log list 10/11/24
I ain't Ice Cube I don't have good days
listen
future - bustin out prod. zaytoven
https://on.soundcloud.com/CJ7cR76Pju5THT6h8
future - possessed prod. zaytoven
https://on.soundcloud.com/53XkgTPXSfFge2mS8
pennines - pilot holes
father figure - what the hell is on jonny’s head?
father figure - [b.y.o.k.] the rockland mann love story, pt. 3
IDontKnowJeffery - MNEIG feat. Glorilla, Marcus.901, NLE Choppa, & Juicy J prod. Cancer Creek
https://on.soundcloud.com/cVNMUBxF4hYtJAPF9
Young Nudy - Weed prod. Pierre Bourne
https://on.soundcloud.com/eT2r74eTBLaCBKap9
I be smokin good gas bitch grade A!!!
Gojira - L’Enfant Sauvage
Bermuda Yae - Eye prod. Pierre Bourne
https://on.soundcloud.com/DvquGbUMt1rQ9yaQ6
watch
Julian De Medeiros - Zizek: Why only an Atheist can believe
Zizek: The importance of doing nothing
The importance of doing nothing cont.
https://www.youtube.com/live/8vbXuK-ZYEw?si=7IOVoAxH61UdJqTp
“The contemplative life - the life that has for its aim not doing, but being, and not being merely, but becoming.” - Oscar Wilde
“It is far more difficult to talk about something than to do it.”
“It’s essentially an inversion of the adage that something can be simple in theory but difficult in practice, Oscar Wilde’s argument is that it is the other way around - that it is difficult in theory but very easy in practice.” - Julian De Medeiros
Stephen West - Philosophize This - Capitalism is dead. This is Technofeudalism. (Yanis Varoufakis)
https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-201-transcript-bkx3e-37rkx-bpl83-ysc9b-kkg62
“to be someone controlling the means of production…is NOW what makes you a member of the ruling class in this new capitalist world.” - Stephen West
“One last important thing to note here that we have to remember about capitalism, that distinguishes it from the feudal system…Yanis Varoufakis says along with this change in terms of how you hold the most power: there are two main characteristics of capitalism…that are always in capitalism. Those are: markets on the one hand. And profits on the other. No matter what kind of capitalist society you live in…Markets and Profits are going to be two PILLARS that MAKE the entire setup possible.
But he says to CONTRAST that reality… with the TYPE of situation we’re ACTUALLY living in today: one example the he likes to use to show all the differences here…is to CONSIDER what happens whenever you BUY something off of Amazon.
Because as he says when you enter Amazon.com…you are exiting capitalism. You are entering INTO a NEW sort of place, where markets…no longer exist.
Sure, Amazon may LOOK like a market on the surface, but what it REALLY is is a digital platform, where an algorithm is CONNECTING buyers and sellers. And there’s a BIG DIFFERENCE there between those two things.
The FIRST indicator that this isn’t an actual market should be…that there’s ONE GUY, that essentially owns ALL of it. Some guy named Jeff, Yanis says. Jeff Bezos.
See in TRADITIONAL capitalism… markets… are about people coming together, in a competitive environment, engaging in VOLUNTARY exchanges, for the sake of mutual benefit. THOSE are the conditions that are necessary… for a MARKET to perform the functions of a MARKET.
But that’s NOT ACTUALLY what Amazon.com IS or even ASPIRES to be in THEORY. This guy Jeff, Yanis says… doesn’t MANUFACTURE all the stuff he sells on his website. He doesn’t have any INTEREST in making all the products that get sold like a traditional capitalist: HIS goal…is to use his algorithm he’s developed…to CONNECT sellers, to buyers… and then to take a FEE for USING his algorithm… as payment. Sometimes up to 40% depending on how targeted the algorithm was in connecting the customer to the business.” - Stephen West
“The GENERAL idea is this: that in TECHNOFEUDALISM…to OWN the means of production anymore…is NOT the way you seize the most power in the world. Because as HE says: EVEN the people that OWN the means of production in our NEW world…are often BEHOLDEN to the people that own the means of behavioral modification. And THAT… is the NEW form of power that DEFINES technofeudalism. To BE part of the NEW ruling class of CLOUD CAPITALISTS…is to OWN the MEANS of behavior modification, so that you can then ENDLESSLY charge RENT, and SKIM FEES off of the top of the people that actually PRODUCE things in the world. And the reality is: that with each day that passes…a greater and greater percentage of commerce and the resources in the world around us are under the CONTROL…of this new CLASS that’s emerged, of Cloud Capitalists.
So, just to clarify: those TWO PILLARS of capitalism that were markets and profits...are gone now. MARKETS in this new world have been replaced by digital platforms. And PROFITS and innovation have been replaced by RENTAL FEES and the MASS printing of MONEY at the level of the central banks.” - Stephen West