/siberia/ - Off-topic

>Communism KILLED millions and you support it?!
>You're just a red fascist, that's all you are

Your response?

How are you spending this Friday? Do you have any plans for the weekend?

Each and every one of them was a horrible despicable human being

today i will bother you with an autistic rant about all the half-baked midwit "common sense" takes that everyone in every community dedicated to the discussion of art indulges in all the time.
most of this post will use pop culture examples because that's what the vast majority of online discourse revolves around. but i've seen all of these applied to other kinds of art.

>cool robot
i despise this fucking meme.
yes, gundam is an anti-war series. it puts a spotlight on the meaningless horrors
and tragedies of war. however, it is also a series about a cool robot. the cool
robot is there, all the time, looking cool as it strikes heroic poses and slaughters
enemies. one cannot simply say that one prominent aspect of the series is arbitrarily
important and definitive while another is just for fun and should be ignored.
but here's the bigger thing: can anyone stop for five seconds and at least consider
that the tension between its anti-war perspective and its inevitable aestheticization
of warfare actually makes gundam a slightly richer series to experience and think about? is that so gundamn hard for some people? does everything have to be so damn singular, linear, literal?
similar examples: <insert crime story> here can't be aestheticizing crime because it shows that the criminal is immoral or he dies at the end etc. berserk isn't a power fantasy because guts goes through a lot of shit.
guess what: the misery and tragedy makes these characters cooler.
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Materialist explanation as to why when i go to bed in my normal day clothes i fall asleep really easily but when i put on pyjamas i can’t fall asleep at all?

The Federation of Damanhur, often called simply Damanhur, is a federation of self-sustaining communities, ecovillage, situated in the Piedmont region of northern Italy about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of the city of Turin. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the Chiusella Valley, bordering on the Gran Paradiso National Park. The community has its own constitution[1] and currency, the Credito.

Damanhur is named after the Egyptian city of Damanhur, which was the site of a temple dedicated to Horus.

The Federation of Damanhur was founded in 1975 by Oberto Airaudi with 12 of his close friends, and by year 2000 the number had grown to 800.[citation needed] It has communities and centers in Europe, America, Australia, and Japan.

The Temples of Humankind are a collection of subterranean temples built by the citizens of the Federation of Damanhur, and they are some of the largest underground temples in the world.[2]
Citizens of Damanhur
Damanhur

The constitution began with three bodies of Damanhur: The School of Meditation (ritual tradition) Social (social theory, social realization) and The Game of Life (experimentation and dynamics, life as a game, change). A fourth body was recently[when?] added, Technarcate (individual inner refinement).

Citizens participate in one of four levels, depending on their desired involvement: A, B, C, or D. Class A citizens share all resources and live on site full-time. Class B citizens contribute to financial goals and live on site a minimum of 3 days a week. Class C and D citizens live anywhere.[3] Class A & B citizens participate fully in The School of Meditation, Social, and the Game of Life. Class C citizens participate fully in The School of Meditation.

Citizens participate in one of several ways, depending on their personal nature. Ways include the Way of the Oracle, the Way of the Monk, the Way of the Knight, the Way of Health, the Way of the Word, the Way of Art & Work, and many others. Most citizens live in houses of 10-20 people each, federated together into the Federation of Damanhur.
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What happened on this day?

The brain development theory is just an excuse to infantilize prime age adults.
Neurophysiology doesn't automatically mean psychology.

The whole "25 is the new 18" is being promoted due to the average adult in postmodern era being a sad willful loser who wants to give up autonomy to save face from their loserdom.

I notice the people who support raising the age of majority are often those who willfully decided to waste their youth instead getting their shit together.

If we decide to delay adult hood until the mid twenties, parents will have more economic strain.

The retirement age will have to be raised to the eighties.

Schools will have to do more to accommodate more students who by right should be contributing to society.

We will have less vital-bodied workers which means more liability.
The brain development theory is just encouraging behavioral sink.

This is the best movie ever made

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