I'm on the Sea Peoples Diet. I see peoples, I eat peoples. CushVlog 07.31.20

I'm on the Sea Peoples Diet. I see peoples, I eat peoples. transcript.

{On nihilism} As I said that's not a thing, there's no such thing as nihilism. Even if you say: “fuck it I'm going to pursue my own pleasure”, that's not nihilism that's capitalism. That's what we're all doing. You can call it nihilistic in a long term, because it leads to social and ecological collapse and is predicated on horrific exploitation, but you sure as hell can't say that it's not some sort of a value system. It's just that you've enthroned hedonism and I think the way to push back on that and the way that it has to be pushed back on is to point out that our desires are not our own.

The idea that you're operating from what you see as your self-interest, the way that libertarians talk about it, that that is somehow intrinsic to you, that that's something that is generated by your spirit and that's not entirely socially constructed, is a fantasy that undergirds a lot of the most pernicious and harmful social dynamics we have.

So, I would say anybody's like: “yeah fuck it I'm a nihilist”, like no you're not. You're either letting the branded late capitalist machinery tell you what you want or even or if you're self-consciously, like if you're being self-consciously trad or something in opposition to that, you're still letting it control you. You're still you're still operating in a reactionary framework to a hegemonic culture of personal pleasure.

What needs to be done is, I think what people need to do more than anything, is interrogate their desires. Interrogate what it is they think they want, why they want it and I think you'll find that a lot of the stuff that feels like it's at the center of your being is really compensatory, it's compensating.

It's cope, as kids say today and that, you know real, value comes from a rewarding social engagement. And I think that's what the grill pill

(which by this point I'm already sick of and I wish I hadn't even fucking coined the term like everything on the internet, it just gets turned into a stupid phrase and a collection of symbols and to be either embraced or denied and then turned into a whole weird thing that eventually loses all control, that loses all relationship to whatever it was originally trying to talk about)

It's just like the logging off is the first step of a process that hopefully reintegrates you into a social value system that replaces that libidinal personal indulgence urge that frees you or leads you into a process that could lead you to be freed. Or at least significantly enchained, unencumbered by that nihilistic self-centeredness. Because the only way that you can really defeat ego orientation and self-indulgence as your driver, is by having something else that has value to it. And that comes from sort of offloading your ego onto the people around you.

Offloading that sense of value away from your illusory sense of personal identity towards a larger and larger social organ that you are part of and that your actions support, you know, creates reinforcing cycles of ritualized and unstructured social life that provide meaning intrinsically. The meaning arrives arises from the interaction.

I have not watched the new perry mason show, because the idea of a dark perry mason reboot is the kind of thing that bums me out about television and makes me not want to ever watch another!