Mahirap pumili ng pinakamagandang UnEssay project sa unang araw. May dalawang project ang naglalaban sa isip ko - yung etnikong musika na nagkukwento tungkol sa dahas ng estado, at yung bidyo na ipinakita ang ibang danas ng paglalakad nang malayo sa siyudad. Sobrang husay!
Di mawawala ang bigat ng pakikinig sa danas ng mga naabuso. Ngunit kailangan silang pakinggan.
At sa pakikinig natin, sana'y malaman na walang nag-iisa sa pagpasan.
Capitalism creates and perpetuates systems of oppression that disadvantage women. Capitalism thrives on the patriarchy and its gendered artificial stratification of labor. If liberation of women from those systems is the goal of feminism, it must be anti-capitalist.
"By producing artefacts, humanity materializes its desires and intentions as well as its constructive and destructive power. In short, through technology it projects its sensible qualities onto materials."
And in its maximum incandescence... an instrument of humanity's suicide.
Still one of the most disturbing concepts in Hickman's X-Men is The Phalanx. In the far-future, humanity has shed most of what makes it human and its idea of transcendence is to be assimilated into a godlike techno-intelligence called The Phalanx.
Utopias are revolutionary in nature because they challenge the dominant rationality. But how do we ensure our utopias are emancipatory instead of totalizing? It's much like love.
Love teaches us to respect the other, while asserting our own needs. Love is an act of compromise.
I’m eating lab grown meat the second it’s mass market ready. It’s biologically identical to animal meat and will reduce suffering more than any technology in the history of our planet as long as enough people switch over from factory farmed meats.
“Let me get this straight, you can buy a burrito on an interest-free instalment plan?”
“That’s right, and we’re not even based in the Chipotle store.”
“So, you finance this by packaging the burrito instalment loans into Burrito CDO A, which has part of Burrito CDO B and both get put into Burrito CDO C?”
“Yeah. The original loans are backed by burritos. Chicke. Pork. Carne Asada. Whatever. But Burrito CDO C is a synthetic Burrito CDO. A CDO of Burrito CDOs.”
“Ok, let’s say we have an underlying pool of $10,000 in burritos. How much money could be out there betting on instalment loans and your synthetic burrito CDOs?”
“Probably $100,000,000.”
“C’mon! How much bigger is the market for burrito instalment loans than actual edible real-life cheesy burritos?”
“At least 100x.”
“That is fucking crazy.”
“No, it’s awesome.”