Posted October 26, 2018
sadly I can't edit this post for a improved reading-comprehension anymore, because the signlimit still puts a noose around my neck.
I'd send you a redacted and proofread version via PM, mostly because I find this way too entertaining than I probably should, but I doubt you'd be interested in that.
Here's something I read recently that might be applicable to our current conundrum. It's from Zizek's book "Violence".
"What if, on the contrary, such blindness, such a violent exclusionary gesture of refuseing to see, such a disavowal of reality, such a fetishist attitude of 'I know very well that things are horrible in the Soviet Union, but I beleive none the less in the Soviet socialism' is the innermost constituent of every ethical stance"
He is writeing about people supporting the ideas brough forth in "soviet socialism", feeling rightous and ethically sound in supporting it, while also knowing full well of how many people were repressed and ultimatly killed by that same Soviet state.
You can apply this to everything, like, say, supporting this company based on the notion that they "are fans of pathfinder/hard games", disregarding the imidiate reality of this shoddy consumer-unfriendly mess of a release.
And yes, the man writes his whole books in that style. I kind of like it. Then again, I write as convoluted as him. Just with less knowledge and concern for the actual grammar.
Weak show, GoG. Weak show on that signlimit!
I'd send you a redacted and proofread version via PM, mostly because I find this way too entertaining than I probably should, but I doubt you'd be interested in that.
Here's something I read recently that might be applicable to our current conundrum. It's from Zizek's book "Violence".
"What if, on the contrary, such blindness, such a violent exclusionary gesture of refuseing to see, such a disavowal of reality, such a fetishist attitude of 'I know very well that things are horrible in the Soviet Union, but I beleive none the less in the Soviet socialism' is the innermost constituent of every ethical stance"
He is writeing about people supporting the ideas brough forth in "soviet socialism", feeling rightous and ethically sound in supporting it, while also knowing full well of how many people were repressed and ultimatly killed by that same Soviet state.
You can apply this to everything, like, say, supporting this company based on the notion that they "are fans of pathfinder/hard games", disregarding the imidiate reality of this shoddy consumer-unfriendly mess of a release.
And yes, the man writes his whole books in that style. I kind of like it. Then again, I write as convoluted as him. Just with less knowledge and concern for the actual grammar.
Weak show, GoG. Weak show on that signlimit!
Post edited October 26, 2018 by NeuerOrdner