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The actual quote: "We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism,

patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas

which kill, and contempt for woman"... telling, that which you removed. The critical inversion that robs political meaning "to feed the unknown and enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of

the Absurd"

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Yes, as I said, Marinetti had some good words but his actual life was an embarrassment

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You say technology is heading towards a giant horrible panopticon and also we should embrace, it? WTF? I sentence you to read Uncle Ted's manifesto ten times followed by some Heidegger and Jacques Ellul.

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all forms of primitivism are a dead end

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Lol, GAE and ubiquitous surveillance is a true dead end that results in all of us dying. That is as you yourself pointed out our current trajectory, do you really think the .1 percent of the population who are dissident right weirdos with no wealth or power are going to stop that? Lulz!

To those who say the only way out is through, I’d counter with, is what emerges from the singularity actually still human? Or is it a mere cyborg simulacra of humanity?

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There is no singularity. Every alleged exponential curve is a young sigmoid. There won't be cyborgs, but there might be some bugman amputees and voluntary lobotomies by the time it's over. To see it through is only to patiently await their suicides.

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This is a great essay that lays it all out there but I'm still trying to digest. Intrinsically I prefer option #2 and I guess that makes me a faggot. But I also appreciate the beauty of masculinity in its true form. My worry about speed is that it ultimately leads to a crash. But all things come to an end, no? Buddhism tells us to embrace our death.

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So your solution to what Marinetti would have called "passatismo" is more passatismo?

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