Post #4053904
2026-07-24 04:23 UTC
Do you think #ElonMusk respects "the light of consciousness"? or even plain ol' #life itself? "Humanity" to him is a thin smear of techno-elitists (and their various masters).
I was writing earlier about the great "Western" monomyth, their unifying story that explains why the Universe exists and what humans are supposed to do here. It's pertinent here because adherence to the monomyth is roughly equivalent to what the prevailing culture of the United States thinks of as being a good and civilized person. It's all the various tenets of Christofascist "patriotism" distilled into a single heroic fable whose nucleus is the Roman tale of Cincinnatus.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 04:26
Cincinnatus was a great inspiration to U.S. colonists and thus there's a city of Cincinnati and various orders and organizations consecrated to Cincinnatus. He was a legendary Roman farmer, esteemed from the Republic days, a great soldier who was called upon to save Rome from an invasion of some sort (or maybe just one of Rome's many many civil insurrections) so they drafted him as dictator, whence he did the ideal thing that everyone mimics now: he took absolute power for six months (the statutory period) and then went back to his farm. What a hero. I'm doing the Charles Foster Kane clap here. (cont'd)