Perfect emoji to represent the ghoulishness of some people. I found it on this post from Ian Wright which described Capital as a God being worshiped
Fr though, that’s got to be some bomb-ass pussy
New Chaos God just dropped.
Okay hear me out
Wow, the Ian Wright post was certainly an interesting read. Thank you for sharing!
Really cool work of art- though the article linked is even more impressive- terrifying and awe-inspiring, like the notion of “god” is supposed to be conventionally.
While the concept of a feedback loop of course wasn’t new to me, the way it is all laid out and described- the concepts of egregores, control theory, and the specific deconstruction of capital is amazing- as a nerd and an ex-Catholic I really enjoyed it, and it’s definitely food for thought as well. Thanks for sharing it.
The article is interesting. I’m not sure I fully understand the argument in it, or maybe am feeling it’s incomplete. I sort of get the idea of capitalism to some extent being a self-reinforcing mechanism, but there is also the conscious class and caste development alongside it done by humans. And without the monopoly on violence that the capitalist state has - or if we are going bigger, the “political power coming from the barrel of a gun” that the capitalist empire has - the exploitative nature of it has little to stand on; the exploited masses would be able to say no without life-threatening consequence.
Yes, it is true that capital cannot be understood as a self sustaining force. It can only exist in a certain environment that has been prepared for it. In this way, the real nature of this “God” is laid bare, as another strange kind of lifeform, that feeds upon humanity. As long as the correct environment is provided, capital continues to reproduce and evolve and its total mass continues to increase. That is until it reaches the limit of how much energy it can extract from the finite human population (tendency of rate of profit to fall).
So this thing is birthing many people and then eating them?
No, that’s just a lower mouth from which it is also eating
It looks like they’re pouring out.
Yes, it does look like that. But the point of the image was to depict a god that eats humans. It’d be kinda strange if it was also birthing humans, but maybe that’s another layer of meaning?
Maybe it’s a metaphor for the universe.
