The Wages of Fear (1953)
What an absolute butt-clencher. Loved how for the first hour or so the movie doesn't really get into the main plot and could've gone in a completely different direction afterwards. All this character development at the beginning really pays off later on during the more thrilling moments.

There's a quasi-remake called Sorcerer (1977) by William Friedkin, looks interesting as well.

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Some b-movie vibes here and there, but I still found it very moving. The casting is particularly great, with Dafoe as Jesus of course, Harry Dean Stanton and David Bowie in their minor but memorable roles as Saul and Pontius Pilatus, and especially Harvey Keitel with his Brooklyn accent as a gangster Judas is a stroke of genius.
Also great soundtrack by Peter Gabriel.

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>>50889
Thanks again for the recommendations!

Hey britlad, not sure wherever you went but I just wanted to formally apologize to you about that and how you were right last year for telling me to invest. That is literally the fourth fucking time in my adult life I missed a rather major, epic chance to cash in because I was retarded and/or too poor to do anything about it. When you told me I should stop paying my rent and just invest you literally told me that right before this huge crypto bull run, judging by the charts. I mean yeah I eventually ran out of money anyways by new years. Yeah it was actually quite noice to push myself so far ahead on bills and rents that for once in my life I knew I could quit my job and live with myself playing vidya for months on end without any job and not even so much as get pestered with a bill in the mail. It was actually a noice feeling, but I should have listened to you. Had I actually taken that gamble back then I'd of had thousands and thousands of dollars extra now per just a few hundred which I could've easily written off as a loss, and I think a huge part of it is in being both stupid lazy. That, and because I pretty much just did not think it could justify sinking into investments then.

I would also just like to point out in the medium to short term I am absolutely expecting to be getting hosed, which is fine by me because I don't think anybody should ever actually invest money in anything particularly this volatile without mentally and emotionally having already written it off as a loss. I still consider my financial exposure well within acceptable limits, with say 5k junkcoins for $5-10 being at once the lowest possible financial exposure as well as the rather unlikley chance of it going up being the maximum returns for such a small bet.

I don't know much on investing however and I was actually disappointed to see how much airlines and cruises particularly Southwest Airlines being either up already or outright largely unaffected. It figures Southwest would be up.

Meanwhile I want to absolutely bet against myself in the longer term with quantum computers as well as genetechs if I can find the right IPOs. Apparently a megacorp holds a company literally called Genentech as the subsidiary and which now holds the 23andme databases you're a moron for paying someone to harvest your genetic data if you did that for frivolous reasons btw but which isn't what I want, and sadly it's likely going to be a bunch of chink companies to be most profitable because PRC corps don't give a shit about the rules and will just keep doing unethical or dangerous gene editing. The bigger problem is they lie, as a whole. I don't trust a word that comes out of a Chinese mouth. I will never speak the language so I can't even verify not being conned, but if I can find genetic engineering to buy into that will be the next tech rush. We are exiting the digital era and the future will not be nano, it will be genetic. The gene age will immediately follow the digital revolution and I want to cash in on that.

The other thing I'll say though is that the Quantum computing rush is likely to break crypto. Crypto mining and encryption, breaking anything without qubit level encrypts, I really don't doubt that it can just adapt with the times but I think a lot of coins won't which is what will cause even wilder speculation along with my expectation of crypto being stabilized as trash in the longest term as a result. Its primary beneficiaries are just going to be all the megacorps and Chinese government. I have no idea why morons want to do away with fiat, because crypto is more traceable than cash. When I pull fistfuls of fiat out of my account it simply disappears. Even if it's harder with Monero, you still leave a digital trail that can get used to track all your purchases. They're literally building the 666 New World Order they rant about.

But regardless, I should have invested. Even if I was risking losing lots of money, which I clearly am now and that is why I mostly picked up cheap shit and new shit even if BTC and ETH will crash and take down all the other cryptos with it. Yet even those shitcoins went up over the past year. Literally I could have made 10x my money back had I listened to you, Britain gov employee with the Titan card.

As for anything else I'm just starting to look into longer term stocks, which like my dad told me he got returns on stock from 20 years ago but I am not betting on America 20 years from how. 10 year stock sure but nothing 20-30 years unless that is also money I especially never expect to see a dime back. I'd much rather invest on European companies. Those do have a great future ahead of them. I suppose whatever the hell African Nasdaq/DOW would also be a good bet for something cheapest that will grow like crazy while being highly volatile, but I'd rather look at EU blue chips now to just hold value.

My thinking has continuously been evolving for months now and it has occurred to me I think the most efficient use of my time would be forking a blockchain somewhere to try and create my own crypto. My main problem is not even the ineptitude with code afaik but rather the legal exposure I could plausibly incur particularly given that it is now "regulated" and depending how I do it could be running afoul of the Securities Exchange Commission. I think that ironically the best bet for ass covering is fortuitously also the laziest, in that I could just release some shit into the wild and buy into what I made like crazy after announcing it rather than promising anything at all nor in having any actual stake in it whatsoever outside of being just another investor. I have already figured out exactly what to do and how I could do it minus the actual part about learning to use Putty or some shit like that, and also because ETH forks like what I was looking at wanted a facebook account. like seriously just what in the absolute fuck? Why. The fuck. Does anybody. Keep pushing crypto like it's some grand solution. So far as I have seen they are rapidly accelerating the New World Order cashless society dystopia they've been ranting at me about for years now. So far as I have seen immediately following the wild west crypto phase we'll have a total Chinese style control over everything linking to your social credit score. It's beyond retarded.

Like, I am pretty sure what I have in mind is actually workable, especially if I could set up some kind of cheapass home server on a Pi and just set up my own website. All of this takes way more technical acumen than I have but luckily at pre-birth character creation while I did use a bunch of retarded things as dump stats and took a few negative perks to free up more space I pretty much just rolled on a high /INT/ character under the assumption I could work my way out of any jam the negatives cause. I know I can do this if I overcome my own laziness and enforce the strictest of discipline to singlemindedly pursuing this project.

>but isn't this just some retarded get rich quick scheme where you'll only end up losing money

Plausibly yes that could happen however I am utterly convinced if I do it this way I don't even need to win the lottery, which even at a low yield of $400k would free up so much time and wealth I could start exponentially growing my money. I am still phrasing it like this because I know that there's really only a couple of avenues that could work and am amazed no one figured out this shortcut yet, so I want the idea to sound as absolutely retarded and crackpot as possible if or until I have executed it and then either I don't do it or people would eventually see why my way would work. I have had lots of other ideas that had nothing to do with crypto but this is by far the most efficient and high yield angle.

All that notwithstanding my bigger fear is securities commissions in case there is some obtuse federal regulatory law I might trip on. I know for a fact you can get arrested if it mimics securities instead of commodities, also that ICOs are regulated which in the case of ICOs I don't want that anyway because most people will think it's scams. Just a flat out commodity where I buy my own blockchain.

>>52225
Those utterly random hyphens are not making my headache better. Lack of paragraphing doesn't help either. I'll finish reading this later but I do agree with the idea, iirc read here, that people are backporting ideas of computers and technology onto themselves in ways that are false, to make them more like computers than other way around. I have long railed against cybernetics and many aspects of technology in spite of being a borderline techno-fetishist myself specifically because I am opposed to the social control, and to the way the tech will fit in the economic, geopolitical, and social order. For example you will likely have an implant that it is illegal to modify your own part's firmware, effectively becoming property of the corporation.

It is a more totality of turning man into slave than has ever before been proposed, with each grafted part not adding to the organism, but rather losing more of yourself, both physically, legally, and spiritually, to the extent that due to neoliberalism and globalism aka international Capitalism, rather than freeing us it will enslave us, just as due to the nature of our society automation and robots will impoverish rather than enrich us. There is no way around this because it is the nature of our awful flawed system itself. Were it another system, having an entire underclass of automatons would provide a life of leisure and scholarly pursuit, freed energy, enhanced production, abundance for everybody, as certain Marxists once proposed, as did the Venus Project; but instead, because of Capitalism all it means is a cyberpunk dystopia with massively burgeoning underclass and unemoloyment and homelessness, itself a self created problem necessitating a vast expansion of the police state and authoritarian powers. They will need even more dystopian methods of control, from blanket surveillance, to brutality, to camps, to something right out of the game Syndicate
https://www.wired.com/story/billionaires-use-vr-avoid-social-change/

The problem is the nature of our system, and in turn cybernetics would do nothing but make Man himself more closely mirroring the mindless automatons, and being treated as such; indeed, you will become less than human in more ways than one. It is the natural progression from the idea that tinkering with what should be your own property becomes punishable as a crime, because it is not your property, until you yourself become the property as is all hardware installed to your body
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090804/1537125771.shtml

It is the logical conclusion of legal precedence--there is no other plausible outcome. You will become effectively owned by the company, because the company will own at least the firmware of your cybernetics.

I have addressed this and some other issues in writing about all the problems inherent in the new Eidos games, and specifically why Deus Ex HR and MD unwittingly became extensions of Picus, and themselves almost an audacious tongue in cheek reference to its own state as a piece of ideological propaganda, diverting your attention away from systemic critique and boxed in within the framework Eidos' propaganda had imposed on you, namely, the ideas that cybernetics are "evolution"; that it's more like XMen mutations empowering you, while blatantly showing the corporate logo of Sarif boldly printed on all your corporate owned hardware now replacing your own parts; on depicting those skeptical of corporate patented cybernetics as being akin either to religious fanatics, racist bigots, or authoritarian fascists, who moreover are motivated by the shadowy global conspiracy to suppress, rather than promote, this technology; and to frame it all, the entire problem of class, as merely being about insufficient access to consumer goods. It is in that very real regard a savvy establishmentarian propaganda piece, carefully constructed to portray itself as legitimate resistance to shadowy cabals, while itself directly promoting the interests of those cabals in the real world.

There is a certain extent to which a majority of our media takes an inverted approach compared to the Soviet system, where nobody trusted the propaganda because they knew it was propaganda, but rather positions itself here as resistance, opposition, or counterculture--in fact the implication was embedded in your very post. They seem rather to take the approach of pushing their message and interests by posing as the legitimate resistance or counterculture, while formulating those very ideas in deeply establishment think tanks and organizations like DARPA and the RAND corporation; indeed, that very thing has long been insinuated to have been the origins of 60s counterculture, in an effort to capture, coop, and redirect the anticipated inevitable resistance and skepticism that would come from the public.

Indeed, any videogame treats corporatism as a foregone conclusion, not just in present reality, nor just projected into the future, but in all realities; this should not be surprising given that such business entities have nearly monopolized all such content creation. It is reminiscent of Soviet levels of propaganda and information control. The true extent of this dystopia is revealed upon any cursory examination of the content, like the outright lies of Call of Duty rewriting history to have the Highway of Death atrocity in Iraq rewritten to having been done by the Russians, to even Stardock and Amplitude depicting all empires as having the alleged inevitability of becoming corporate, even the ones using Communist motifs, to games like Imagine Earth and Invisible Inc.; all such realities are redepicted as corporate ones. This becomes an even more amusing anachronism in waiting given that it's ultimately Wectern corporate wishful thinking and denialism in the face of an ascendant pseudo-Communist China.

The aim of all this, of course, is always the same in our system because the system itself remains unchanged, namely financial exploitation and social control. To them such things as cybernetics are merely a more powerful tool to that end, and will ceaselessly promote the tools of mass enslavement as the means to our liberation and salvation. They have been doing so for decades now, while devising new ways of promoting it, just as groups like VeriChip failed to promote implanted RFID chips for something as trivial as buying a drink, as though the surveillance and tracking enabled by credit transactions were no longer enough. The obvious subtext of all this, of course, is they themselves view mass social upheaval, unrest, and revolutionary musings as an inevitability when people come face to face with what they are doing, which is precisely why they promote these tools of enslavement as consumer goods instead, be it Alexa, iPhones, built in always online XBOX webcams, RFID chips, or cybernetics.

None of this is to say the tech itself is bad in and of itself, but rather that the outcome is a foregone conclusion due to the nature of the system in which it propagates.

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>random hyphens/ Lack of paragraphing

I c/p ofc, paragraphing is like the original, just no empty line inbetween them (but the orginal doesn't have them neither).

Cybernetics proposes solutions by treating things like systems, by treating things digital (discretization) which means as distinct countable data that allow for mathematical operation, computation. Therefore cybernetics is perfect as operative tool.
The 60s counterculture was driven by visions of non-hierachical (anti authoritarian spirit of '68) socities (Fred Turner, 2006), the grass root network seemed the perfect political counter to topdown planning (also communist!), Turner anecdotically puts a quote from Steward Brands diary as kid or teen where he articulates his red scare, propelled by US propaganda we can suppose. Which brings us to the sacred image of individuality with these people.
Dieter Mersch, a German scholar said there are two camps in cybernetics: cybernetics as control tool for stability (of a system) or as bearers of emergence, of novelity (creative camp, counter culture strand).
What is introduced by cybernetics is very interesting as it also deals with question of the real and the symbolic. To this day I'm fascinated by it's operative rigor that we can see and also by the question what is a system, do we know if it is a system or do these people just treat is as system (and somehow successfully), what does this mean in general for humans, how much "truth" is in cybernetics and where are the limits of it as epistemology and its operative execution?

The article I was quoting https://coilsoftheserpent.org/2020/07/deleuze-beyond-deleuze-thought-outside-cybernetics/ from is about Deleuzes short text "Postcript in Societies of control" where Deluze writes that the dividual, pretty much a datafied individual in a sense, what you pointed out by consumer gadgets etc collecting data is creating dividuals, I lately read an article in online advertisement and dividuality, quite interesting.

But in the end, and you pointed to that issue already, it's a question of politics and sociality which is not solely a question of technology and definitely not solved by technology. What might going on is a depolitization: technology as replacement for politics...technology will solve the problem. Evgeny Morozow termed that ideology solutionism.

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Please see my above remarks. We are not talking about addressing racism at this point. We are talking about pure cargo culting and whole world must be muricaism at this point. No dude, not one single one of the fucking countries you just mentioned has cops shooting thousands of people a year. You do not have German police shooting black people in the back of the head. You may have racism, sure. But it's not your problem. These are not your problems. You are viewing it through this twisted lens of American corporate media and all the retards spouting domestic kulturkampf online. Seriously you may as well just take Turkish Cypriot issues or Brasilian domestic issues to be your own at that point. Adopting the stance of some faction or ideological trashcan here is basically retarded no matter how honest your intentions may be. It's like watching these foreigners parading around with Confederate flag patches or something. You just look and wonder what the hell.

>>54410
BLM is ultimately not a police brutality movement at this point. It is a racially motivated racial solidarity movement. It's not that I think they're wrong or don't support them necessarily, but I know full well if I got shot by the cops a number of these assholes would just stand there thinking "GOOD now you know wut it feels like whitey." I'm not talking about the reasonable people. I mean who the media is pushing so it can be a source of discord rather than uniting people in the country around the fact our policy is shit, and our policing is shit partly out of design because they recruit shit people fire or force out the not-shit people and all the while expect cops to deal with shit like medical issues or mental health issues that isn't their fucking jobs.

You will notice I said "our." That is because OUR policing is OUR problem. No you don't fucking have anything like this in your countries Germany boy. I'm not even black and yeah am I going to get gunned down by cops for something stupid like talking on my cell phone does go through my mind. I can absolutely guranfucking tee you that you have never walked around your streets with a sincere fear the cops will murder you. I have. Our police is our systemic problem. Race has been baked into that and is part of our complex deeply ingrained shitty history and shitty problems. Frankly I disdain the whole obsession with race at all and cringe when I see our racial politics imported elsewhere, probably encouraged because it ensures division within the masses.

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Oppression and financial exploitation aren't the same and yes that is exactly what murica saw opportunity to do to Russia after USSR fell. Also pretty cringe because McDonalds is fucking disgusting and I know that dubious slop somehow became associated as bourgeois right of passage or something. I think it would be a lot cooler to open underground franchises under USSR and particularly hip Russians only could eat the burger after saying the password like culinary speakeasies. Yeah that I'd do.

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>this aura of wisdom and deep knowledge that the ancients supposedly had

I think you misunderstand this as a new age alternative, this is not about bringing le real wisdom to viewers. Mohaghegh is a literature scholar his work especially this (Philosophy After Dark) and Omnicide are both conceptual (and this means literature and philosophy) and poetic as Robin Mackay said in the second link (Soundcloud). I think you mistake some philosophical-poetic yes he decided to mix this together, it can be done, after all this book does not get published in a XXX University Press work that is born out of (scholarly) interest of the Arabic speaking space and its history and culture for some deep spiritual insights. Of course, enchantment plays a role here, which is what I think bothers you. But enchantment is made obvious and both gone through in its function and as a concept, which I think new agism is would never do since it promises to connect to the cosmos in a direct link, there is no meta to be found in new agism, whereas Mohaghegh work does make it clear right from the beginning, while there is some ambivalence to it, of course, I think that is fruitful in making you think(R). Mohagheghs book that is discussed in that interview deals with the night and its entanglement with literature, so in what way does the night appear in (arabic) literature and instead of doing plain literature analysis of motives (which he also does e.g. criminality, secrecy) and what belongs to all of this, he extends it via ponderings of what effects the night has, what the night does to people, he does so by tracing certain archetypes or figures and their nights. This is quite a valid way to engage with a phenomenon. Basically, the night is conceptualized with Arabic literature as foil and as style. What separates it from pure analysis is the style, but this book does so with explicit intend, as I said it mixes analysis with poetics. If you don't like poetics or think poetics of other cultures are stupid then that is fine, but that is something different than your initial attack. And btw: the night and its importance in literature and as a natural, sensorial, and aesthetic phenomenon is also thought of in the west and probably all other cultures, in varying degrees, with perhaps sometimes overlapping thoughts and feels. Since he packs it with poetics, you think this is another new age sentiment that chooses the middle east instead of southeast Asia. I think it is perfectly fine to contrast the concept of the mystic as he developed it with predominant Instagram spiritualism in the US, as it underlines the notion of (apolitical) dedication of the mystic figure. What to make of it is another question, Mohaghegh is not a self help guru but a literature scholar and while he uses a poetic style, he is concerned with analysis and conceptualizations, not the path to self-fulfillment.
Speaking of ignorance this one got displayed. Mind you, what the interviewer has to say about the USSR or marxism and its conceptualizations throughout history was never of any concern, the object was the conceptualization of the figure of the mystic. I suppose you are the USSR autist, Mohaghegh is an autist as well, he just has another field of interest.