@cyb3rm0shp1t@social.xenofem.me
Post #4065891
2026-07-22 15:42 UTC
@winterklaus@social.xenofem.me im not sure that anyone has a defined blueprint for resisting the allure of the spectacular society, though, especially for people whose quality of life drops dramatically the less spectacle they participate in (down from an already low quality of life compared to the average.) i dont think the path forward looks like a refusal to accept and participate in the fundamental drivers and rules of society. i think if we make ourselves meaningless, if we refuse to appear meaningful, we'll continue to be treated as such forever, and we'll be the ones who suffer most from it
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@winterklaus@social.xenofem.me 2026-07-22 16:37
@cyb3rm0shp1t@social.xenofem.me it's just simply not true that refusing to abide by this bullshit amounts to an unworkable divestment from society. it's falsehoods and truisms that present themselves as utterly necessary. I'm not even saying to so nobly refuse service in favour of some non-extant alternative. I am in favour of approaching appearances constructively for pragmatic means - it's true that it has plenty of benefits in this world. that needn't come with a total submission to the ideological assumptions that go with it. It's a false kind of master morality, seizing a constrained and necessarily limited kind of power or value