Episode 65 - There's a Time and Place For Talks Like This
Added 2025-04-22 21:59:32 +0000 UTCOn today's episode, we discuss old school memories, the meaninglessness of a society that is searching for meaning, fighting with your partner, and never ever giving up.
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Recognize the irony about how counter culture is coopted by main stream & business. Entire discussion regarding hyperstimulation without internal reflection, as well as the extend sex has become business; reminds me strongly of "The girl from monday". Have to admit i'm curious to what extend people here are familiar with the works of Hal Hartley and opinions about it. My pet peeves :x The remark at the end of the talk regarding how society seems to lack maturity compared to the old days resonates strongly. It's like perpetual adolescence as we can & are encounaraged to structure our lives to be as unbound as possible: free of engagement & commitments. This isolates us even further from ourselves as we are no longer confronted with the other, the ultimate sanity check for our self images. Instead we rage about constructed images of the other, and as it's only a construct, unable to teach. And the rage lets me externalize pain. So we don't have to look at what causes it. Like the discussion about what our our rights/why do they have more instead of why are we being hurt. And the penultimate question for modernity: why am I hurting myself. So we often go to sleep with sound on, in order to avoid the turtle of our conscience, which tends to catch up when we lay ourselves to sleep. *** Anyways, thanks for the talk.
karel vancamp
2025-04-27 14:34:26 +0000 UTCAbout three or four years ago, when I was fourteen or fifteen, I had TikTok. I was literally like most people on it: stupid, arrogant, I'd go allong with whatever was trending at the time. I'd spend over two hours a day on the app, sometimes even six (this was during covid). I became completly brainwashed (equivalent to brainrotten when it comes to the internet I suppose) by the prevalent ideologies that where shared, such as radiaclly liberal views and pro-whatever was deeemed "good" in the moment, etc. etc. etc... Why does a fourteen year old girl need to be involved in politics? No, she shouldn't be. While its beneficial to know about the subject, being immered in it at that age is something else. In my case, this immersion began right after the George Floyd thing. I felt like I needed to be an advocate against discrimination or whatever, that's how it began. Later, the "alt" girl trend happened and I jumped right in. I obisuly wasn't a true alternative girl, I was was the internet told me was cool. Of course, being fourteen, I was easilly influenced, and specially during covid when it seemed that you only had the internet; it seemed to be the only way to interact or leave the house (scapism). To keep this brief, I'll just say that they (I say "they" but I don't ignore the fact that I am to blame for this too) made belive I was something that I wasn't, I didn't know anything at all and yet I felt entilted to having radical opinions about everything, I also victimized myslef as a means to feeling like an individual - that's what they sell to you: if you have problems (like mental problems or such) you are mysterious, or fit in the "depressed lonley girl aethetic". It's all bullshit in the end. Tiktok is bullshit; but then I guess people like the taste of bullshit right? Anyways, I think what made me jump out of that infinite brainrot loop was a multitude of things. For one, I moved to another country that spoke a different language, secondly, I was tired of needing to brag and expose myself (I asked myself "why do I feel the need to show my life to other people?"). What helped me the most though was Cinema, because watching films, real films, made me grow a lot, even when I don't understand them fully. For example hearing the dialogues or monologues of a Bergman film, realizing what is important in life; witnessing the true, unfiltered humanity in the films of the all great masters (Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, Bresson, Kiorostami... I could go on). All the bullshit that is sold to you on the internet is meant to keep you numb, to keep you stupid, to keep you irracional and a slave to entretainment. I luckly managed to get out in time. For I think two years now I'm not in social media and I'm as happy as I've ever been. But be careful because: Just when you think you're out... they try to pull you back in!!!!
Regina Lopez
2025-04-25 10:12:19 +0000 UTC
