A few thoughts on riots

[@planeofimmanence2157]

“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state’s monopoly of armed violence.” - Guy Debord

[@planeofimmanence2157]

One should keep in mind a lot of looting isn't for looting sake in some sort of consumer trauma feedback loop, a lot of it is being redistributed to help support the rioters.

[@SoaringSuccubus]

How does looting undermine the commodity, if it's being stolen? If it were being broken against the pavement, I would understand, but it isn't.

[@keemstarkreamstar7069]

All this fancy talk to excuse the fact that some people are impulsive violent thugs.

[@Everyone321]

@@keemstarkreamstar7069 you are very silly

[@keemstarkreamstar7069]

@@Everyone321 How so? Care to explain the high and mighty cause that was achieved by these riots in retrospect? Homicide rates, especially among African Americans, increased. Plenty of people lost their livelihoods and neighborhoods trashed, the very movement they believed they were fighting for has since become unpopular and its memory combined with that of grifters using funds to buy mansions. Ever wonder why those anti-COVID measure riots in China were so successful a year ago, yet they did so little damage even when facing against an authoritarian regime?

[@s3fruit969]

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[@aquat715]

Jump straight into AŒ, there's am excellent professor on KZbin who covers the books concepts, follow along and build from there

[@Ideennot]

This was a nuanced and good opinion video!

[@soulfuzz368]

The fence is pretty far up his ass tbh

[@nyafcanyafca]

@Not Actually any chance to invite you as dramaturg to for collab?

[@naitzab]

When will you be on Infrared show???

[@Konsti461]

Im a little late but your thoughts on riots are pretty close to what Anton Jaeger calls Hyperpolitics- maybe its worth checking out if you haven’t done by now :D

[@richardmills5326]

can you do a video on spinoza

[@NotActually]

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[@richardmills5326]

Aldous Huxley hehe forgot about this thanks

[@aykay1468]

will you make more videos?

[@minerbroEDI]

Fantastic video

[@fingermand]

Will you be reuploading part 2 of Intensity, Virtuality, and the Structure of Time any time soon, or maybe give a link to a file download? Thank you :)

[@stevenflorides9778]

great vid once again, but i want to ask, where did you find the comments made by slavoj zizek?

[@NotActually]

this is from the Pervert's Guide to Ideology kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGW7mKN9p96Kh6M

[@Megaghost_]

Hi, I can't reach you through twitter so I hope you read this post, I want to let you know that I'm working on adding spanish subtitles to some of your videos, I've never done this before so I don't know if that process requieres your final approval, if you agree with this please let me know. And thanks again for your content!

[@NotActually]

Wow that's awesome, I have no idea how subtitles work but I will totally approve them if I need to. I keep trying to open dms on twitter but I think I'm a boomer because it never works, I'll try again lmao

[@Megaghost_]

@@NotActually great! I just sent you a message, now I can.

[@obrotherwhereartliam]

Well, what a spent match this was.

[@riccardosecci2637]

Wow! I loved this analysis

[@soulfuzz368]

I would love to see a follow up now that it’s pretty obvious that all of this resulted in zero change.

[@NotActually]

I mean a main thrust of the video is that movements like this rarely result in change and that you shouldn't just assume things are happening because people are out on the streets

[@soulfuzz368]

@@NotActually yeah I got that but you still made it pretty clear that it was “important” that it happened. The way you stated it “usually doesn’t result in change” leaves it open enough that something positive could have still happened. Now that it’s over it would be interesting to see if you changed your mind at all.

[@NotActually]

@@soulfuzz368 I still think something positive could have happened. There have been at least a half dozen moments like in the West this in the past 10-15 years, none of them lead to meaningful political change. I don't think that means that these expressions of discontent are meaningless or unimportant though, the issue is that we do not have the capabilities to transfer these expressions into anything resembling political change; I don't think the failure of (yet another) protest just means we can dust off our hands and conclude that these energies don't actually exist or that there is now no more potential for radical political change. And I try to be specific when I say the West because in plenty of non-Western countries, to this very day, if you get a few million people out on the street you can literally topple the government. There is something very specific about the ideological constellation of modern liberalism which works to undermine revolutionary energies from the outset, and many times it even looks as if a genuine (leftist) revolutionary moment is impossible in the West, I fully admit that. But the expression of discontent means something, and radical political change has a funny way of coming only when people have totally given up on its possibility. ‘For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. While people are saying “Peace and security”, destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.’ - Paul

[@soulfuzz368]

@@NotActually your optimism is commendable

[@johnliener6555]

holy hell this sucks *so* much

[@RobertKuusk]

I strongly disagree here. I'm not pro destroying essential infrastructure, burning down police stations is dumb. If you are going to "storm the palace", sure, but otherwise messing with govt. property is going to be largely pure negative outcome. they are built with money taken from the people, after all. looting target, on the other hand, I would even encourage. what ill comes from looting target, other than bad press?

[@RobertKuusk]

advocating for "funneling these protests into a positive project" is utterly and completely misunderstanding the dionysian. the protests ARE in themselves the positive project. revolutions are INHERENTLY (!!!!!!) destructive, they can only at first reduce, decimate, eliminate.

[@craigharrison1274]

He knows what he’s doing.

[@soulfuzz368]

@@RobertKuusk there was nothing revolutionary about those protests. It’s just a release of energy in the form of civil right larping. With no clear goal they failed to achieve anything of substance, nothing changed except a few people died and a few more are locked up. It was a temper tantrum that was mostly tolerated and now we have all moved on back to the way things were.

[@modernmyth9050]

​​@@RobertKuusk And how's "the revolution" going now? The left has pretty much abandoned any actuonsble approaches to raising class consciousness. Race relations have only gotten worse. Institutional power is even more entrenched.

[@aipkjbf]

so aldous just casually came out as a leftist

[@Fryguystudios]

You didn't notice that before?

[@aboxintheblack9530]

He said he was a Communist in a prior video.

[@postmachine]

make more videos NOW

[@postmachine]

also i love you take care

[@NotActually]

okay love you too

[@krsteon]

fentanyl

[@leonardocaetano6307]

Now we need your video about the Kanye running.

[@atlasspoke9807]

A lot of fancy words that add up to nothing. Theft is theft, and "morality ends where a gun begins." - Atlas Shrugged (...when push came to shove).

[@NotraNaum]

What makes you think the left wing is the solution to the right wing?

[@ryancier]

Well, what do you think the solution is, then?

[@NotraNaum]

@@ryancier There is no universal solution, only personal ones.

[@MacSmithVideo]

@@NotraNaum Stirner approves

[@ManyDog]

L/acc

[@ryancier]

Go figure, a centrist nee-sayer against revolution has attracted all sorts of conservatives and reactionaries to the comment-section. Good job, Aldous, you're gonna end up encouraging another Kyle Rittenhouse.

[@NotActually]

Am I supposed to be the centrist naysayer against revolution in this story? Did you even watch the video lol

[@MacSmithVideo]

what's wrong with that? Rittenhouse did nothing wrong.

[@MacSmithVideo]

@Rayyan Ali read it. overrated.

[@soulfuzz368]

Kyle is a hero. Abolish police.