@abcdentminded It’s the closest musical analogue I’ve heard to the experience of the internet/YouTube-- a vortex of transient tastes and times. It feels like the first RYM-native genre
@solesofwind I've been listening to this kind of maximalist sound collage stuff for a decade but had no idea they came up with a name for it until yesterday
The real issue with the present is a dawning cult of immaterialism. There are infinite parallel universes, everything than can happen has already infinitely happened, etc etc. The Matrix etc etc. This is basically the Antichrist, metaphorically here-- it is about "The Disincarnation"-- "The Material World is Evil" -- an equation of Spirit with Light in the sense of being "computational intelligences" in these models of the brain.
I could walk in circles around the vast parking lot of the shopping mall next to the home of my adolescence for a lifetime and never get bored. This is the only thing that I miss.
Freedom as duty has never made more sense than today where freedom as volitional/rational choice to maximize utility has been ruthlessly unmasked as “doom scrolling” — you are unfree when you choose what has been chosen for you to choose, you are free when you choose what you are not offered as a choice. Freedom is not voting, freedom is not-voting.
Nick Land can be insightful but he's insightless & conceptionless when it comes to spiritual matters, he was led-astray & duped in his youth by evil stupid people promising about an eschatologistic Unborn, Unsatiable, Unquenchable AI Superintelligence Singularitarization Demon