Garrison Davis

But I see this attitude of arrogance, callousness and corruption.

It's like they're not even trying to maintain a veneer of legitimacy or intelligence or anything like that.

Yeah.

You know, they, they panic of course, or they fall into conspiracies or they deny that there is an actual problem.

It's hard to recognize what you are immersed in as a thing itself.

And it's only really in seeing and reading about alternatives that you get a glimpse of this normalcy and question to realize the system is natural or inevitable.

It's an aberration destined to decline no matter how much we want to believe otherwise.

That this script of working, consuming, careering, accumulating property and all is a normal that is actually kind of weird.

It's strange that an entire society is dependent upon globe-spanning supply chains, volatile markets, and oriented entirely around the quarterly earnings of elites.

You know, it's strange that normal is so narrowly conformist.

Those who don't conform are marginalized.

It's strange that normal means an illusion of independence that disguises the webs you will always rely on.

I'm just thinking now about people whose whole thing is being like homesteaders, but their homesteading is in itself a performance for the global supply, or the global market for distracting or entertainment or whatever you want to call it.

And they do not exist outside of those supply chains.

They are doing this performance of...

of independence because they are so codependent, right?

They exist to generate revenue off affiliate links or however influencers make money, sponsorships.

Yeah, like there's a guy who I remember like a year ago, because I'm like...

I don't know, broken inside.

I got into an argument with someone on x.com.