I love how cheeky this article is. Had myself some giggles.
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I don't understand why Sarkicism is referenced so heavily. The contents of the logs are ""COMMUNISM SARKICISM SARKIC-MEKHANITE-WAR NUMBERS COMMIES". Two of these things are not like the others. If this was to make fun of them, Sarkicism is already doing that to itself - tell me that The Archegonium and The Cytoplasm don't sound like malevolent entities you would read about in a Sarkicism SCP. The name-drops detract from an otherwise interesting article, making it a below-average Sarkicism article and a resoundingly mediocre Fifthist article.
There are some lines I giggled at: "Make the Guillotines Red with Catsup", "To Bobby Jefferson I Know Youre Readin This", "Alright boys, Im all done here, go ahead and just roll the frog footage for the rest of the page I guess." The Fifthists are charming in their slightly unsettling cosmic horror way, but the Sarkicist piss-taking (which, while commendable) fails to land for me and instead pushes the article into awkward territory with funny bits interspersed with sections where it falters hard.
You could not have made me upvote this article more enthusiastically.
Are the parts about literally eating the bourgeoisie and the tirade against numbers supposed to be weird? Both are things I've seen genuinely and compellingly supported by actual leftists. Dial those entries up a notch and you have my upvote.
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Real people… against… numbers? Like, against the entire concept of numbers? Even basic counting?
*boggles*
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
There are people who claim that eating and drinking are unnecessary to sustain life. People will believe basically anything.
Why do people believe that? I mean, that's a million times weirder than people believing in the Mandela effect ever will be.
Why will people believe "basically anything"? Is there a limit to what people will accept other people believing? Where is that limit? For example, "People don't need to eat or drink" is probably far beyond that limit.
People will believe "basically anything" because anything we couldn't believe would have to be inherent to our cognition. And once it's inherent to the way we think biologically, we don't recognize it as something to think.
Isn't eating and drinking inherent to your cognition? And any other biological process?
Nope! In fact, biological processes are mainly done outside our cognition.
I can believe that I don't need to eat to survive, but I can still become hungry. I can believe hunger is a lie. I can believe that despite feeling hunger, I'm not actually hungry.
Can you give me an example of 'cannot believe something inherent to your cognition'? I don't really understand.
Well, if it can be expressed in language as a phrase, there is the potential to believe it. So, I can't write a sentence that makes sense that one couldn't possibly believe.
However, I can say you can't believe SD($N#398@#$R%, for example.
Oh, so you mean that we cannot believe what is totally incoherent.
Also, I don't think you meant 'inherent to your cognition'
what does that even mean? Was that a 'stupid autocorrect' moment?
Nope, a "stupid explanation" moment.
Basically, if you can hold the thought in your head, it can be believed.
I still don't understand what your original answer meant. What does 'once it's inherent to your biology you can't recognize it' mean, and what was your thought process? This intrigues me.
It's generally part of a larger extreme transcendentalism thing- the idea being that if the world is an illusion, so are personal needs.
Well, not THAT extreme. But there is a general strain of thought in which elaborate mathematics and precise quantification lend themselves towards analyzing and controlling a populace, rather than providing for And liberating it. Modern time measurement in particular has come under heavy fire.
The point is, this gets close enough to real leftist theory that it reads less as "wacky" and more "misguided." And that's no fun.
The cannibalism excerpt, meanwhile, is just plain good praxis.
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I love the one about math being CotBG propaganda.
Poe's Law there: I facepalmed a couple years back when a member of my state's congress declared that teaching critical thinking skills was subversive because it made people question what they were told by their elders and authority figures.
Yeah. How terrible. XD
Pi was briefly set to '3' in my state.
If you mean Bill #246 of the 1897 Indiana General Assembly it was never passed, as it failed in the Senate. It is also is a misnomer to say that its defined pi as three, it wasn't principally concerned with a definition for pi at all, instead it attempted to square the circle, one consequence was that pi would be 3.2.
So if super-communism is anomalous, does this mean regular communism is semi-anomalous?
+1
Are all lizards semi-anomalous? All statues? Everyone who's ever held a camera?
Upvoted for Celebration "Big Cheese" Horace, but I do have a question.
This article states the effect pertains to printed periodicals. Does this specifically exclude digital? Could the downfall of the printed periodical be an effect or aim of containment efforts?
I'm lukewarm on this. I'm one to pepper my SCPs with references to other groups and articles, but I try to make sure the substance underneath is enough to work without relying on "oh hey, it's those guys!"
But when you look under all of that here, all you have is some kinda spooky letters about eating the rich and supporting a regime of flesh monsters for ideological reasons, the latter of which is conveyed more through proper nouns that tell us nothing than what would be evocative and cool.
The line about 'sitting around with no clear bodily orientation' is the kind of casual creepy-clever I want more of from this SCP. That and the whole bit with the frog footage, which made me chuckle.
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