," which fellows like this and many libertarians, for instance, are always arguing to abolish? And what kinds of behaviors are they advocating? Obviously, there is some of the language of "self-improvement" here. To exceed one's limitations could perhaps mean to run a faster mile, cook a better meal, lower one's cholesterol count, improve one's sales figures, etc. But in what context and for what purpose? And yet, I still don't think this kind of "self-improvement" is exactly what he's getting at.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com