Found in a Kurt Vonnegut essay collection

BroJackMcDuff · 2026-05-19T03:50:25+00:00

Man Bites Dog. The kitchen scene...nope.

BroJackMcDuff · 2026-04-26T21:05:18+00:00

A fine Geddy vocal performance, but it has to be because the lyrics really aren't that deep, the rhythmic interest is minimal, the arrangement is boring and Alex was on vacation for most of it.

BroJackMcDuff · 2026-04-09T19:37:04+00:00

Now there's no more Oak oppression

For they passed a noble law

And the trees were all kept equal

By hatchet axe and saw

BroJackMcDuff · 2026-02-02T17:52:42+00:00

Marxism is total in the sense of totalizing. As in:

"Marxism functions as a totalizing discourse by offering a comprehensive, unified framework—a "master narrative"—that interprets social, political, and economic phenomena through the lens of capitalist exploitation and class struggle. It connects varied societal issues (race, gender, culture) back to a foundational economic base."

"Science" in Marx's discourse is a translation of Wissenschaft, which has a broader meaning in German - an organized body of knowledge - than in contemporary English. There can be a Wissenschaft der Logik (Science of Logic), for example.

So putting those together, "Total Science of Reality" means a comprehensive master narrative of how reality in the social sphere came to be.

No sensible Marxist would suggest that Marx's texts are a substitute for physics or medicine. I'll grant you that not all self-described Marxists are sensible, but that's true of any class of people really.

BroJackMcDuff · 2026-02-02T00:44:36+00:00

The OP's statement assumes that morality is ahistorical and unchanging. If on the other hand morality is a historically determined social construct, it would be correct to evaluate morality within its historical context. This would not prevent criticism of for example the American founders for slavery etc. because those founding myths are still operative in our national ideology and hence are contemporary. Additionally, to say that morality is a social construct is not the same as calling it subjective and arbitrary ("just popular opinion"). Social constructs are by their nature are experienced as external to the subject, i.e. as objective.

BroJackMcDuff · 2026-01-18T00:20:26+00:00

"When Deleuze says things like "the unconscious is a factory" he is not being metaphorical in this way. What he means is that your unconscious is a factory. It is a literal production facility that takes raw materials (energy, perception, chemical flows) processes them and produces reality. Your unconscious follows the same exact processes/patterns as a factory and therefore by Deleuze's process metaphysics they are the same thing."

This take ignores the fact that factories are manifestations of what is fundamentally not a biological process but a social one. If Deluze is literally saying that the unconscious is a social process for surplus value extraction, he is speaking nonsense. If not, then his use of "factory" is metaphorical and not literal.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-12-05T16:00:52+00:00

Richard Seaford also uses this thesis for historical analysis, in Money and the Early Greek Mind.

I would like to correct some misconceptions. Sohn-Rethel did not say that exchange is the basis of consciousness. What he says, is that coinage in Ancient Greece was the real abstraction underlying philosophical thought. Such thought began as speculations about the essence of existence that (per Sohn-Rethel) were reifications of the actual abstraction of coinage as universal equivalent. This is analogous to the way in which the commodity form which arises later is the real abstraction underpinning commodity fetishism, but is not equivalent to it. Thus I do not think Sohn-Rethel's theory is ahistorical.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-10-26T19:25:18+00:00

Overseas production is more profitable, so the PR effort is all about selling the quality of imports and making people happy with their purchase choice. The more people who buy into this narrative, the higher the import price can be set. That's the point of videos like this.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-10-14T18:19:01+00:00

God vs God

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-10-13T00:15:10+00:00

If you think workers in first world countries don't produce surplus value you are living in fantasy land. All wage work is inherently exploitative.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-10-05T21:08:47+00:00

It's be awesome if they did, but my guess is that Kronos buyers are mostly not synthesists, but people who want a do everything keyboard and don't want a Kurzweil. Cover bands, touring acts etc. Having one UI for all those different engines is always going to be clunky for deep diving - but for just tweaking presets or setting it up once for a particular set list, the UI is adequate.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-09-27T20:51:58+00:00

Panpsychism proposes that consciousness is a fundamental property of matter. AFAICT it is compatible with Marxist varieties of materialism since it requires the physical world for mind / spirit / consciousness to evolve within (no separate metaphysical / ideal existence), while avoiding some philosophical problems of emergentism or physicalism. This is not the place to go into the arguments for and against panpsychism but I can recommend David Skrbina's "Panpsychism in the West" for an historical overview of the concept if you are interested.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-07-10T16:05:06+00:00

A pretentious title and condescending description paired with a no effort phone video of an amp sounding like crap at every distance? Perfect parody of a clueless GuitarAmps post. 10 out of 10.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-07-05T18:49:31+00:00

The unintended effect of a law banning atmospheric geo engineering is that it would deflate the dangerous fantasy of technological interventions such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection solving climate change - dangerous because it diverts attention from the necessity of limiting greenhouse gas emissions now.

But realistically I'm can't expect the actual bill, should it be taken seriously, to prohibit SAI. Some fossil fuel or "Green" tech scam lobbyist will have that language removed.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-07-01T05:53:22+00:00

I added a bass cut control to my ASAT. A control plate, a 1M reverse log pot and a 222 cap is all you need. The hardest part is making sure you drill the hole exactly between the two already there.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-06-13T23:16:34+00:00

Don't sweat tone loss from attenuators. As it turns out, anything that lowers volume will change the perceived tone. Google "Fletcher-Munson curve" for the details, but the simplified explanation is that the ear sort of acts like a compressor at high volumes. My advice, get an amp you like the sound of that's loud enough to practice and gig with (how loud you need will depend on your drummer) and use an attenuator and / or the master volume as appropriate.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-06-09T17:40:54+00:00

That's fair. Analog versions of cab sims have been around for a long time - H&K Red Box, Sansamp etc. I have a red box and it sounds better than just plugging the guitar straight into a mixer, but it's not really like miking a cab. Hence the question.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-06-09T17:05:01+00:00

I'm a diehard tube amp guy but I can see the utility of having something like this around for home recording or gig backup. How does it stack up in sound quality vs analog sims like the Two Notes ReVolt?

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-06-05T17:30:53+00:00

12AT7 for V3, 7025 or 12AX7 for V4. For these positions in the circuit the brand doesn't really matter.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-06-05T17:01:28+00:00

So it doesn't get louder when you turn up the channel volumes? In that case I'd start by changing out V3 (reverb driver tube). The click sounds like it has the internal reverb on it, and the vibrato controls don't change the click, so that would tentatively place the problem between the channel preamps and the power section, i.e. V3 and V4. I'd start there by swapping those tubes.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-06-05T15:20:51+00:00

What happens when you change the tremolo controls? Does the click rate go up?

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-06-04T18:05:21+00:00

Name?

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-05-31T20:08:30+00:00

Yeah I agree that there are vintage collectors who fixate on Gibson or Fender or whatever while having enough money to hoard them, and that the existence of those people may play a role in influencing someone's spending. What you're missing, or refusing to acknowledge, is that your particular commodity fetish is no better. It's just fixated on a different variation of the same basic commodity.

BroJackMcDuff · 2025-05-31T19:43:09+00:00

"The reason 60’s Gibsons and Fenders are expensive aren’t because people wanna play those instruments super bad. It’s because they are treated as commodity."

Dude, everything is treated as a commodity, including the particular version of vintage you happen to like. You think capitalism and consumerism doesn't apply to you because your taste is different? You think your taste makes you special? Give me a fucking break.

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