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human sacrifice is straightforwardly widely used (but repressed) in value creation but it's abstracted hidden behind advertisements and network protocols, computer vision driven kamikaze drone energizing viscera shredded through the bid ask spread god bless technological progress
big part of why people don't like AI is that their identities are wrapped up in the content they consume and the kinds of people they consume content from
ex. ai influencers break BOTH parasocial imagined communities AND social consensus filtering for alienated subjects
and of course there's truth to this, right, people are not completely detached from reality, just prone to garden variety psychological defenses- the underlying realpolitik is that you notice your slow weed and reels managed decline is now deprived even of your imagined community
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Hey, you know that part of the roller coaster where you just barely start picking up speed after a long climb to the top, facing the ground
"ah" says the doctor, "it seems you are lacking the signifier for sexual difference. what you need is the phallus"
but doctor...
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scapegoat psychology (e.g. driving out the sin eater into the desert) was a very flawed accepted past solution, only the most temporary relief, worse than bloodletting. the cycle must repeat and the moment of purity is brief. seasonal, even






