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Rise up and demand a fairer world, a more sustainable world, a world we can be proud of.Halo had over 5000 dialogue snippets in it, Halo 2 had 15,000. Industrialisation creates ruthless exploitation, but also the tools needed to escape a world of scarcity. I feel powerless, because I am, but not for long. Where are the chinks in its armour? Its hard to know how to resist. I guess I just feel like capitalism is so vast and sophisticated, its hard to know how to attack it.

We won't be judged by our words, we'll be judged by our praxis. We need to insert cultural revolutionary ideas into our everyday lives. The revolution will be made on the dance-floor, on the streets, in the pubs. The next revolution won't be organised on the factory floor or in the offices of a 'revolutionary' political party. The proletariat no longer exists, or if it does it exists in a radically different form. Affect concrete change rather than symbolic disruptions. Maybe we need to find innovative modes of resistance. Ideology is sinister and omnipresent.ĭoes the economy work for us, or do we work for the economy? There are people floating across the Med on rafts, the president of the USA is fucking insane, China is a totalitarian nightmare, and we're truly fucked. I worry that we're involved only in minor disruptions to hegemony. We make tiny aggressions out of thin air and discuss them endlessly, but that's not enough. Our entire lives are subject to the whims of capital.

Leisure is completely reified to the point where labour is self-justifying. The post-industrial pattern remains regimented, tied to its Fordist roots, but the veneer of productivity has worn thin. The structural nature of relations demands that labour power is bought for less than its worth creating a surplus. What looks like an exchange of equivalence is actually systemic exploitation. The centre ground has shifted so far to the right that what should truly be considered centre-left social democratic projects are considered radical. A far right economic ideology has been common-sensified to the extent where members of the public don't even discuss it. The fact we're offered a small state or a large state but neo-liberal capitalism is a given. (A monster is looming over us!) I guess what I'm worried about is the hegemonic state of neo-liberalism.