there's this emphasis on PEOPLE NEED TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE MAKING USEFUL THINGS OR ELSE THEIR LIVES WILL HAVE NO PURPOSE
like, people aren't their jobs dude
and like, job satisfaction has a lot more to do with how your coworkers are than to do with what you're actually doing
same
i dislike the notion that people are only worth something if they are 'useful to society' aka useful at upholding a capitalist system (though i just realized i misinterpreted your post, seeing as you're criticizing communism) but fuck you if you're trying to make any social changes, you're just a useless hippie
that isn't to say i really support communism, and also i know literally nothing about politics so take anything i say with a grain of salt
there's this emphasis on PEOPLE NEED TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE MAKING USEFUL THINGS OR ELSE THEIR LIVES WILL HAVE NO PURPOSE
like, people aren't their jobs dude
and like, job satisfaction has a lot more to do with how your coworkers are than to do with what you're actually doing
This is what I mean by stereotyping human behaviour and being framed in dated terms. People need to feel fulfilled and have a sense that they're doing something good, preferably for themselves and others, and making them work primarily for the benefit of a small number of superiors with relatively little recompense sort of acts contrary to this desire unless there's some kind of abstract carrot/stick thing going on to obfuscate the issue.
The problem is, as you said, people are not what they do, and how they seek fulfilment and purpose is more complicated than money. Now, part of this comes from the fact that the whole structure of society and industry is essentially geared to self-perpetuate, usually towards oppressive ends, but the fact of the matter is that unless we can do whatever we want then we will never entirely define ourselves by "what we do" in the labour/market sense if we have any real sense of internal value.
there's this emphasis on PEOPLE NEED TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE MAKING USEFUL THINGS OR ELSE THEIR LIVES WILL HAVE NO PURPOSE
like, people aren't their jobs dude
and like, job satisfaction has a lot more to do with how your coworkers are than to do with what you're actually doing
same
i dislike the notion that people are only worth something if they are 'useful to society' aka useful at upholding a capitalist system (though i just realized i misinterpreted your post, seeing as you're criticizing communism) but fuck you if you're trying to make any social changes, you're just a useless hippie
that isn't to say i really support communism, and also i know literally nothing about politics so take anything i say with a grain of salt
The beau is pretty left-leaning, but obviously not a Marxist.
I am of a similar persuasion, but more so, and honestly I think that both orthodox Marxism and late-stage capitalism have a serious "you are job! work for system!" problem inherent in their rhetoric and functions.
Well an ideal dismantling of the capitalist system would remove most of the "you are your career" mentality as a side effect, but I am not someone you speak to when you want practical solutions in the short or long term.
i wish society would put less emphasis on having leadership skills, because i have absolutely no charisma or intimidation skill and i'd really rather just follow someone's else's orders as long as they're sensible
and the thing is that this whole theory of alienation seems to be pretty key to "why capitalism is bad and how communism will make things better"
so like while i was going into this liking the endgoal of the communist utopia now that's looking like it doesn't have much to stand on
To be fair, Marx was trying to explain why he thought that the borderline slave labour (and actual slave labour) of factories and plantations in the Gilded Age was evil in lofty philosophical terms so as to justify it to the kind of people who would actually read his papers. The basic animus is, if you are made to do something that you don't want to do because someone with power over you says so, that's wrong. All the rest is either elaboration or Marx trying to shoehorn social justice ideas into his pet fields of macroeconomics and historiography.
punk is a racist, misogynistic and homophobic art form, a bland, manufactured form of suburban white boy rebellion and it was never anything else
Ehhhh... not really, no? But it has been whitewashed in retrospect, and the uglier parts of it have stayed around surprisingly long where people forget the positive parts of it.
Although The Sex Pistols were a manufactured group. But they also posed for Peter Christopherson in some alarmingly homoerotic situations and Lydon was a rabid reggae and art-prog fanboy, so...
John Lydon's best work was when he did "World Destruction" with Timezone and Afrika Bambaataa. This is simple fact.
also I can count on one hand punk bands that don't either sound like every other punk band or are actively harmful, many are both. I think punk is better for the genres it spawned (which I think are almost uniformly better) than anything it did itself.
Apparently Jocelyn is the one I use to talk about rock music now, idk.
There is some indication that the man has changed, but also plenty that he hasn't.
IDK, Eminem still gets held up as "the only good white rapper" (for whatever reason) and that affords him a much larger amount of media protection than someone in his position might otherwise get.
Notable white rappers tend to be assholes in general for whatever reason. Action Bronson is a dick too and Mac Miller used to be.
like actually write lyrics that are racist, homophobic, whatever. Either co- or overtly.
I'm exaggerating with the "on one hand" thing, but not by much. Especially not in my personal experience.
Ehhhhh...
Really now? And do we mean pervasively offensive or casually insulting or questionable on rare occasions?
Either or.
I'm well aware I'm biased against punk music and guitar music in general in the first place, but there's a lot of stuff out there that is either straight up something-ist or just boringly nihilistic. And I do consider "boringly nihilistic" to be actively harmful, yeah, not in the same way racist or sexist lyrics are, but it is.
why don't i ever see anything that talks about what a wife-beating, homophobic, woman hating asshole eminem is
You're not looking hard enough. I am serious. A lot of people hate his guts.
i know a lot of people that like him or that used to be like 'eminem is the only good rapper' and i'm just like. hmmmm. HMMMM. i wonder why that might be.
granted, i heard this in middle school and high school, but i also just got out of high school
I'm well aware I'm biased against punk music and guitar music in general in the first place, but there's a lot of stuff out there that is either straight up something-ist or just boringly nihilistic.
"Boringly nihilistic," yes, but the accusations of blanket "-ism"s is on the unfair side. It's sort of like pointing at rap and screaming about how misogynistic and materialistic it is, for comparison.
And mind you, I don't care for a lot of punk. I'm just sayin'.
This is even ignoring the fact that Eminem's rap style is hugely derivative of a couple other people (less popular, black, Redman in particular) and that a lot of his music is just not very good.
Dude can rap well, like, sometimes, but technical proficiency should logically only take you so far.
If we lived in a world free of racial and economic factors, I think Eminem and Immortal Technique would be about as famous.
Immortal Technique's music is not quite my thing but I have to respect a man that can rap extremely well in two different languages and also just builds shelters for the homeless as a side project.
But yeah, because I think it kind of got passed over: As asinine as punk could be as a genre and culture, I find the assertion that it was solely created by and for privileged cishet white boys disturbing for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that it lets the bigots who did and do exist within the culture win out in their conception of what punk was and is.
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so like while i was going into this liking the endgoal of the communist utopia now that's looking like it doesn't have much to stand on
BDSM-based society make it happen
also quite dangerous.
hella people telling me to stop it
it's a corporation
They still feel like they want to suck you into this sort of Disney bubble
i think about this track a lot