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Rebecca Rose Prentice's avatar

This email belongs in the SCP vaults. Keter class cognitio hazard over here. XD

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This is fantastic and fascinating.

I don't know if it was a real email or if it was written by someone at theory underground as a theory fiction.

Potentially as a self troll, attacking themselves as a delivery vehicle to critique the ridiculousness of the reality distortion of the current election cycle.

So many layers of fantastic potentiality here. Room for so many flights of thought.

I love the apocalyptic imagery evoked by the video and the whole letter.

Very resonant with the book of revelation or Ezekie, the metaphor and fantastical creatures.

I love the dialectical weaving (not necessarily in the Hegelian sense) of cycles of thesis, antithesis synthesis. (Though it would be interesting to re-examine it through Hegelian dialectics of sublation and immanent overcoming)

The emotive drive that "we have to do something" to stop the apocalypse, into sensory and choice overload provoking inactivity through learned helplessness.

Then the dialectic between both, that either action or inaction have no meaninful impact on the future unfolding itself.

It's fascinating how it weaves the dezuzian schizo type lines of flights with the dialectical narrative structure, blending and swapping between both.

This is an incredibly enlightening piece of art.

Its unclear if it is the product of a sane or insane mind. But at this point that distinction is debatable anyway.

I think everyone has to be both part sane and insane to live within the artificial intelligence that is capitalism. To either support it or try overcome it requires a dose of insanity.

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