@1SMi_ You take time off work, save up the money, buy the visa, buy the tickets, fly in from Algeria or Austria, and these guys decide they aren't going to try and play the game only to be spanked out of the tournament in the next round anyway. Unforgivable.
@VukTheBloody@guilherme94jose To it being a poisonous hyperstition this is much more true now than it was when he wrote it. The music at DMZ was being played on pirate radio for free and sold directly through community record stores. Sometimes the now king of England would give people grants to make it.
@VukTheBloody@guilherme94jose I agree, but Fisher's "music stopped evolving in the 80s" neatly coincides with his own peak raving, free dopamine era and "new sounding music can no longer be produced" is hyperstitionally poisonous to young people (and wrong).
@VukTheBloody@guilherme94jose *15. Dopaminergic decline isn't armchair psycho analysis.
"depression amongst the young is normal..." I used to see 40yo Fisher at the DMZ raves he writes about here (essay on JD). A depressing image, more so because he wrote this about it. Poor bloke.
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@VukTheBloody@guilherme94jose Fishers critique of music was a socializing of his own despair by refraining his own dopaminergic decline as a fault of the culture. If that's the point being made then yes it's what I think.
@benjamin_horne@ezraklein Important that this take on secret lairs is coming from a fictional character who set up a hidden network to recruit his daughters teenage friends into sex work at his lair, including the doomed daughter of his demon possessed lawyer and inadvertently his own daughter.