“What does it mean for the subject that there are no more casement windows to open, but only sliding frames to shove, no gentle latches but turnable handles, no forecourt, no doorstep before the street, no wall around the garden? And which driver is not tempted, merely by the power of his engine, to wipe out the vermin of the street, pedestrians, children and cyclists? The movements machines demand of their users already have the violent, hard-hitting, unresting jerkiness of Fascist maltreatment.”

–Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

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— c a i t (@kittynouveau) April 9, 2021

I read that article and almost hurled. The PMC seems so emotionally broken. I don’t mean in the sense of experiencing emotion so much that it shatters them, I mean as in a busted and defective mechanical device. If any partner of mine had a temptation to send me something like that, I’d prefer they just ghost me and disappear forever. That’d be far less insulting.

Liberals and their fucking contract negotiation tendencies combined with extreme prudishness. They’ve ruined relationships and sex maybe forever.

You are right, and it is deeply stupid that we are here at this point.

The only good news is that vaccination plainly helps, and it will help us as well. 🙂https://t.co/J6d2SmbtGf

— Steffen Christensen (@Wikisteff) April 10, 2021

Remember when for whatever reason “experts” were saying that herd immunity — even with vaccines — was impossible? Because I do.

Hmmm.

It’s a remarkable pass we’ve reached when science is defined as non-falsifiable and expertise is defined as an aspect of identity not a demonstration of mastery; and the end of that journey is a world in which the failure of the subject to be manipulated is their moral fault.

— The End Times (@TheAgeofShoddy) April 9, 2021

That tweet says a lot, and alas all of it is accurate. Expertise as identity is one of the worst events to happen culturally, and that my side, the liberal side, bought into this so heavily is really disappointing. It literally does not matter how wrong an expert is anymore — as long as they possess the right credentials it’s all, “Believe science!” And if you say that these experts are obviously wrong and everything they say completely disaffirmed by real-world evidence, then it’s citing of credentials left and right until the PMC wins again.