Chaos Marxism Primer - Principia Discordia

Chaos Marxism Primer
Dolores LaPicho
97. If capitalism isn't stopped, we're going all the way towards a
mediaeval-style Inquisition and the scholasticism and mental stasis that
goes with it.
98. You will never illuminate humanity as a whole until you shut
down the dark satanic mills which befoul the infosphere, and that will
only happen when the masses start taking up practical activities which
act as a countervirus to corporate ideology, at the same time the people
who power the mills of cultural pollution go on strike.
99. The Belief-Systems that will enable the changing of the rules of
the social game - a revolution, in other words - will have to deal with
issues of socio-political economy as fundamental to issues of personal
enlightenment and/or planetary survival and/or the future of the human
species. Individual enlightenment takes too long, and read the climate
news to know that the clock is ticking here.
100. You can, in fact, change others. It's called brainwashing and
hypnotism. On the other hand, you can persuade others that changing
themselves - via becoming part of a mass movement to change the world
- is a good idea. But you have to get close enough to the unwashed
reality-TV watching masses that you can actually learn what a realistic
first step towards this might be.
THE PAINKILLER OF THE MASSES
101. Consciousness and personality are performative rather than
essential.
102. In the modern era, in the countries rich in capital and
information, the biggest and most effective weapon in the armoury of
social reaction is persuading the oppressed to culturally identify with
their oppressors, and to experience other oppressed groups as culturally
alien, incomprehensible and threatening. This is most effectively done
through mass media which encourages the masses to experience the
world around them from the point of view of the ruling classes - or, more
precisely, from the point of view of the cultural-professional middle
classes who work for the ruling classes (analagous to how the priest in
the middle ages worked in the interests of the local lord, while of course
having their own identity and interests).
103. The masses are asleep because it is a rational survival strategy,
given their powerlessness in modern globalised capitalism, and given the
vast resources of the powerful devoted to the means of mass hypnosis.
104. Popular media culture is the unifying and justifying narrative of
world imperialism today, just like Christianity was in the 19th century.
The TVs are the churches of the 21st century in the "opiate of the
masses" sense, and idiots who think that harrassing Muslims is
somehow "progressive" should realise that they're facing the wrong
enemy.
105. Subcultures as lobster-traps for the inquiring mind existed long
before the internet, it's just now it's far easy for weirdos to form cliques
and for those cliques to become "target demographics".
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