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we're making flight mechs hooked into our nervous systems that shoot fucking demonic eye fireballs at mach 3 and you have the gall to tell me the world isn't anime as fuck

it's the ghost in the machine talking to the monkey in the man, and brother, it's startin' to rain

so; if you make a machine that can reliably induce these positive feelings of abstracted social reaction, you can make someone fall in love with an abstract formless algorithm about as reliably as someone can on online dating apps, except they're hyperreal and not subject to the same limitations

because we've abstracted social relations to digital interactions, and because the brain is adaptive and clever, we've together hypnotised monkey brain into accepting positive feelings from internet interactions (often) in place of normal human social signs

sitting around, tapping bit on screen and feeling vibration aspect of life; they're used to you looking mans in the eye and also looking at their posture and their demeanour and thinking about your social ties with them and how they smell to understand whether you gotta run a mile or hug it out

communication, friendship and companionship has been completely abstracted since fucking usenet started. however, only recently has that been the _default_ state of human interaction, for most people, most of the time.
our like, social functioning monkey brains, they don't really get this whole

what's happening here is _postmodernism_
or I guess, more accurately, Baudrillardian simulacras coming back to bite us in the ass, combined with the weird evolutionary neural soup we entirely rely upon to function.
"fox, are you on drugs"
yes; but hear me out

in capitalist west you must pay someone to help you do introspection, because you are individual

my new electropop outfit "squid cynicism" with our new single "liberal games"

😭

fuck it
Steins;Gate mode engaged
we're going back for her

_whoops_

anyway, I hear all of my planets are receiving The Consequences of My Actions and I should probably go try and sort that out