One of the failures of the Soviet Union is that they didn’t deprogram themselves. They defeated capitalism in the material plane, but they remained inside a capitalist consensus reality. Thus, they simply became capitalists.

I believe that a successful socialist revolution requires sorcerery. We must create a socialist multiverse using techniques of mysticism.

White and black aren’t the same. Just like cis and trans aren’t the same, and straight and gay aren’t the same. There’s a difference between punching up and punching down. There’s also a difference between insulting a group you aren’t part of, and criticising a culture you were born into. I think I have the right to criticise the environment I was raised in. And so do the people who have lived their lives being oppressed by that culture.

I submit that the only antidote to propaganda which is capable of curing whole societies, is the conscious manipulation of one’s own beliefs and perceptions. We must abandon the desire for objective reality, and instead become masters of our personal unrealities. Great responsibility can only be fulfilled with great power. We must become better than we are. We must take hold of the power of unreality for ourselves.

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most white people

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I think maybe your white fragility is having a negative impact on your literacy.

I come from a white family, and I enjoy the benefits of white privilege thanks to pale skin. I identify as white in terms of issues of racism and ancestry. But I have left white culture behind. After all, whiteness was invented by slave traders in the 1500s to justify slavery. In Europe, people identified with ethnic groups such as their nationality or religion. In Europe, there are massive racial tensions between Bulgarians, Serbs, Hungarians, Romani, Turks… But in the new world, all of the peoples of Europe (Except for arbitrary groups like Irish and Jewish) could unite as the singular WHITE RACE, defined in opposition to the black slaves and the native Americans. It was a fiction, dozens of different ethnicities ganging up together to beat the shit out of the new victims. Whiteness is inherently colonial, because whiteness was invented to justify colonisation.

I grew up in Australia, being taught to identify with the white colonial oppressor culture. But it didn’t work, I do not see Myself in the criminals who stole this continent for their king and queen. I have done what I can to decolonise My mind, and I continue to do so. It’s a process that will never end until all the world has said no to whiteness. Are you brave enough to leave whiteness behind? You have some great choices in front of you. You could rediscover the culture your ancestors had before whiteness was invented. Maybe you’re English, or German, or Dutch. Or you could help make something entirely new, while remembering and attempting to reconcile the past. Whiteness does not have to be your heart.

Cultures that use absolute direction are better at navigating and their people always know which way is North. The fact that so many white people don’t know which way they’re facing is, I think, the obvious gap in cultural knowledge.

Another big gap in western cultural technology is that most white people don’t practice any perception-altering mental techniques. Most of them don’t see a use for such techniques. But the lack of personal control over perception is a big reason for transphobia. When most white people see a “non-passing” trans person, they get upset about the social expectation to perceive a personal truth that they cannot perceive. Instead of just, using a mental technique to edit their perception of gender. White people have a learned helplessness with regards to their perceptions, and it leads to a lot of social conflict.

A big example in the news a couple years ago was when JK Rowling erroneously perceived Algerian boxing champion Imane Khelif as a man. Instead of just changing her perceptions, Rowling started a cyberbullying feud and got sued into shutting up. And Imane is cisgender! White people can be very entitled about changing the world to fit their perceptions, because they don’t know how to change their perceptions to improve the world.

Okay so we’ve all heard of the transgender ranch. Who’s gonna start a transgender castle‽

I want a castle

What if you learn to turn it on and off?

Yeah but what if it’s possible to neurologically train yourself out of that focusing behaviour?

I can confirm, I’m shortsighted and I have to wear glasses in VR or I can’t see.

What about the “of age” part?

Sure thing, here you go:

In 1926, the average worker had a wife at home to take care of chores. The average household worked 40 hours a week. Then, women entered the workforce. That’s great, but it caused some problems. Now the average household works 80 hours a week, and we have to spend most of our free time working on chores. It’s not sustainable.

In the past 100 years, work efficiency has improved massively thanks to automation and machines. But instead of working less, we’re working more. Think about supply and demand: when there’s too much of something available, it becomes worth less. Corporations don’t respect your time or your energy at work, because you’ve got twice as much competition in the labour market. They can replace you like that.

The rich are getting richer, and the workers are getting poorer, because we’re doing too much work. We need to go back to doing 40 hours a week per household, like we did 100 years ago. That’s why I’m pushing for a 20 hour full time workweek to fix the economy.

Minimum wage will be the same across the week, which means everyone gets paid twice as much per hour. But you only have to spend two and a half days a week at work. This means corporations will have to work harder to get your time. It means higher wages and salaries. It means less corporate waste, and less money for billionaires. It means you get a four day weekend to catch up on your chores, and actually make time for your hobbies. It means you get to relax, and the economy gets better for everyone.

In Australia, most windmills are water pumps.

I think Cypher’s desire for ignorance is his fatal flaw. In the end he dies because of it and accomplishes nothing of value with his life.

I don’t think Neo’s curiosity is a fatal flaw. I think it’s his greatest virtue.

That’s actually not a hypothetical. Dragon’s Dogma 2 has incredibly realistic cooking because the artists studied the way meat cooks in excruciating depth. That’s why I won’t buy Dragon’s Dogma 2. I don’t want to support that.

If the Machines say that the killing was a one-off and I have no reason to think that cows will be killed in the future, I’ll have a virtual steak.

That sounds like a lot of work. I just fucking do the research Myself instead of asking an incompetent machine I don’t trust.

I think human beings have evolved to see a fake reality, because true reality is too complex for our minds to process and simplifying it saves on resources.

I think the desire for reality is a trap that will make you vulnerable to all sorts of cognitive biases. I think the rich have learned to use the desire for reality against us. I think the only way to be free is to choose to create our own unreality. I think through mental techniques to reshape our beliefs, we can achieve the power to break out of the capitalist mind prison.

I’d rather have Neo’s powers and be able to dream up a better world for Myself and My loved ones.