i turned down a job offer in the middle of an interview this monday because the interviewer enthusiastically mentionned that in this company, they control the opening of the rooms and the AC and lights with their smartphones. It gave me such bad vibes, seing as it’s one of those things i am firmly against (”the internet of things!”)

also the place had an all over evil vibe, like each step in the stairs indicates the number of calories burnt when people use it ?

the interviewers were super nice overall but i knew working there would eventually lead me to having a mental breakdown in the following months

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stonebutchreds:

Honestly if your response to “I dont have many skills that would be useful in a post-capitalist society” is “so I guess I’ll just be pursuing my intellectual hobbies as my contribution to my community” instead of “so I guess I’ll be doing dishes in the cafeteria/janitorial work/manual labor” you should really reconsider how you come at the very concept of work and society as a leftist. Is socialism no longer appealing if you have to do the work you previously took for granted? Is the liberation of the proletariat not worth it if you have to contribute something besides your dream job in academia or leading support groups? Are you really “too good” for “that type” of work, even if it is for a world where no one starves?

we will still have hobbies/run d&d/learn other languages under socialism - in fact, we would likely have far more time to pursue them than under capitalism - but when we think of our future labor, we ought to consider the “menial” tasks that keep society running; loading boxes onto trucks, cooking in a factory kitchen, packaging medical supplies for distribution, building new homes as a worker and not an architect. these jobs will never disappear, and to assume that someone else will do them while you lead workshops or go to school to become a trained professional is to announce your continuing loyalty to petite bourgeois ethics. The dream of socialism is not a fantasy where you continue to do the exact same thing you want to do under capitalism, but now with a clear conscience about it. It’s to build a better world as one global movement, to lift up the most oppressed and downtrodden from the muck; a task which requires, above all else, heavy and thankless work that we must be prepared and happy to undertake if we ever hope to succeed.

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semperintrepida:

[Catullus] studied and imitated the Greek lyric poets, transformed Greek meters for Latin phonetics, and translated texts of Sappho and Callimachus into fresh Roman masterpieces. But his main energy was rebellious. The staid surface of Roman poetry bored him. He broke that apart. Conventional pieties made him impatient. He defaced them. His poetic style juxtaposes crudeness on the level of graffiti (in poems of invective) with psychic autopsy as delicate as Sappho’s (in poems of love). He changed the diction of lyric verse, admitting words like lotum (“piss”) and defututa (“fucked to bits”). He changed the whole velocity of the poetic task of telling it like it is, whatever it is—he speeded up the surface. He died at thirty.

—Anne Carson, “The Sheer Velocity and Ephemerality of Cy Twombly”

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