emsemioverse

Word Salad

Zen fascism

californication

self as erotic savior-slave in crisis settlerism

there are constitutive contradictions in liberalism

• i.e. universalism and individualism
• stress (i.e. crisis, Collapse) exposes them

this creates the Liberalism Legitimacy Crisis:

• as these contradictions intensify, liberalism loses credibility|validity as an ideological system.
  • it can't produce the resolutions it promises
  • so it shifts to promising regulation
  • see Foucault

California as projection zone: California Gold Rush, Misiones Californianas (the Patronato Real of California), psychedelic revolution, Hollywood, Esalen Institute, techno-utopianism

californication is a process of responding to systemic contradictions by performing personal coherence?

• doesn't address structural tension
• processes it as a material to be commodified
  • aesthetic, affect
  • Brian Wilson (and the Barenaked Ladies song)
  • Valley of the Dolls
  • On the Road
• californication as genre scripting: genre structures expectation (Lauren Berlant)
• platformal liberalism induces californication as the dominant genre of contradiction management
  • crisis is trauma, mood, healing
  • MASH television show, Red Hot Chili Peppers, skateboarding
• cybernetic settlerism, cybernetic subject
  • you change the world by how you route events into mood, not with your beliefs or action (which come from mood)
    • Calm app, Burning Man, lifehacking, microdosing

Zen

• don't fear Collapse: be serene
• detachment
  • nonreactivity
  • Apple advertisement (1984 novel)
  • Starfleet and San Fransisco (Misiones Fransiscanas?)
  • ayahuasca entrepreneurism
  • stoicism, in late-season MASH
  • eroticization of detachment
    • crisis is desireable:
      • source of good affect, source of good life
      • crisis is the source of healing, spiritual growth, betterment of self
      • liberation requires crisis, you aren't doing anything if you aren't in crisis
      • (society, people, etc., need to be broken down)