People often ask why I use the hashtag #deathcult so much. It’s provocative, yes, but it’s not just for shock value. Without discomfort, we won’t challenge the system we’re still living inside https://hamishcampbell.com/without-discomfort-we-wont-challenge-the-roots-of-the-system-were-still-living-inside/
Don’t be a prat, please try and recognize the roots of issues. This kind of derangement isn’t just stupid, it’s systemically useful to the #deathcult https://hamishcampbell.com/dont-be-a-prat-please-try-and-recognize-the-roots-of-issues/
Don’t be a prat, please try and recognize the roots of issues
Horizontal people always get fucked over by vertical people. This is normal, why? Because horizontals give away power to build social fabric, while verticals hoard and concentrate power to extract and dominate. Every. Single. Time. And the only thing that makes horizontals work, in the face of such mess making, is shared worldview, which we currently lack. Instead, we’ve got swarms of #stupidindividualism, where everyone thinks they’re the centre of the universe, interpreting […]https://hamishcampbell.com/dont-be-a-prat-please-try-and-recognize-the-roots-of-issues/
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I use the tag #TheyreTryingToKillEverybody to track posts like this.
I've tagged more than a few. #GOP #DeathCult
The MAGA #deathcult marches on.
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IAN ASTBURY and BILLY DUFFY Announce Two Intimate DEATH CULT U.S. Shows Ahead Of 'Cruel World' Festival Appearance
In the #openweb and #Fediverse spaces, it's worth remembering: Many people only value things once they’re validated by #mainstreaming sources. This is narrow, blinded behaviour — the kind that keeps the #deathcult fed.
If you only see value through the lens of #dotcons algorithms, you’re missing 90% of what actually matters.
A lot of the “famous” people in #mainstreaming — even on alt spaces — are assholes. Not because fame makes you bad, but because climbing the algorithm's ladder requires selfishness, ego, and conformity.
On alt platforms, sure, we have "our" assholes, that's life. But our assholes can be challenged, mediated, and composted into something better. On the #mainstreaming side? They're more shit on the corporate pile.
Please, don't bow down to them. Stay critical. Stay rooted. Keep your shovel handy.
The Seagull Knows: Notes on a Constipated Discipline
The opening moment of the workshop on Methodological Strategies for Real-Life Theorising was unintentionally profound. A story of a seagull crieing above the glass façade of the Blavatnik School of Government. A temple to the #deathcult that shaped our lives for the last 40 years of #neoliberal change and shaping. In hindsight, that seagull metaphor may have been the wisest participant at the event.The sessions that followed offered a painful reminder of just how entrenched and constipated […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-seagull-knows-notes-on-a-constipated-discipline/
Over the course of my adult life, I have on multiple occasions had borderline nasty arguments with people who excuse climate crisis inaction by stating confidently and emphatically that "we" don't care about climate crisis. The trick there is to ask "who is "we" in this scenario?" Reactionary billionaires don't care, and neither do the governments or for-profit media outlets they own; but everyday people increasingly living in the fallout of an unfolding climate catastrophe certainly care - and polling has been bearing that out for over a decade or two now. This is particularly magnified if you study opinions about climate crisis and the need for action on a global scale instead of just in the so-called West, as a recent study reveals:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/89-climate-majority
The 89%: New Media Collaboration Calls Attention to 'Climate Change's Silent Majority'
"Another potential consequence of making the 89% aware of each other is making them aware of the extent to which their political leaders are failing to represent them.
Pope anticipated the coverage might prompt readers to think: "Maybe we should all start questioning our elected officials more. Why aren't you taking climate into account? If we all believe in this, why aren't you doing this?"
The 89% Project is global in scope—and Pope said it was not motivated by the victory of climate-denying President Donald Trump in the November 2024 U.S. election."
Look, I'm all for a global project to speak the reality that humanity as a whole is worried about, and wants solutions to the climate crisis and our boiling world. By that same measure however, I don't think any analysis that doesn't incorporate the reality that our ruling classes and the institutions they own are absolutely planning on running the species right off the ecological cliff while claiming it's our fault because we didn't want change hard enough or something, can truly be considered complete. These people mean to kill you and your children for five pennies a share and they're more or less openly admitting it now; signing up all the progressive media orgs and the one corporate outlet that does take climate crisis seriously to talk more about why humanity *does* care about climate crisis, isn't going to change the fact that the guys who own everything know, and have picked genocide over surrendering the capitalism that's killing us.
With all that having been noted however, I still support this discussion for the same reason I'm sharing this article with you; it's important to understand that literally 89% of the people on the planet do *not* support going gently into that good night so billionaire nazis can keep doing capitalism. I'm not a mathematician, but I'm pretty confident that 89% of roughly 8 billion people is more than enough people power to overthrow a capitalist order controlled by less than 4,000 billionaires. The question then becomes, how bad does that 89% want to solve this life or death crisis? And how long will they wait before they accept that the ruling class isn't going to do anything to mitigate climate catastrophe, but is rather building out fascist police states, curtailing our civil rights, and hardening borders to stop us, that 89%, from doing anything about the shallow graves they intend to lay billions of us in for the money god?
For all our sake, let's hope the answer isn't "too long."
Edit: I absolutely promised myself to start including archived links to stories because I strongly suspect fascists are going to end or otherwise censor media they don't like eventually. So here's the one I forgot in this post: https://archive.ph/8e3E9
Remember the "lock her up" campaign against "crooked" Hillary Clinton for using a personal email server for work related communications? I wonder how the brain damaged Maga schizoids will find excuses for the complete pig's breakfast that Hegseth has made with Signalgate sending sensitive state secrets directly to friends and family? How are they going to excuse their cult leader who is incabable of making any mistakes? I'll tell you how, they won't, because they don't care about integrity. They don't even know the meaning of the word. It's not even part of their 500 word newspeak vocabulary.
From unstoppable slop, to #enshittification the #FT on the internet mess
#Mainstreaming talk about the internet so often completely misses the point, yep, it’s the FT so no surprise there. The actual internet, the one we built before the takeover, is a culture of #4opens protocols, stitched together with moth-eaten mythologies and messy traditions. It was never clean or pure, but it was ours. What this guy in the article is describing isn’t the internet, it’s the #dotcons layer that’s been built on top of that original infrastructure. Worse, it's one we […]https://hamishcampbell.com/from-unstoppable-slop-to-enshittification-the-ft-on-the-internet-mess/
Mythos and traditions are needed for revolutions to put down roots
If you want your revolution to succeed, it's a good path to build and grow from mythos and traditions, to look to your shared histories. Marxism and European #anarchism are coming back into fashion as source code of radical politics. But if we are to actually achieve anything this time round, we need to see and act in a #KISS understanding that most of what they propose already existed in indigenous and non-Western cultures. Ideas like #mutualaid, communal land, anti-hierarchy, #dialectics […]https://hamishcampbell.com/mythos-and-traditions-are-needed-for-revolutions-to-put-down-roots/
Thinking of #visiting America?
DON'T
Stay Away
Not only are you subject to random #kidnapping and #arrest by unknown #thugs with Federal badges, the streets of America are becoming extremely unsafe due to rampant #violent crimes from #Nazi
cultists, white #supremacists and #extremist christian religious #fanatics.
This regime change without a roadmap is the end of #neoliberalism, and good riddances to that Yes, we are tearing down the old neoliberal #deathcult consensus https://hamishcampbell.com/yes-we-are-tearing-down-the-old-neoliberal-deathcult-consensus/
Finding a path in a messy world
Let’s get this out of the way, most new tech projects are pointless. That’s not an insult, it’s a cultural symptom. People are pushing things not because they’re useful, but because they can. And when every shovel is used to dig holes in sand, we’re not building anything, we’re flailing. From this experience, let’s build culture, not just code, because here's the hard truth, we’re losing the reboot of the #openweb by failing to nurture it. Yes, #mainstreaming people are […]By stripping away regulations and protections, neoliberalism pushes into a rentier society that thrives on exploiting paths essential for survival. The #deathcult we worship: Totalitarian capitalism consumes everything https://hamishcampbell.com/the-deathcult-we-worship-totalitarian-capitalism-consumes-everything/
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Episode webpage: http://sites.libsyn.com/555737/how-to-defy-a-death-cult
Why Christianity Checks Every Box of a Death Cult | You Were Raised in This
> What if the real cult in America isn’t in the woods… but in your church?
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