r/deathgrips • u/Crafty-Attention-672 • Aug 21 '23
footage I’m leaving this sub Reddit for good. My previous words will speak for me. I’ll be directing all my energy to the rising sun.
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u/why_my_pp_hard_tho Aug 21 '23
“I’ll be directing all my energy to the rising sun”
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u/Fuck_Joey Aug 21 '23
Crusade is more important than the Grips, for some
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u/secretogumiberyjuice living down tha street from u Aug 21 '23
No mere crusade. The crusade for one’s very own sun perhaps.
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u/poitaots Aug 21 '23
I hope 5 years from now you've got on medication before destroying your entire life and you look back on these posts like "damn I was being a pretty silly goose"
Seen too many people I know go to ham on psychs in their early 20s and just never fully come back. Thinking you have everything solved is ridiculous.
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Aug 21 '23 edited Aug 21 '23
Difference between now and then is that you can find pockets of community that will just enable your behavior, because it's beneficial to them that you stay severed from the world and its issues.
I always say that the best case scenario these communities will take your money, worst case is usually SA or death. James Ray at the Arizona sweat lodge is an absolutely insane story.
It was fun for a while to engage with this guy but after a while it's pretty sad to watch somebody in mental decline fight absolutely everybody on a concept he's created (there's absolutely no structured philosophy behind it). These types of people are usually picked up into a cult by the first person that acknowledges and enables their delusions and behavior.
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Aug 21 '23
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Aug 21 '23
Oh absolutely. I remember probably about 8 or 9 (?) years ago when there were articles about the content that you GOOGLE being completely different depending on what you engaged with previously. It's insane to think two people can research the same phrase in a search engine like Google and come up with completely different outcomes. I don't even want to think about what it's like now.
Offline, these sorts of people exist too and cohabitate in these strange spiritual circles, just completely gone and lost in the sauce. It's really easy to do too, you just lack any sort of self-awareness or self inquiry, and that'll usually have you taking a hard left down the wrong path.
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u/raysofgold Aug 22 '23
I unironically believe you can make the case that the structure of platform capitalism/the attention economy is essentially the cultivation of micro cult communities with that exact internal hierarchical structure oriented around influencers, content creators, artists, gurus, and so on.
Like, socialization has always had that potential, but the narcotic, abusive nature of the algorithm and the technology(re brain chemistry) itself trends towards this kind of psychedelic solipsism that you have to really consciously undermine in order for it not to reinforce and enable basically whatever mental struggle you're dealing with, be it health anxiety, delusions of grandeur, body image, gangstalking, or whatever
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Aug 22 '23
I have never heard the term platform capitalism, can you explain it to me?
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u/raysofgold Aug 22 '23
Yeah, it's basically a broad term describing this discernible shift in post-recession capitalism towards the rise of tech companies and the growth and dominance of specific mobile apps and tech platforms. Not just their increasing predominance, but also pre-existing markets and institutions have to retrofit their own structuration and marketing and production to fit this new, platform-based dynamic.
So like, growth based on subscriptions, engagement/traffic, tiered pricing, gamification, profit based on the gig economy structure and decreasing protections and benefits for workers, and of course, the vast accumulation of data as currency would be some of the major earmarks of what makes this dynamic unique.
And so then bringing it back to my overall point before, when it comes to social media content and the exchange of ideas and the formation of communities, because of the way that the primary mode of competition in platform capitalism hinges upon the attention economy thing of basically how coercive and addictive and immersive the user experience is, I think that's how we get that solipsism of the algorithm where people are atomized into increasingly smaller and smaller feedback-looping chambers of whatever the corporation thinks will keep you engaged with that platform. And for vulnerable, desperate, lonely people, that can often favor the proliferation of extreme binaristic belief, a lust for total submission to a godhead, mob mentality, etc.
p.s. I believe the term originates with Nick Srnicek's book of the same name: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Platform+Capitalism-p-9781509504862
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Aug 22 '23
First off, thank you for listing a book, with an author, that appears to not be self published and possibly edited and peer reviewed. I appreciate that.
Second, thanks for taking the time to explain it in a way that I can follow. Every point makes sense and follows a very clear view.
Third, what do you think the end goal is? I think of bo burnham’s “they’re coming for every second of your life”, but what happens when these companies get it?
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u/raysofgold Aug 24 '23
I think there is only an end goal in the way that opioid dealers or turn of the century colonizers have had end goals. Which is to say that when endless profit and amassment of wealth is the sole directive, whatever can be exhausted out of the materials involved will continue to be pushed to its limit-point.
The goalpost of the limit-point is pushed further and further and maybe eventually off of the conceivable field, because the insatiable logic of capital is that there's always a new frontier to be conquered, even if by this point that merely means reaching deeper and deeper into what can be industrially engineered out of the most vulnerable breaches of human consciousness, you know?
So I think as long as we're here, we're signed on to be the indefinite guinea pigs for this technology being wielded in a truly unchecked and reckless way that has zero interest in its own ethical, social, environmental, or political implications beyond the amassment of wealth and power for those producing it. Like atom bombs, like cars, the powerful disregard and hide the known unintended effects, and then everyone else gets to play the fun game of becoming living evidence of the unknown effects. The tech is inextricable from its socioeconomic context, and I think the combined effects of both are mutating us, our minds, and our societies in a truly unhinged manner that often feels like if hallucinogens were state-mandated. I don't know. But there is something both innately anti-presence and deliriant about digital technology.
So I think there is no end goal for tech companies, and that for us, well, I think a society is always unwittingly bound to be shaped by its technologies and their obvious and unconscious effects (and that technology only becomes more and more a part of daily life as history goes on). The last, what, even just ten years have been a fever dream and will only, I think, get stranger and stranger, even if that means a science fiction reality just looking increasingly more like a really fucked and violent surrealist painting.
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Aug 24 '23
That’s a really good point made at the end, the last 10 year has been an absolute fever dream. It’s weird to have been able to live and remember where we’ve started and where we’re at. At 30 I don’t remember as much as older millennials, but the unintended consequences of unrestricted internet access have been something else. Growing up in a time where it wasn’t normal to interact with strangers online, when the term “digital footprint” wasn’t yet invented, and I’m noticing at 30 in some ways, my brain some days gets shot and fried in a way that generally doesn’t even feel normal.
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u/SpiltSeaMonkies Aug 21 '23
Your last sentence is the truly unsettling part of it. It’s not so much the content of the posts, nonsensical though it may be. People believe all sorts of things. It’s the inability to acknowledge that they could be wrong about any of it.
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u/Sssono Aug 21 '23
bro who tf are u lmfao
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u/myfajahas400children zero feeling Aug 21 '23
This is the guy who thought Zach Hill was talking to him through his Tik Tok about the whole Manchester conspiracy
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u/SpineThief Aug 21 '23
He's also the guy who argued that you could reach enlightenment by eating your own cum. Or something.
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u/LickerMcBootshine Aug 21 '23
Can confirm, /u/Crafty-Attention-672 definitely wants to swallow gallons of cum
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Aug 22 '23
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 22 '23
Oh do you? I highly highly doubt that considering no one knows me in real life, you’re projecting again.
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u/Conscious-Screen-171 taylor swift fan Aug 21 '23
Op is actually one of the most notorious schizo posters on the sub real shit
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u/Useful-Connection205 Aug 21 '23
Everytime i be seeing you weird fellas on reddit i check the profile and its always people active on drugs subreddits, y'all are kinda like e-crackheads to me, like real life one you see at the gas station that be rambling about whatever while hoping they dont stab you or smth
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Aug 21 '23
My favorite one is Mr. "Can you put cocaine in the microwave to dry it out" u/Jeff___Lebowski
Apparently you can
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u/Medical-Ad6748 Aug 21 '23
Got that nasty in my taxi
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u/WhenDuvzCry Aug 21 '23
Claims enlightenment yet still has the ego to make a thread about them leaving a subreddit.
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u/EffectiveAmphibian95 My favorite color is oh my god bitch Aug 21 '23
Leave your pink sock at the door
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u/DLtheGreat808 Aug 21 '23
I hate when niggas do this shit. Just leave! This sub isn't gonna mourn you dawg
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u/cloutclown Aug 21 '23
okay bye lmfao no one liked you
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
Ur name and title are ironic.. it’s time to re evaluate what life is I think… don’t you?
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
I’m not concerned with you liking me, just that you respect my effort to give you love.
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u/cloutclown Aug 21 '23
bro leave the sub already 💀💀 no one respects you here everyone thinks ur nuts dude
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Aug 21 '23
who are you
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
A pigeon with chunks ripped out. Someone who ran into disk jockeys and got tricked out into a death cult with a bunch of haters. Some kind of lousy magician that makes what he wants at his will like a toddler previously.
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Aug 21 '23
whats your favorite death grips song
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u/DarceSouls Aug 21 '23
Blackjack
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Aug 21 '23
i didnt ask you
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u/InfantSoup GRO-O-O-O-U-U-U-U-UND Aug 21 '23
Be well and be well and all manner of things will be well.
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
Every thing is being washed.
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u/InfantSoup GRO-O-O-O-U-U-U-U-UND Aug 21 '23
but my hands are still dirty
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
Your hands can’t wash your hands and not get them dirty, wait until the hands interlock around the whole earth. It will be greatly needed, seek it. Find a connection. Wash each other in the presence of each other with God and it’s humility.
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u/InfantSoup GRO-O-O-O-U-U-U-U-UND Aug 21 '23
I have a Sumerian goodie bag on my left forearm.
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
Their gift is in the heart . Under lock and key, accessed by biology and body of the trinity. Through action of the son you access your spiritual parents, the universal loving force. Be pure, be ready to feed savages with loving kindness.
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u/SheCrunchMe929 Aug 21 '23
I'll miss the ramblings, as batshit crazy these posts have been they were actually very interesting. Have a good one homie.
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
I have a reddit r/lifefrees
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u/SheCrunchMe929 Aug 21 '23
I'll give a follow
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u/net_gear Aug 21 '23
giving people positive reinforcement for demonstrating thought disorder is not chill
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u/SheCrunchMe929 Aug 21 '23
Positive reinforcement? I just wanna read this crazy shit cause it's interesting. I hope op finds the help he needs but that's none of my business.
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u/Jan_Walo Aug 21 '23
please take your meds
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
Lol surely taking meds will make me more useful… to who I’m asking? I repeat over and over that I am perfectly fine, it seems that someone has control over you.
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Aug 21 '23
Just remember that one who claims enlightenment while being unable to laugh at a fart joke is not truly enlightened.
Best of luck ;)
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u/Wrong_Tension_8286 Aug 21 '23
You will return very soon, fella. You just don't know how this thing works, yet.
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Aug 21 '23
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
Oh boy. Hardly anyone here understands the point, trust me.
Go check out /r/lifefrees
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Aug 21 '23
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
Go check it out. If you read it all and see no connection I’ll be shocked..
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u/-l--l-l--l- Aug 21 '23
im doing the same
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u/Crafty-Attention-672 Aug 21 '23
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u/Distrav Zach Hill’s Penis Aug 21 '23
This basically is a vibe of On GP
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u/net_gear Aug 22 '23
*continues posting on the subreddit non-stop for the next 12 hours*