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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
knightofleo
knightofleo

Vienna Teng | The Hymn of Acxiom

somebody hears you; you know that inside
someone is learning the colors of all your moods, to
(say just the right thing and) show that you’re understood
here you’re known

leave your life open; you don’t have to hide
someone is gathering every crumb you drop, these
(mindless decisions and) moments you long forgot
keep them all

let our formulas find your soul
we’ll divine your artesian source (in your mind)
marshal feed and force (our machines will)
design you a perfect love, or (better still) a perfect lust
o how glorious, glorious: a brand new need is born

now we possess you; you’ll own that in time
now we will build you an endlessly upward world
(reach in your pocket) embrace you for all you’re worth

is that wrong?
isn’t this what you want?

amen

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philosophybits
philosophybits

“What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition.”

— Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism

quyotes
quyotes

The satisfaction that no longer comes from using the commodities produced in abundance is now sought through recognition of their value as commodities. Consumers are filled with religious fervor for the sovereign freedom of commodities whose use has become an end in itself. Waves of enthusiasm for particular products are propagated by all the communications media. A film sparks a fashion craze; a magazine publicizes night spots which in turn spin off different lines of products. The proliferation of faddish gadgets reflects the fact that as the mass of commodities becomes increasingly absurd, absurdity itself becomes a commodity. Trinkets such as key chains which come as free bonuses with the purchase of some luxury product, but which end up being traded back and forth as valued collectibles in their own right, reflect a mystical self-abandonment to commodity transcendence. Those who collect the trinkets that have been manufactured for the sole purpose of being collected are accumulating commodity indulgences—glorious tokens of the commodity’s real presence among the faithful. Reified people proudly display the proofs of their intimacy with the commodity. Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation. All this is useful for only one purpose: producing habitual submission.

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle