Josh’s main move in his work online is, seemingly, to look at something politically interesting and then to steer all the way through it without having a single emotional reaction. It makes some sense that his political project would identify the people having too many feelings as the problem.
🔥 "Major American cities now teem with educated young people whose political avowals coincide perfectly with, are wholly redundant to, existing billionaire-regime priorities"
I think at heart he's still just a member of the laptop class, however much he wants to be a Pragmatic Political Figure. Which means he can only conceive of politics as something with an easy technocratic solution, which is why the idea of Amazon World is appealing to him. It's so clear that he just read People's Republic of Walmart and didn't think about the issues discussed there any further, just thought, "Oh, sweet, i can keep living my nice life if we solve things by doing [extremely shallow interpretation of the book]".
I know anyone quoting angelicism is a half-wit, glad we could get that out of the way early in the piece… “optimism of the will.” “I used to go to the mall.” Jesus Christ.
Incredible political imagination on that citarella lol
Josh’s main move in his work online is, seemingly, to look at something politically interesting and then to steer all the way through it without having a single emotional reaction. It makes some sense that his political project would identify the people having too many feelings as the problem.
When you're trolling/in a flame war, the first one to react emotionally loses. I wonder if that's the practice that laid the foundation...
Please tell me this event was recorded for posterity???
🔥 "Major American cities now teem with educated young people whose political avowals coincide perfectly with, are wholly redundant to, existing billionaire-regime priorities"
At the risk of lapsing into the kind of meme-based pseudo-politics which leads to this kind of shitshow: don't trust anyone with a podcast.
Thank you leaving comments open.
lol
god finally someone gets at what annoys me about citarella
I think at heart he's still just a member of the laptop class, however much he wants to be a Pragmatic Political Figure. Which means he can only conceive of politics as something with an easy technocratic solution, which is why the idea of Amazon World is appealing to him. It's so clear that he just read People's Republic of Walmart and didn't think about the issues discussed there any further, just thought, "Oh, sweet, i can keep living my nice life if we solve things by doing [extremely shallow interpretation of the book]".
Meme discourse is hollow and dumb, what's new?
I’ve only recently “discovered” josh citarella and do enjoy some of his takes. He strikes me as a more mainstream dem supporter than anything else.
I know anyone quoting angelicism is a half-wit, glad we could get that out of the way early in the piece… “optimism of the will.” “I used to go to the mall.” Jesus Christ.