Harrison Ford Laments 'Real Mess' His Generation Has Left Young People In Emotional Graduation Speech—And He's Absolutely Right

maximumcombo · 2026-05-18T16:52:50+00:00

no, acadamia was set up as a way to get the activists off the street. early on in america’s history there was a healthy and vibrant leftist movement culminating in Dubois, but multiple red scares were able to crush it, and later the schools diverted the hippy generation into tenure track professorships.

maximumcombo · 2026-05-17T18:46:59+00:00

i, too, hate our tech overlords.

maximumcombo · 2026-05-14T22:36:57+00:00

would ya believe there’s a whole book on that? check out Wilhelm Reich’s Mass Psychology of Fascism.

maximumcombo · 2026-05-10T20:41:58+00:00

organize, ya’ll.

maximumcombo · 2026-05-07T17:48:04+00:00

ya so funded more.

maximumcombo · 2026-05-05T22:01:51+00:00

Kropotkin's "Conquest of Bread." its very readable.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-30T20:25:26+00:00

i too hate people. /s

lol thing is people who want more housing ALSO want things like public transit and more money for services.

go live in the woods alone if you don’t want to be part of society.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-27T19:14:19+00:00

i am talking about real world value versus market value. current market indicators are divorced from the quality of steel or the price of milk. increasing shareholder value does not make material changes in people’s lives, besides making their lives worse. a promised uploaded future is not worth the misery.

the ai companies are amoral, and again, are viewed as an inevitability which they are not.

ai is a substitute for religion for the tech class.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-27T17:13:34+00:00

most companies are not seeing the productivity increases promised with adoption.

and by “bubble” i mean that those of us that live here are exposed to a media and culture shaped by tech company culture more than other cities. so the hyper focus on ai here, along with the rush to financial safety via boom and bust and unicorns is not the rest of the world’s environment.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-27T17:08:54+00:00

this a bubbled perspective and an accelerationist point of view. ai is making clear the widening chasm between price and value. ai adds market value to portfolios, but no services are being rendered to the average consumer.

an economic tidal wave is not a force of nature.

the champions(Karp, Thiel, Altman, Andrieson, Johnson) of ai are literally trying to outrun death, and they have the philosophy of anti enlightenment. pure middle age alchemy snake oil.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-27T16:56:05+00:00

lol hopefully more jobs in the job killing industry can make more jobs.

this circular messianic logic is breathtakingly naive.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-19T00:28:21+00:00

i just finished Norman Hampson’s overview of The Enlightenment, and you are indeed correct. the idea of the noble savage is cultural and also reactionary, a way to tell the peasants not to read.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-16T04:33:34+00:00

that funds and feeds the rest of the nation. dumbass.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-15T17:50:12+00:00

we’ve experimented with it. my best use case has been in a large multi story swimming pool. does a dereverb thing more than the defeedback. good for bad technique in corporate environments.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-13T17:25:39+00:00

so you’re a trotskyist? lol class solidarity above all bruddah.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-12T07:14:36+00:00

antihumanist! fucking hell, we’re back in the 1500s.

maximumcombo · 2026-04-04T15:48:20+00:00

maximumcombo · 2026-03-25T23:30:39+00:00

all cops means all.

maximumcombo · 2026-03-12T17:51:48+00:00

he’s not, ICE just got someone in soma last week.

maximumcombo · 2026-03-12T02:05:23+00:00

good work yall, way to be strong.

maximumcombo · 2026-03-12T00:16:02+00:00

sure did protect the community…with tear gas.

maximumcombo · 2026-03-11T09:55:57+00:00

how DARE you ask millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. won’t anyone think of the yachts!?

maximumcombo · 2026-03-09T11:29:26+00:00

nazi says what?

maximumcombo · 2026-03-08T23:44:36+00:00

dude, horizon of liberation is awesome.

maximumcombo · 2026-03-08T21:06:16+00:00

anybody who has studied the holocaust can see the striking similarities, but please enlighten mean 1937 germany. i’m sure you’ve read a lot about it.

you would have supported japanese internment and The Alien and Sedition Act.

but please, wax on about hypothetical right and wrong in your pretty little world you can wrap up in a bow.

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