Another day, another straight-to-home media third part in a slasher series that neither gets the point of itself nor features any of the original cast, it's --
#65, or #1555, 2006's "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer."
"As humans, we constantly wrestle with how the world fits together. We project other entities, including people, onto their possibilities as our basic way of getting by. We try to figure out how things in the world connect together. If I am driving and see someone walking through an intersection that is typically empty, for instance, I pay closer attention. That pedestrian immediately becomes ready-to-hand for me. I know that they mean something in my world, and their possibilities immediately change my situation. I apply the brakes. In this way, the world places demands on me. Even if I kept my foot on the gas pedal, I would be keenly (and horribly) aware of the consequences that my action would bring down on myself and the pedestrian. Heidegger’s concept of the ready-to-hand reveals the phenomenology of being human. To exist means to inhabit a world that matters to us as a world.
Haugeland calls our capacity to understand and react to the significance of entities in the world “ontological responsibility”. This translates more directly: human intelligence is about getting things right. We harm our own possibilities when we get things wrong, when we fail to see salient connections between things. The burden of understanding the significance of the world follows us from birth. By contrast, ontological responsibility eludes the grasp of computers and their theoretical knowledge of the world. They can only identify present-at-hand objects in isolation. They do not care whether they get things right.
The chain of connections involved in ontological responsibility may seem endless. If hammers lead to nails, leather, footwear, and entire economies, where does it all stop? Heidegger’s answer is stark: “Death is the possibility of the impossibility” of existence. If we get things wrong, we die. The end of the chain is our existence. Yet we are thrown into a world that already has meaning at our birth. Our lives are filled with things to get right. As a consequence, we are not free to do whatever we want. Other entities in the world determine what we can conceivably be. Finitude defines our existence and our responsibility: objects break, resources run out, other people die. I will die."
Monochromatic and minimal, this project's slow movements show the same slo-mo majesty as the flying debris from the end scene of the movie the artist cites as an inspiration (Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 Zabriskie Point).
What I actually said is that the standard of living is going up in China while it’s not going up in capitalist countries. If China was capitalist then you’d expect the same thing to happen as it does everywhere else where there is capitalism. China would look something like India right now.
Numbeo is ranking India at #56, China at #65 for quality of life index.
China is notable for having a recent rapid increase. It’s easier to have a big delta number, when your starting number is so low.
Once you show me somebody doing it better than China then we’ll talk.
According to Numbeo there are still 64 counties doing better on the quality of life index than China.
And nobody is expecting them to voluntarily give up wealth, taking the wealth away and nationalizing things is the job of the government. Of course, you refuse to accept the fact that working class holds power in China and that’s what your fallacious view of China is premised on.
Working class holds what power? Tencent and Alibaba aren’t owned by its workers. Why would the government ever decide to give up its joint wealth and power with the billionaire class? What could the workers possibly do to hold them accountable?
1/ Following up on my write–up about Quasi Dragon Studies (QDS) by Harvey Rayner, here is the thread about recent #GenerativeArt projects that I originally intended to write.
7/ Rückkopplungen by @pxlshrd x TENDER art feels like an instant classic.
The abstract images visualize ideas of emotions and biographies and how both interact with each other in each of us.
The artist wrote a thread on X that beautifully explains the different graphical aspects and that opens up the visuals to all numbers of interpretations.
[DISCUSSION] [SPOILERS] LOKI S02E06 - Glorious Purpose (www.imdb.com)
EPISODE...
I had a journey (lemmy.ml)
Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)
Connections #65 Tuesday 15 August 2023
Link to Connections: www.nytimes.com/games/connections...