Attempting to persuade your lower self by reason and arguments of why xyz is good or bad, right or wrong seems like a fruitless endeavor. Either reign it in or loose to it
Hardly anything which I came across social media I found to be useful and most of what I read on SM was forgotten after max. 24h, for me this vindicates McLuhans mantra, “the medium (not the content) is the message”, but what exactly does this medium (SM) carry as a message? Simulation of human relationships accompanied by swarm thinking and a plethora of other collective ills, instantaneous access to entertainment, never ending noise, feeling of accomplishment by posting something, feeling of being heard of being connected.
This connectedness in a atomistic society constitutes the real message, life and social relations chopped up and made ready for consumption.
Hahahah, think we won’t reach that low, Islam has some rather good “defensive mechanisms” against a bifurcated,dualistic understanding of the world.
You are all heartily welcome to discuss and challenge anything of interest under my pseudo-intellectual posts, I am not trying to have a conversation with myself akin to the propagandist or advertisement talk, that’s what X is for.
After the conquest of space now on the conquest of time, modern man has set his eyes upon, abstracting time, doing away with natural rhythms and rituals, conditioned by events occurring in nature, bc they are to suspicious, the Protestant pathos smells dangerous vestiges of pagan times and superstition in them.
Followed by the mechanization of time and circular mechano-organic time i.e (Bergsonian) time, all signs of a mind that views time as yet another resource to be managed, exchanged, invested in, an object/commodity to keep it short, this is where we are standing now time as a resource.
Tide changing ideas and elites of the future won’t arise from adult daycare centers.
„Power (or what takes its place) no longer believes in the university. It knows fundamentally that it is only a zone for the shelter and surveillance of a whole class of a certain age, it therefore has only to select - it will find its elite elsewhere, or by other means. “
Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra And Simulation
Consciousness is a gift not to be squandered away with screen time or any other useless activities.
All knowledge is self knowledge
You don't control the levers of production, by posting 50 tweets a day, you are being controlled.
Social Media is one of the production facilities of our new currency, data, better to stay silent and when posting than with intent, that’s also why I left X, too much senseless talking, also coming from people who know better, which I honestly find sad.
Agree, just one thing which I noticed very often when I see Gestell translated as the essence/being of Technology yet this doesn’t do justice to Heideggers use of the term, he said that it is the Wesen of Technology, and Wesen is rather hard to translate into English let alone with all the connotations Heidegger attached to the term, maybe this will be of interest.
University, as its original purpose has been distorted, i.e an institution facilitating the journey to becoming a free human being, and forth subsumed under the techno-capitalist logic, resembles the modern work space milieu, another technical milieu, in almost all its aspects, except that the units attending the courses, are yet not fully functionally operative. As this hijacking has reached completion, we can now tangibly verify this, for example in the social domain of university live, as I guess most of us have attended uni; below are four points Moore has observed, with regards to social relations in the modern workspace, just substitute work with college, and see how applicable it is to our contemporary social dynamics in tertiary education.
1.Technical requirements of their work: they must not develop into deep relationships.
2.They must be universal, meaning they must be fulfillable by any person, even someone new to the job or with other relationships outside of the work environment.
3.Relationships must be rational, as the entire technical work complex follows rational rules.
4. The relationships must be impersonal
The potency of consumption objects lies in their indeterminacy and indefiniteness, in the fact that they can be utilized in a variety of semiotic manipulations: „Thus the washing machine serves as an appliance and acts as an element of prestige, comfort, etc. It is strictly this latter field which is the field of consumption. All kinds of other objects may be substituted here for the washing machine as signifying element“1.
Symbols in these terms may be viewed as intelligible mater, a concept coined by Plotinus, being a pendant to the intelligible forms, intelligible mater is everything at the same time, in contrast to mater in the sensible world, where one form can substitute another, thus losing its self identity, something not possible for intelligible mater. Imagine it like a variable in math, for example x ranging over the domain of R, as a placeholder symbol our variable is encapsulated by the whole set of R, without ever losing its self identity, x is still x even though the concept (form) of a specific number may be attached to it. By analogy we can view this abstract system of production as a form-giving apparatus connected via signs who function as shape-shifting signifiers where the symbols of production never lose their self-identity, a functional one that is, e.g the washing machine still is a washing machine in its operations, but can be infused with various, potentially indefinite, meanings, hence show casing a great degree of potentia for semiotic manipulation.
1)The Consumer Society (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Jean Baudrillard
Hui’s works where exactly that for me, a bridge to gap the schism between philosophy and technology, definitely would recommend reading them.
Share this sentiment; especially the case when one stems from a philosophical background, where for a long time technology either was seen as something uninteresting or outright negative.
PS. To be honest, I still find it to be something semi-interesting, like sticking with philosophy and pure math more.
As discerning as Neo-Luddites may be in their analysis of the negative effects of modern technics, their strategy of survival always falls short, owing to the simple observation, that once a technic is brought forth, it can not be reversed, you then either damagecontrol or sublate it.
An ever greater share of jobs fulfills the function of UBI paired with spreadsheet GNP growth, people get employed to literally do nothing, take a look at the tertiary sector, the dumping ground of the economy, where all uselessness is transformed into advertisement for the system,
“ Yes there still exists an economy” “ Your work is essential to society ”
“ We can’t do without you”
People “working” in said sector are appeased by stable wages and relative comfort, which facilitate their consumption behavior; this ofc can’t go on for ever and then what?
Sorry was lagging behind 😅, got it now.
To be honest, without attacking your persona, you kind off went overboard with this one xeet about ribaa, still the point’s valid, the fiqh of pre-modern times can’t offer an alternative to the predominant financial system we have in place now, I mean we even fail to analyze it correctly. Yet I fear that the greater part of the readership wasn’t able to discern this small but important detail and pranced on the legality of your statement.