Nazi Scum, Fuck off
by Jay
Just a little statement from a person soon being made useless by fascistocapitalism.
Useless and proud of it.
by Jay
Just a little statement from a person soon being made useless by fascistocapitalism.
Useless and proud of it.
by Jay
There's this inner drive, the drive of an engineer, the drive of the software developer, that is intrinsically the drive of capitalism. It's the drive to make things more efficient. As I type this, in the back of my head there's a program that spits out the html tags required for each blog entry. I could program a nice GUI that creates the html tags to make the work of creating each blog post a little more efficient. Building efficiency upon efficiency I would at some point end up programming a whole content management system.
But where would the purple shapes be? Where would the borders around this specific post be? They just would not be there. I'd rather retain at least the CAPACITY to make each specific entity unique instead of setting efficiency as the priority of all my endevours. I want the inevitable copy-paste errors (yes, copy-paste is a little efficiency, but not the big, let's program away every edgecase kind. It's on a case by case basis. Whatever suits me best). The clunkiness of manually splitting the posts into sites for each month when they become too much at some point. Give me the missing html closing tags.
I want to WASTE time if it means the outcome is mine. So let's get inefficient. I don't want to pull out the punchcards and program factory size computers. It's about getting the idea of constant efficiency improvement out of my head.
by Jay
In search of people who share my views about praising uselessness I came across a movie made about and by the German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han. You can find it here and I can not recommend it enough: Youtube Link
by Jay
In the spirit of dada, or should I say Da-Da, I shall liberate myself from the constraints that hold me back and drill the idea of merit into my head. Human beings are worthy of life and joy no matter their accomplishments and the quality of work they produce.
Meritocracy is the core of the idea that the ruling class perpetuate to enslave people. I am not good enough is the first idea that must leave the heads of a liberated humanity. Inalienable human rights means everyone has them, not just those that "contribute to society", as the process of extracting value out of people's time and resources is so often erroneously called.
Work is necessary to keep society functioning, of course. But the fetishization of work by connecting it to the worth of people is nothing short of a draconian tactic of control. Combine that with the exploitative nature of work under capitalism and the result is a mindsnare that traps billions of people in it constantly; and those people even falsely think they don't deserve more, because they didn't apply themselves enough or do not follow some hustle and grind culture.
Where this fetishization of work shines through almost all political affiliations is the barbarity of the idea of "useful immigrants", where even the liberal left falls for the trap to argue that "immigrants are good because they do all the shit jobs we don't want to do".
Only when people are valued for being people and not for what they do can this society be liberated. This is why uselessness, inefficiency and yes, straight up dysfunction must be praised above all other values. Only when a human being that is worth nothing to any market is valued without compromise can the stranglehold and mindsnare of meritocracy be loosened within ourselves and within society.
by Jay
I created this site to do something simple and to celebrate simplicity for the sake of it. This site may be useless, but uselessness may be the last bastion of hope in a world where everything non-functional is destroyed under the gears of profit.
I'm typing this text in an html editor.