#hyperreality

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

Ippei Tsujito's Wrapping paper !

[remash]

slow burn | various ~ shawn huckins

[victusinveritas]

The pope out here talking about Hyperreality or somesuch.

[lily-of-the-valley-2001]

“Obscenity begins when there is no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theatre, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediately transparent, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication.”

Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication

[3eanuts]

September 22, 1956 — see The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958

[illuminerance]

#2: bacon

Bacon! America's favorite breakfast protein...right?

Believe it or not, our breakfasts used to be "light," -- like that of the French -- people would have juice, toast, and coffee, and that would be it. It wasn't fashionable to eat a heavy breakfast.

Then, in the 1920s, the Beech-Nut Packing Company hired a man named Edward Bernays to help with bacon sales.

Bernays' solution was to ask a doctor to write 5,000 other physicians, to see if they agreed that people's bodies lost a lot of calories during sleep and so it would be better if they had "hearty" breakfasts instead of "light" breakfasts. 4,500 out of the 5,000 physicians agreed.

The subsequent PR campaign helpfully suggested that there was no heartier breakfast to be had than bacon and eggs.

The combination was popularized in diners across the country and became a routine part of home consumption as well, thereby entering the realm of "realer than real."

Today, it outperforms all other breakfast proteins, including breakfast sausage, chorizo, and ham, with bacon sales topping out at $6.6 billion, more than triple that of sausage sales which total $2.2 billion.

[foxxdoxx]

the left sees the internet as an authentic extension of themselves where as the right sees the internet as a fake extension of themselves

Thats why you have so much infighting when it comes to out woking each other among leftists. Unable to agree on a single policy in the real world bc we're too busy discussing if veganism is actually white privilege or if that disabled friend with arrested development is problematic. Our representatives can see this instability and would rather take donor money than have to navigate the complex world of how every individual is oppressed within their larger community. Meanwhile on the right theyre joking about AI csam, calling eachother the n-word with their work address in their bio, calling cis women trans as a gotcha bc they dont see the internet as a real place with real consequences (bc there are no consequences currently). They can troll on the internet and then go back to work the next day with their brown coworkers and then come home to their wife and kids where they make the rules on how their household carries themselves. The right has zero reason to change their behavior as long as they continue to reap the privileges. As long as the left is fighting amongst ourselves we will continue to have shitty foundations to stand on

[infimace-blog]

Okay, we're doing this new thing where we heavily cross-promote any new shit that we're doing because I have the faint hope of being a professional internet creative person because it's the only career that seems both accessible and tolerable.

And the creative work of the day is postmodern surrealist fanfiction about the Sopranos, a show that I have, legally speaking, never watched. Go for it.

The Coldest Cuts | infimace | Ellipsus

Dying of the Sopranos