The Great Reset leftist takes

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Straight up stole this from Jeff's Twit..



PARRHESIA - Now more important than ever.

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What do the above two posts have to do with the thread topic? A youtube video screencap, and a conspiracy narrative story, complete with the obligatory collage containing "all the usual suspects."

I'm just saying, if it is going to be like that, why not just call the thread "the great reset," and make it all great reset advertising, all the time? Then people who post perspectives from the left won't get confused, and think the thread is really about what it says in the title.

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I mean, if the title of the topic is "great reset leftist takes," you might think that it is supposed to be an indication of actual analysis from the left.

Left analysis would probably look at other technocratic projects, analyze the utopian dreams and pot o' gold chasing fantasies through the slogans and promotional materials used, analyzing both the media of mass culture acceptances, and the media of mass culture rejections of the great reset with the same analytic framework. Maybe projects and slogans like "great leap forward" and "permanent revolution." Or "better living through chemistry."

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The idea being that the "polarized debate" around the great reset is attractive, and cannot generate enough charge or spark of momentum leading away from the steady march of mass production's planetary destruction.

So analysis from the left would present a view through a framework outside of the mass cultural debate, so naturally unattractive to it. The friction between the debate and the analysis has enough charge to not only motivate, but gives the momentum a clear trajectory.

The trajectory being not "taking over the factories," but taking control of the laws of mass production. So maybe instead of fighting so hard to change the laws of class and economy, putting caps on everything that can just as easily be taken off, the left can remember what they are actually up to. And maybe when they get back to work, it will be always in discovering or uncovering the very real limits of mass production, wherever it may be found.

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So maybe we could consider mass culture media as a market that functions through the economy of attention. Attention economy works well, because attention to everything else must attenuate to notice it, or it can simply be given entirely over to the media, like in the still bedazzlement of film product that calls to the consumer's eyes, ears, refined sensibilities, and unrefined tastes to "take it in," or "just let it wash over you."

Also economy of attention in that all mass media is in competition for your attention, and whatever attention you pay can never be returned.

Then we might consider mass production to function through economy of time. You must spend time to produce mass. So now "saving time" is the opposite of mass production.

Only saved time earns interest for living bodies, and your spent time is the only "saved time" for mass production. And the "economy of mass production" and the economy of time become essentially the same for both mass production and living body production.

As well the attention economy becomes essentially the same as the economy of thought in both mass culture and consumer reproduction.

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So saying, that great reset competes in the arena of the attention economy, where attention is "time well spent," or "time wasted," depending on your moods and desires. So it becomes a matter not of "short attention spans," but not shorting your attention-spanning abilities.

Mass production competes in the arena of the time economy, where time is "attention to detail," or "absent-mindedness," depending on where you are and what you are doing. So it becomes a matter not of "what have you been doing with your time," but how much thought you put into it while you did it.

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Tying thoughts on mmt to the great reset, from a leftist take.

Great reset comes on from the centrist consensus. Politically, in America, what is known as the mainstream left. The right now identfies as the alternative. But they switch around every decade or so, because really they are both the mainstream.

If the right were in ascendency, Great Reset would come out with the gloves off, a fascist march like you have never seen.

But that is not leftist take on the great reset. From the left, we know that with the centrist consensus, or mainstream left in ascendency, Great Reset is coming out with the gloves off, a totalitarian march like you have never seen. And we've seen some big ones before.

So Great Reset is a mainstream creation, marketed as left wing, against right wing. It actually has no way of addressing criticism from the left, but doesn't have to, because the left is already barred from participating in the brouhaha.

Which brings us to mmt. It is also a product of the centrist consensus, called mainstream left. As Jack went to great lengths to clarify, making sure we understood, it is designed to compare lightning rods with the right wing. We'll leave the imagery that conjures to you.

As it was designed for use in debate wiith the right wing, mmt has no way to handle criticism from the left. The language does not come with the tools necessary to defend itself, forcing it to rely on a"zero tolerance" policy on criticism from the left. We end up with the funny optics of mmt saying "it isn't fun to be hungry, sick or homeless," while at the same time trashing on the left, where many of these same hungry, sick and homeless people can certainly be found, on the political spectrum.

Trashing them. They don't like our lawful work scheme, because they are lazy. You know, get with the program, or "have fun being poor."

We do have more fun, actually. It's an open secret. But that is clearly directed at the left. All the mmt language was designed for academic debate with the right wing, all that is left over is the social media language of platitudyality.

But the platitudes, being platitudes, are not meant for debate or analysis. They are just the only response mmt can muster against the left. The zero tolerance policy is the only strategy that mmt has for protecting itself from criticism from the left, which looks in practice similar to the way the mainstream left is called "brainwashed," or "sheep," by the right wing, which is the current alternative. One gets the feeling that the mmt would use the same words for the left, if the right hadn't already bought the intellectual property.

The point of all this being, mmt is the perfect companion theory for Great Reset.

[stickdog99]