14 Name: Anonymous 2026-03-23 15:32
Quoted by: >>15
just asking you to consider rotting as active strategy rather than passive submissionYou're right to point out that NEETs aren't passive and there's a range of stances people take in relation to power, resistance takes the cake but we forget about refusal, feigning compliance and slacking off. I would only say two things. Firstly, should we really see rotting as a good strategy? Second, submission is hardly passive. When you submit to an authority, you carry out behaviors to demonstrate compliance, so that's not passivity.
I hardly think that Marx hates laborWhat I was trying to get at is that Marx seems to hate the environment. I think he's ambivalent and contradictory. On the one hand, he valorizes labor because labor will free us from the terrible constraints the environment imposes on humans. We can evolve from primitive tribes to a world of free individuals through labor. On the one hand, he hates capitalism for its cruelty, on the other hand Marx the theorist looks at capitalism with the eyes of a Darwinist, its a dying system that's preventing us from evolving further and there's no reason to feel morally incensed by it. Marx is a contradictory person but the consequence of his thought is a hatred of the non-human environment, or at least that's a potential in his work anyway. Also, I'm not a Marxist and don't care about dialectics.
you are still thinking in a dialectical Marxist framework where "consumerist values" must be directly opposed by their dialectical opposite and then subsumedWell we agree here. I don't think you can push back against power like this without entrenching it. The world is too contaminated.
read some batailleI haven't gotten around to it yet. I don't really like what I've seen from Bataille and his followers but I can't really judge without reading him.
It's pretty antisemitic to imply that n0 is jewish just because of that giant schnozz he has