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5373. Soviet Union as challenge run / Soviet Union as glitched speedrun -> while people are very misinformed on almost everything in the current century, I think that one type of metaphor that has a lot of promise for getting people to think correctly again is card games and video games. when people say that Communism "doesn't work", what they mean is that Liberal-republicanism is easier to do. it's easy to get it started, it doesn't take extra effort. but things being easy doesn't make them impressive. it's more impressive to beat a civilization game on high difficulty than to pick the game's easiest difficulty and then say you have the best civilization.
      god, you know what's frustrating? like. most video games are based on simulating the concept of effort. even when people break the normal mechanisms of games, speedruns and challenge runs still simulate the concept of effort. this is so utterly intuitive to people that The Speedrun Guy who doesn't understand games clumsily tried to argue that speedruns were bad because they were jumping over effort and skipping to the end (which is factually untrue if you've ever seen anyone design a speedrun). and then, you manage to get people like The Speedrun Guy who don't understand the simple concept that challenges are hard and that makes them challenges. ??? why. how do we live in an era where "you can't just skip to the end" is such a big huge talking point for everyone — you can blame "AI" for that spiking more than ever all of a sudden — but like, we don't understand which things are actually hard or impressive.

The speedrun guy

664. speedrun / speedrunning -> (please note: numbered Lexemes have been replaced with the Term namespace)
665. lateral thinking / thinking with portals -> I think it's so stupid how every guide to jobs and business is like, lateral thinking! lateral thinking! but if you really truly have lateral thinking you turn the entire thing sideways and see the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of capitalism that make it eat itself, and once you've thought so laterally you turn against capitalism they really don't like that. then they're like, no, don't you go thinking laterally, there's only one way to do things. this seems to be the heart of that one reactionary video I saw where the guy I can't remember was really mad about the concept of speedrunning. he was like, I hate that people are spending their time speedrunning, it's definitely a synonym of a crumbling civilization when people are going around the real way to do things and looking for shortcuts. and I thought it was unbelievably stupid, because the point of speedruns is basically to learn about the physics of the particular game engine and do science experiments to see if there are different ways those artificial physics could be applied technologically. speedrunning is basically a fictional process of research and development. you're shooting your civilization in the foot by getting rid of all the scientists and inventors. and why would you do it? because you think pure numerical ranking and graph placement produces stuff rather than labor and creativity. you're King Vegeta. but he can't build a fucking (pronounced redacted) scouter and has to buy it from another country. all because he doesn't like speedrunning, but speedrunning is lateral thinking.
5370. Speedrunning is for cheaters
5387. Addiction results when we misplace the journey and skip to the end / Addiction results when we skip over discovering the correct path through something and skip to the end -> this is probably what the speedrunning guy actually meant. but it was still a really stupid way to apply it. the speedrunning guy seems to believe that only chunk competition and slaughtering other groups of people is the natural way of life that can make us happy, and walking away from that imperative makes us addicted. this is why I don't like Freudian models. because whatever theory of society you have in terms of a Social-Philosophical Bauplan, you're likely to believe your ideology is the only correct way and having any other heretical ideology results in maladaptive escapism or addiction. even Communists fall into this fallacy and don't realize they need to think harder than this. if Trotsky can go around saying Stalin is ignoring the truth just because Stalin's government made his people unhappy, we need to think harder about how anybody actually looks outside any particular Marxism and actually discovers what's true.

Going beyond

5372. Difficulty is the lack of outsourcing (removal of; meta-Marxism onto Lacanianism) / Difficulty is the lack of being able to pay for something to be done by someone else -> one definition of difficulty which properly explains why using "AI" is not difficult.
      also half explains why it's okay to counter peasants being bigoted: farming animals in particular can be a way of shifting difficult tasks onto someone else, which is a major connection between "peasants" and "the bourgeoisie". when humans actually have to be out there in the field doing a considerable amount of the work for someone else they are removed from the "corruption" of easily getting stuff for no work and a bit of money. capitalism is the act of farming people. Animal Farm is backhandedly true.
5389. Historical materialism is the opposite of addiction / If addiction results from skipping over boundaries to get to the end, then historical materialism is the opposite of addiction -> the perfect corollary to "surplus jouissance" that no Lacanian would ever think of. if we make ourselves unhappy by convincing ourselves it's easy to be happy by skipping to the reward and not considering the proper way to get there... is it not also true that the proper way to get anywhere is dictated by physics and the repeated behaviors of the world, and we can only do things the correct way by understanding the way the world works? if we don't understand how the world really works, then we'll never actually know the correct way to get through boundaries or go through a journey and not merely skip to the end. if we never actually learn the correct way, then getting stuck in addicting patterns or escapism isn't actually anyone's fault, it's just the inevitable outcome. we can't exert our will to do something we don't even know. yet Existentialism also wants to tell us the road ahead is impossible to know. if that's true most of us are slated to be addicts. the great majority of all the content on social platforms about "how society keeps us lazy or distracted" is totally and utterly wrong.

Ideology codes

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• MX onto ML
• MX onto Aa