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Monday, June 11, 2018
American Psychosis
(This one isn’t to make any friends)
American Psychosis
A psychosis is a condition prescribed as a general disconnect from reality. Reality is not prescribed, nor is it dealt out. Reality simply is, and we live in it. Everyone has groups that they believe have a psychotic disconnect with reality. This is a feeble attempt to consolidate as shortly as possible and castrate any argument delved to superiority in the American field of accepted psychotic behaviors.
Material:
The strangest of American behaviors, the obsession in what people buy and do.
“The interest in how what your neighbor does can get you what you want to do, the fear that your toilet paper might rash your aunts cat, or the idea that your third table is the one that should go outside because it’s the newest.”
The culmination of stuff and processes to get more stuff without the desire to use them.
“If I work another eight hours I can get the T.V. I’ve always wanted but will never watch because I’m working an extra eight hours to get a new T.V. that I’ve always wanted.”
American Psychosis
A psychosis is a condition prescribed as a general disconnect from reality. Reality is not prescribed, nor is it dealt out. Reality simply is, and we live in it. Everyone has groups that they believe have a psychotic disconnect with reality. This is a feeble attempt to consolidate as shortly as possible and castrate any argument delved to superiority in the American field of accepted psychotic behaviors.
Material:
The strangest of American behaviors, the obsession in what people buy and do.
“The interest in how what your neighbor does can get you what you want to do, the fear that your toilet paper might rash your aunts cat, or the idea that your third table is the one that should go outside because it’s the newest.”
The culmination of stuff and processes to get more stuff without the desire to use them.
“If I work another eight hours I can get the T.V. I’ve always wanted but will never watch because I’m working an extra eight hours to get a new T.V. that I’ve always wanted.”
The desire for new versions of functional things I already
own, see above.
The need for things to be a part of something. (Apple anything and video games, I’m really not that witty.)
Sexual:
Simply put, the creation of an entire market and stage for the purposes of a singular act in American culture. Sexuality permeates every porous layer of society and clings to all its low hanging fruit. Humans are naturally sexual, so the practice of sexualized material hits base natures. Ads feed on passive needs and people thrive on visible and physical superiority and inferiority. The result is a venture that produces nothing but cosmetic products, cellulose, hypersexuality, and body dysmorphia.
Society satires its own sexual obsession. Children’s movies, T.V. Ads, and even food is ironically sexualized. The act is a wasted venture. The child still wears a bra, there is a movie with food that fucks each other, and the T.V. ads have become softcore porn. The practice has become functionally a part of daily society and is no longer sexual.
Intellectual, Ideological, Belief, and Identarian
Americans are naturally contrarian. There needs to be a corner that they fit into that makes them just like everyone else but far enough from anyone else that the can be liked by all the groups. Hence the make your own belief system, political affiliation, lifestyle – lifestyle that people have created. The next time you are engaged in a conversation about what someone does or believes just ask them what they “are”. The most common answer will be political. Them ask them what it means to “be” an “x”. You’ll get a non-descript answer with qualifiers for the bad “xs”, with the occasional I’m one of the bad “xs” from the rebellious. The act of belonging to any of said groups requires no involvement, little action, and lots of talking about being involved in said groupings. Two groupings for examples from both lifestyle and belief systems.
The American conservative. Active enough to be involved in local politics and elect a president. Inactive enough that with a house majority and all three branches of government they can’t enact major political change. Schools still feed conservative children and in most states there’s still property tax. A conservative has an almost pathological hatred of power with a proactive hand on its reigns. There isn’t the idea of conserving power of governance, only of being part of something called conservative that controls it.
LGBTQA+ (not really sure past there anymore)
The above listed communities have enacted major political change/agency past the point of anyone’s wildest conception. Trans-rights, same sex marriage, and even a gay couple on T.V. Not straight, not women, not white has become a strange social commodity. Visibility was never the problem, it was always acceptance and the way to apparently achieve it in the 21st century is through redundancy and TV campaigns and not through dialectic and debate. “Loud and proud” has become a moniker that both defines and amuses. For one a caricature and the other a symbol, the former having dramatically more power. To the point that communities cannibalize each other for further agency and attention.
The need for things to be a part of something. (Apple anything and video games, I’m really not that witty.)
Sexual:
Simply put, the creation of an entire market and stage for the purposes of a singular act in American culture. Sexuality permeates every porous layer of society and clings to all its low hanging fruit. Humans are naturally sexual, so the practice of sexualized material hits base natures. Ads feed on passive needs and people thrive on visible and physical superiority and inferiority. The result is a venture that produces nothing but cosmetic products, cellulose, hypersexuality, and body dysmorphia.
Society satires its own sexual obsession. Children’s movies, T.V. Ads, and even food is ironically sexualized. The act is a wasted venture. The child still wears a bra, there is a movie with food that fucks each other, and the T.V. ads have become softcore porn. The practice has become functionally a part of daily society and is no longer sexual.
Intellectual, Ideological, Belief, and Identarian
Americans are naturally contrarian. There needs to be a corner that they fit into that makes them just like everyone else but far enough from anyone else that the can be liked by all the groups. Hence the make your own belief system, political affiliation, lifestyle – lifestyle that people have created. The next time you are engaged in a conversation about what someone does or believes just ask them what they “are”. The most common answer will be political. Them ask them what it means to “be” an “x”. You’ll get a non-descript answer with qualifiers for the bad “xs”, with the occasional I’m one of the bad “xs” from the rebellious. The act of belonging to any of said groups requires no involvement, little action, and lots of talking about being involved in said groupings. Two groupings for examples from both lifestyle and belief systems.
The American conservative. Active enough to be involved in local politics and elect a president. Inactive enough that with a house majority and all three branches of government they can’t enact major political change. Schools still feed conservative children and in most states there’s still property tax. A conservative has an almost pathological hatred of power with a proactive hand on its reigns. There isn’t the idea of conserving power of governance, only of being part of something called conservative that controls it.
LGBTQA+ (not really sure past there anymore)
The above listed communities have enacted major political change/agency past the point of anyone’s wildest conception. Trans-rights, same sex marriage, and even a gay couple on T.V. Not straight, not women, not white has become a strange social commodity. Visibility was never the problem, it was always acceptance and the way to apparently achieve it in the 21st century is through redundancy and TV campaigns and not through dialectic and debate. “Loud and proud” has become a moniker that both defines and amuses. For one a caricature and the other a symbol, the former having dramatically more power. To the point that communities cannibalize each other for further agency and attention.
Societal Singularity
Major societal changes aren’t invisible and are perceivable. The Romans obsessed over the eventual fall of Rome. Fall from pride, defeat from barbarians, the Carthaginian threat, and the eventual passage of time ate at Rome’s heels until it finally fell to its obsession with its fallen enemies, “barbarians”, and the pride of Byzantium. The fall of Rome’s affect is the part that no one perceived. Rome connected the Mediterranean world. Without Rome there was no common nation, currency, and culture to connect various groups together. The “dark ages” that followed were the loss and reestablishment of new monarchial and religious mediums. This pivot represents a societal change, and singularity not involving the way in which people did things, but how their society operates.
Societal singularities are common in history. The creation of technology, the rise and fall of empires, and the aftermath of large scale natural events permanently change the way in which societies operate. These events act as markers for humanity, and as signs that historians use as eras and triggering evens. This does not limit events and eras to singularities.
The idea that independence from the British or the Declaration of Independence were significant is not the defining factor for a societal singularity. The defining point is the pivot backwards, that at any point there will never be a regression from the point taken to a previous point. That for better, or worse, the entirety of that community now operates in a new fashion. The dark ages, the scientific revolution, the enlightenment, and the Atlantic revolutions were all important, but as steps to what followed. An end must always have a new beginning, but the end is always an end.
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