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"Modern Times" (1936) is an important film in understanding modernity

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Date: July 9th, 2016 12:19 AM
Author: Odious foreskin

the point wasn't just that chaplin was enslaved by those machines in the factory - that would be trite. everyone since william blake's dark satanic mills in the (18)00's had harped on that point, and marx even based an economic system on it.

but he was also FASCINATED and even a bit ENAMORED by the machines. they captivated him. they were cruel and mechanistic, but they were also incredible devices. he wanted to crawl around in them and risk death to explore them.

"modernity" to a large degree is the creation and deployment of systems which are capable of entrancement.

that, too, has been noted a lot, but i would add that the demise of these systems does not "free" people to "return" to their prior selves, or to what would have been their selves in the absence of those systems.

the evidence from recent times is that it actually unmoors and depresses them, and does not cause the spontaneous/organic reformation of things like social ties.

it's more like a bunch of transmission towers whose cables fell down, rising together in an untouching file of monoliths.

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Date: July 9th, 2016 12:21 AM
Author: exhilarant adulterous ladyboy travel guidebook



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Date: July 9th, 2016 12:27 AM
Author: Salmon Embarrassed To The Bone Pistol French Chef

If you really want to watch an interesting movie on what they thought of as "modern" back then watch Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). Ham radio and the ability to travel cross country in 10 days was hot shit. It is comically dated now but very nice.

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Date: July 9th, 2016 12:38 AM
Author: Federal Burgundy Box Office

i love machines

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Date: July 9th, 2016 12:39 AM
Author: rose trip rehab athletic conference



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Date: September 5th, 2026 11:27 PM
Author: Nofapping bbw

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Date: September 6th, 2026 12:08 AM
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Date: September 6th, 2026 11:06 AM
Author: Nofapping bbw

The first 20 minutes were genius but the rest was boring

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Date: September 6th, 2026 11:11 AM
Author: rose trip rehab athletic conference

it's because the machines mirror the mechanical deterministic properties inside of us creating the illusion of a "self" and thus hold a dark fascination, just as seeing a grisly car wreck on the side of the highway does. those mangled meat carcasses could've been you and ultimately ARE you.

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Date: September 6th, 2026 12:22 PM
Author: Orange boyish faggot firefighter gas station

k but it was fine

it was that we had innovative ad hoc systems arranged to preserve QoL and "they" dumped infinity niggers and old ba'al people into the mix to destroy those systems because "they" weren't making enough shekels off of it/finding it easy enough to control

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3279618&forum_id=2#50118970)