>>2749Nice fish. I wish I could go fishing where I live. Factories and chemical plants build right on the waters and pollute them such that we have signs around saying to not eat the fish from them. Fishing just to catch something never seemed fun to me.
Your talk of the underground reminds me a little of an article I read. That led me down an rabbit hole; apparently that article was based on a blog post, and that blog post was actually very influential. Eventually, the original blog post author compiled the writings into a book. I believe the article I was familiar with is in here. Very neat. The most vivid part of that article to me is the Dark Forest analogy it uses, that there is the clearnet and the dark forest, with the clearnet being publicly accessible websites and the dark forest being everything else. The dark forest is the natural response to commodification and is extremely susceptible to it, sharing space with the clearnet after all. That is the inherent difficulty, that there is no counter to what has become of the Internet in the true sense and one must simply turn the Internet into something useful. Of course, as I see it, even these walled gardens necessarily succumb to the issues of the Internet simply because it is the Internet still. SomethingAwful became a walled garden pretty early on, and it's a big cause for a lot of these issues. I fear that even being underground is a part of the issue, that there is nothing not commodified in some sense, that perhaps the best solution available is to direct that commodity away from behemoth corporate entities.
I think there's a bit too much dislike of the suburban home aesthetic. Most people chase after that merely for security. Sure, there is good in being without ties and drifting and doing what you want, but then maybe you end up dying on the street doing that. You don't die on the street if you have a house in your name and a spouse and some children who all deeply care for each other (though, is that kind of family structure still a thing?) Punks have been wearing suits for a long time, is what I mean. You can cultivate rich and meaningful awareness in that kind of situation. As you put it though, most are lost and have no sense of self. Their sense of self is a commodity to be bought and sold, in great quantities by others but primarily by themselves. I think that is what Lain was lo
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