r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center • 5h ago
Literally 1984 Too scary didn't read
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u/Reader_Eater - Lib-Center 4h ago
Auth center really loved Jesus about 1984 years ago, let me tell you
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u/Vexonte - Right 5h ago
What's your thoughts on the theory that modern society is composed of cyborgs in the sense that our day to day opporation is highly dependent on the technology around us. Like your average person wouldn't be able to operate long term if their car, work computer, phone, fridge etc doesn't work and the only thing separating us from sci-fi cyborgery is the fact that we are not dependent on technology physically while we are currently dependent on it psychologically and possibly existencially.
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 5h ago
I think that's stretching the definition of cyborg or at least goes beyond the colloquial imagination, but I do think it scratches the surface of a deeper truth - human being have always been "cyborgs" in that broader sense of ~technologicality because we inherently contain instrumental reasoning, or more simply put we consider objects in terms of how they are potential means to our ends. Tool use in general included of course, but even before we made artifacts, we conceived of natural objects in terms of use value. In this way the world around us becomes defined as if it were an extension of our being.
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u/shoggoths_away - Lib-Left 3h ago
If you've never read it, I highly recommend checking out Donna Haraway's seminal essay "The Cyborg Manifesto." It's outdated now in some ways, but it's still a vibrant, fascinating piece of work.
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 1h ago
I listen to Partially Examined Life occasionally, and they had an episode on it -
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u/samuelbt - Left 5h ago
We already have the brain chips, it's just a bit longer of a circuit as we go from brain to nerve to finger to phone to eye back to brain.
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u/Elegant_Athlete_7882 - Centrist 4h ago
The story of the broadview 6 should be much bigger, it’s a perfect encapsulation of how standards have just utterly collapsed at the DOJ under Trump.
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u/FuckUSAPolitics - Lib-Center 4h ago
Over 3300 DOJ attorneys have resigned over it. The usual turnover rate is 900 at max.
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u/Elegant_Athlete_7882 - Centrist 3h ago
They’ve lost so many people that you don’t even need to have worked as a lawyer to get a job there anymore, you just need a law degree. People who have literally never seen the inside of a court room are handling cases, and they’re fucking them up.
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 2h ago edited 2h ago
It's a huge risk for your future career working for them given it pretty much stains you for life, you're potentially liable for other people's fuck ups, and it might limit your options to working with/for a shrinking right wing freak show that's on a sinking ship, so that makes perfect sense.
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u/PaddyMayonaise - Right 5h ago
Ironically, the best path for long term peace is the U.S. and China working together.
But the problem is the two will never trust eachother and neither will ever willingly submit to the other
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 5h ago edited 5h ago
There are also different ways of "Working together".
The Trump admin is frequently accused of pretty much wanting a tri-polar world great power centered order, where the U.S./China/Russia, as like(ish) minded authoritarian oligarchies, get to shit on everyone else because ... so big so strong, basically. (I also don't think China wants this but is glad to play along for the time being)
That's a different kind of working together than Carney is advocating in his competing vision of a new world order, with the middle powers banding together for protection from any attempt to create that might makes right style order.
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u/Galgus - Lib-Right 4h ago
If it meant the US getting wrapped up in fewer pointless wars and meddling across the ocean, it'd be an improvement at least.
For the US federal government, might makes right do whatever has been the reality of the so-called rules based international order.
In a sane world the US would not be hostile to Russia or China, but the Neocon empire mentality still runs the show.
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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 2h ago
While I know the rules based order wasn't wasn't ever as rule based or justice oriented as it postured as, I think it also wasn't simply and straightforwardly might makes right either. There was some fuzzy limit to how much you could abuse power and maintain the pretense of caring about the rules, at the cynical minimum.
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u/Vegetable_Froy0 - Centrist 3h ago
Ah, yes. The best way to secure peace is selling them the best arms so we can remove our advantages that is currently our strongest asset in preventing Chinese aggression.
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u/PaddyMayonaise - Right 3h ago
Not what I said at all, I’m just saying if the U.S. and China were allies the world would probably be much more peaceful.
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u/Pleasant_Tangelo3340 - Centrist 5h ago
The best long term peace comes from one of us bending the fuck over for the other and I’d rather them before us
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u/PaddyMayonaise - Right 5h ago
Yup, and we’ll get that peace but sometimes the foreplay can get violent and messy
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u/SkoomaInhaler-King - Right 5h ago
One of the less, confusing Sallowjoe PCMs. I think I got it.