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"I'll sell my inventions so everyone can be superheroes; everyone can be super!" - a guy who lies a lot
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Explanation: A lot of Internet People say that The Incredibles is objectivist (Ayn Rand's ideology) because the heroes fight against a revolutionary who wants to make everyone equal by giving people superpowers.
What they miss is that this "revolutionary" is a billionaire who made his fortune selling weapons to world governments under the table, and his only motivation for saying he'd sell his weapons is to make money and spite his enemy. There's no reason to think he would follow through, and selling powers doesn't mean everyone gets them. It means everyone with money gets them. Syndrome is proposing a world where rich people have super powers. That's just the plot of Vampire: The Masquerade.
Syndrome is co-opting leftist rhetoric to make himself look like a hero, while not actually understanding it, because he's not a leftist. He's a capitalist billionaire. And the Internet People who think this movie is bad because it praises hypercapitalist ideology... fell for the capitalist's rhetoric.
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OneHundredNinetySix rules a 32x32 grid - Day 72
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Fun Fish Fact Friday (rule)
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Coelacanth! I like this picture because it makes it look goofy. Coelacanths were thoguht to be extinct because the youngest fossil we had of one was 66 million years old, but in 1938 off the coast of South Africa, one was caught and identified.
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Björk album covers day 2: 9th place — Homogenic
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This is a challenging one to review. You take a glance at this cover, and your dopamine immediately surges from the music that starts playing in your head (pick one of the bangers you like). But let's set aside the sound and focus solely on what our eyes can see. The cover depicts Björk as a strange creature in what appears to be a Japanese empress outfit. I say creature because she's clearly not a human: look at her body structure, the shoulders, the neck, and the predatory alien eyes. That cover screams "weird", and the choice of colors, textures and patterns only emphasize that. But it is clearly designed that way. Björk mocks the formula when you put a sexy feminine, girl on the cover to attract an audience and boost sales. She followed it before, but here she finally cut ties with mainstream pop.
[Men] can be silly, fat, funny, intelligent, hardcore, sensual, all those different things, philosophical. But with women they always have to be feminine. Feminine, feminine. ... I just like to see women who can be characters and can be themselves.
So here she is, take it or leave it. Why do I rate the cover so low then? Isn't it genius and deserves strong 10? I'm trying to be honest with myself: I don't like it, really. Even if we leave out the questionable reference to Japanese culture, it is still repulsive and ugly. It is not beautiful; it is not even good. And to be honest, I also don't see any connections with the music behind it. The Homogenic album cover is bad on purpose, and giving it a high rating would be an insult to the very Björk's idea. So, 4/10.
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Ruleducation
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We've reached the second iteration. There isn't a lot separating us from the third iteration. And the material conditions were bad enough, at the latest, sometime between the first and the second iterations.
People know socialism exists. People are experiencing sufficiently bad material conditions that they want change.
People have picked up neoliberal ideas from living in a neoliberal society. These ideas give people a framework to process their material conditions so that they do not rise up in sufficient numbers. People need to learn that these ideas are part of an ideology designed to enrich the owner class at the expense of the worker class. Things will continue to get worse unless people understand that everyone needs to own their work.
This education is work that still needs to be done after hypothetically defeating the current fascist dictatorships and is probably part of what will be needed to defeat them.
I keep having this conversation with people and seeing the accelerationist line of reasoning, so I wanted to address it with a visual.
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Björk album covers review: 10th place — Utopia
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Disclaimer: this rating is totally subjective; if you disagree with me—I welcome you to the comments to express your point of view, as it equally matters
Let's start! Here Björk appears in the form of some kind of a huge ocean mollusk, the gorgeous underwater queen. She looks very confident and content; in her right hand she holds a flute demonstrating its six holes, which amazingly resonate with other two ones in her throat—serving as gills for her and another whimsical musical instrument for us. That strong attention to the flute is not accidental: Björk shows us what is the key to the record, what—along with dolphin and orca's sounds—sets the main tone of it, and what you must follow through to space out and enjoy the music... Returning to the cover itself, there are several important details emphasizing that she's exploring themes of being a woman and a mother. First, an interesting organ resembling woman's genitalia—Björk doesn't hide it and displays it right on her forehead, making a provocative gesture. Second, an embryo (it looks quite human-like or at least mammal-like, but i'm not a biologist) which is hiding in her collar. But what sadly breaks the vibe of the cover for me is Björk' hairstyle. It strongly associates with goth/emo subculture; i would imagine a tempting vamp lady having it, but not a sea empress. Moreover, it doesn't fit the sensual and ethereal ambient tones of the album.
In summary, this cover shows good attention to detail and gives a peek of what to expect from the music. But unfortunately it doesn't work for me as a single comprehensive piece of art. Score: 4/10
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OneHundredNinetySix rules a 32x32 grid - Day 71
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Nice collaboration! 👍👍
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OneHundredNinetySix rules a 32x32 grid - Day 7^2 + 0^2
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That is surely a happy number!
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