Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #deathcult, aggregated by home.social.
Conspiracy thinking isn't escaping the #deathcult, it can be another form of worshipping it.
Instead of asking “what structures produce this?”, it asks “who is secretly doing this to us?” That is #stupidindividualism - structural problems reduced to hidden villains and individual heroes.
Structural, common sense, asks what produces this. Conspiracy thinking asks who did it. One builds collective action, the other feeds fear, suspicion and isolation.
Any commitment to end the antitrust raid on the public finances by the broligarchs monopolies would go a long way to restoring the people’s trust in government. We the broligarchs is diametrically opposed to “We the people…”, as it bets all our capital on keeping them rich until their programme of ecocide ends all life and the hegemony of their corporate hydra! #DeathCult #Broligarchs #philosophy #ecocide #CorporateSovereignty #government #biospherecollapse #DRDI #RepublicSovereignty #WeThePeople #Foundation #TheFederation #Justice #Equality #wellbeing #flourishing #hope #DemocraticRightsDiverseInterests
Why does the #Fediverse exist?
The #Fediverse exists because the corporate #dotcons are not enough, we don't wont more of our social lives as products, our relationships into #closeddata, and our communities into audiences to be managed. We wont a different way to communicate, organize and build power together. But the #Fediverse is not simply a kinder version of corporate social media, its has a promise based on the history of the #openweb: people and communities building their own spaces, connecting through open […]
There are few working, humane alternatives to the #deathcult, so stepping away from this mess isn’t an option for many of us. We need to build alternatives that work in the real world to step to.
That’s what the #OMN is about: combining grassroots practices we know work with federated technology like #ActivityPub to connect and horizontally scale them.
#makeinghistory, #IndymediaBack, the #OGB and the #4opens are stepping stones towards a different, more sustainable world.
So only treating #BLOCKING as the default response to disagreement is politically a dead end, and the word #deathcult needs to be used about this.. We need to build solidarity, work through differences and create alternatives people can actually use.
Keep it #KISS: less knee-jerk rejection, more practical work. We won’t block our way into another world. We have to build it.
“Another world is possible” - but our friendly enemies keep pushing #mainstreaming dressed up in radical language. The result? We’re accepting “common sense” of the system instead of challenging it.
Solidarity gets fragmented into identity and partisan battles, while class power escapes scrutiny. We end up pointing fingers at each other while the #deathcult carries on.
We need to defend the right to care, but turn that care into collective power. Real solidarity means looking beyond the latest distraction, naming structural power and building alternatives together.
Don’t just make the existing world look kinder. Build the other world. #OMN #4opens #openweb
When mainstreaming colonize the things that work
In alt-culture paths we have meany problems, one of them is the #mainstreaming “colonize” what works, absorbing popular, fringe, and grassroots ideas, stripping them of their radical core, and adapting them to serve the common sense #deathcult paths. Let's look at an example of this sewage pipeline: Organic success, a movement, phrase, or subculture gains organic traction because it effectively speaks to real-world anxieties, desires, or truths (e.g., environmentalism, civil rights […]https://hamishcampbell.com/when-mainstreaming-colonise-the-things-that-works/
The Israeli Occupation soldiers prevent Palestinians from harvesting olives in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
#genocide #warcrimes #deathcult #Zionism
ALP enable this #Auspol
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The Israeli Occupation soldiers prevent Palestinians from harvesting olives in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
#genocide #warcrimes #deathcult #Zionism
ALP enable this #Auspol
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An Israeli filmed herself tearing down and removing “Free Palestine” stickers in New Jersey, USA, admitting she couldn’t walk past them without taking them down, in an effort to suppress voices of solidarity with the Palestinian cause abroad.
She's disordered #psych #deathcult #fanatacism
An Israeli filmed herself tearing down and removing “Free Palestine” stickers in New Jersey, USA, admitting she couldn’t walk past them without taking them down, in an effort to suppress voices of solidarity with the Palestinian cause abroad.
She's disordered #psych #deathcult #fanatacism
Pick up the shovels to start growing the commons, that’s the #OMN path
There is a temptation to see today's hard right move as something new. Looking at this mess, the #deathcult is the name I use for the destructive logic of #neoliberal capitalism: a world where profit, growth and competition are the dominant measures of value, while human needs, shared resources and collective responsibility are pushed aside. If we want to understand the political crisis, we need to dig beneath its surface of how social crisis becomes authoritarian politics. The hard right […]https://hamishcampbell.com/pick-up-the-shovels-to-start-growing-the-commons-thats-the-omn-path/
I should start adding #deathCult automatically to my #carBrain tags
(Yes, I've been watching Heilung reaction videos again.)
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #deconstruction #decolonization #DeathCult
Christianity teaches that pain is external and unnatural, something we must strive to avoid at all costs.
Worse, true relief from pain only comes as a reward for obedience in enduring mortal pain. Ongoing punishment for sin is the godly default, and only a righteous death will release you from it.
This often generates a veneration of suffering and motivates people to pursue it in themselves and others. These inherent contradictions only lead to additional trauma and confusion.
This is why I call it an abuse culture. It is THE root of abuse culture in the West. Secular culture is infected with these core values that run much deeper than rote doctrines, and we have only just begun to unpack it.
An alternate view is that pain is one of many aspects of nature. It's uncomfortable, and we instinctively do try to avoid it, but sometimes it can never be avoided and there is less suffering and even healing in accepting this fact. There is even balance and beauty in pain, as it warns us of damage, protects us from death, and is a necessary aspect of creation and newborn life.
Our ancestors knew this. It is one of the values we were colonized out of.
White unculture sucks at helping us cope with unavoidable pain.
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #deconstruction #decolonization #DeathCult
I realized many years ago that the #geekproblem has no clue what to do with the #OMN.
As its value sits outside the narrow value system of tech, platforms and capital, so they simply don't see it, and if you can't see the value, you have little motivation to ask what it could become.
So stop for a moment, step outside the current mess, you need a shovel, as if you don't get to the roots of social problems, they just keep coming back.
The #OMN is about digging into those roots - the structures and habits of the #deathcult that keep reproducing the same mess.
Don't just clean up the shit on the surface, dig.
It should be more obvious by now that #mainstreaming culture is a #DeathCult.
The question that matters now is: what non-obvious alternative cultures could actually become the difference we need? It's what I've been working on with #OMN, #indymediaback, #OGB and the #4opens.
They are from underground ideas and practices we already know work, then add the useful parts of #openweb technology to sprout small seeds → connected communities → practical alternatives → real change.
Not more shiny ideas or another round of #techchurn. But something we can actually build.
PS: please don't be a prat.
The Christian idea of a martyr is when your god demands a human sacrifice, but wants it it to be his own follower instead of an outsider.
That's what makes it ok.
In the “post-truth” world, right and left become meaningless, and when shared reality breaks down, we ourselves become meaningless. In the era of #climatechaos, that's not just sad, it's dangerous.
Our constant bowing and worshipping of the #DeathCult feeds #stupidindividualism: everyone trapped inside their own little reality, unable to see the social truth around them. And when you point to that shared reality, people feel bullied because it challenges their individual bubble.
It would be funny if it didn't end in sadness. We need to step back from the individual bubble and rebuild the shared commons of reality.
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With our worship of the #deathcult, we forget the god underneath is called the #freemarket, a religion built around signals - price, profit, growth and capital tell us what matters - and we organize society around those signals.
So here's an #openweb question - what happens if we replace greed and capital as the signals, #open / #closed in data and metadata. Can openness, trust, participation, commons and community become signals too? I know this makes some of the worshippers uncomfortable...
Back in the #mainstreaming world, the #dotcons are shaping young people into a future where they know little beyond worshipping the #deathcult.
It's a shit-heap mess, but shit is compost. The #Fediverse is a handle of the #OMN shovel.
We don't need another shiny platform. We need to start turning the mess over, making space for something else to grow.
"We are all much closer to being climate refugees than billionaires." Sounds obvious, but our culture keeps selling us the opposite story: that individual wealth, consumption and status are the escape route. They aren't.
A handful of people can buy better walls, private transport, safer property and temporary insulation from the consequences #Climatechaos is a collective problem, and pretending it is an individual lifestyle problem is worshipping the #deathcult.
We need to stop dreaming about joining the tiny #nastyfew elitists and start building communities that can survive the mess together.
Less individual escape. More collective resilience.
Our problem as individuals is #stupidindividualism. This makes us stupid by teaching us to see every problem as my problem, your responsibility, your choice.
But the mess we are in was created collectively - through institutions, markets, cultures and the worship of the #deathcult.
There is no individual solution to a collective problem. Stop worshipping #mainstreaming paths that tell us to fix ourselves. We need collective action, social change and the rebuilding of community.
Fuck your “solutions”. If you are still bowed down, eyes on the ground, worshipping the #deathcult, your “solutions” are the problem.
Nice people are still doing harmful work. Good intentions don't change bad structures. Please, stop pushing polished #techshit that #BLOCKS real alternatives.
Compost the mess, build the alternatives.
To make machines more human, we have to make humans more like machines.
The #OMN problem is that we have built society as a mansion for the #nastyfew - private ownership, walls, gates and guns - while teaching everyone else to worship a #deathcult .
The reversal is simple - don't make humans fit the mansion, make the mansion fit humans.
That is the #KISS move from property to commons. From the #deathcult to the #lifecult.
You can see how deeply the #deathcult mentality is ingrained after decades of #neoliberal “common sense”. People have internalized #TINA - there is no alternative - so deeply that even imagining something different can feel unrealistic.
That makes building native #openweb paths outside the #dotcons bubble is hard. But endlessly tearing things down isn't helpful either.
We need patience, strategic optimism and, most importantly, something to build towards. For horizontal movements, the challenge is turning critique into practice:
Build things.
Share what works.
Make mistakes.
Learn together.
Build again.
Hope is not optimism about the system, it is building the alternatives
It's all fiction - not a valid question at all. However, I like how it could be used to break more Christian-Zio #deathcult minds #Auspol It's a given Bridget McKenzie would lose her shit over it.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:roa6r4catvbhubvvwj2jvcjs/post/3mw6g3offoc2q
Turn off your #adblocker for a while and you really see how poisonous #mainstreaming has become.
Watching the advertising on Amazon Prime is a perfect example.
Take alternative culture, strip out the politics, package the aesthetics, sell it back to us, then bow it down before the #deathcult.
This is how #mainstreaming works. Not by banning alternative culture, but by absorbing it, hollowing it out and turning it into content for sale.
We've got piles of #cultureshit to compost.
So apperception is the understanding of sensory impressions without any comprehension of the reasons for them? Hence the projection and equivocation of apprehension, as in with reasons with apperception, so the popular appeal of the broligarchs death cults is an inbuilt fault of the human mind designed to bring about its extinction! #Mind #DeathCults #DNA #ErrorCode #understanding #apprehension #DeathCult #philosophy #apperception
People live with far too much manufactured fear. The #deathcult keeps us afraid of change, afraid of each other, afraid of losing what we have - even when what we have is clearly not working.
We need to move away from the current mess, not cling to it because fear tells us it's safer. Change is scary, but staying trapped is a choice too.
What most people didn't understand about the #dotcons is that they aren't just platforms for distributing information. They are strongly focused on changing individual and social behaviour.
The algorithms reward some behaviours and punish others. Over time, this shapes what we make, what we say, what we watch, what we believe is worth saying, and eventually what we think is normal.
If you don't make your video in YouTube advertising-friendly formats, subjects and agendas, the algorithms won't spread it. Very few people will see it. Meanwhile, the majority of what does reach people repeatedly carries the values and assumptions of the #deathcult, day in and day out.
If you don't shape your message into clickbait stupidity, nobody will see your posts across the #dotcons. The weak, angry and pointless gets pushed at you every hour you check your phone. You rarely see anything without the #deathcult assumptions embedded in the system.
If you don't mostly push ruling-class agendas, you don't get very far in traditional media. We already know this game.
And sadly, if you don't display the right subculture colours, you can struggle to get anywhere in many supposedly successful #openweb projects too.
That's the #stupidindividualism when we keep pretending these are individual choices when the infrastructure that is deliberately designed to shape the choices available to individuals.
The #dotcons don't need to tell you what to think. They decide what gets seen, what gets rewarded, what gets buried and what becomes normal.
After enough time, people start doing the work of the algorithm themselves.
That's the mess we need to compost.
The #hashtags are simple. They are a shorthand for different parts of the same social, political and technological mess - and for some of the ways we might start composting it.
#deathcult = neoliberalism: growth, competition, extraction, consumption and individualism treated as common sense.
#fashernista = fashion applied to social and political relations: following the latest language, agenda or institutional trend rather than looking at what actually works.
#openweb = the original ideals of the WWW and internet culture: open standards, decentralised publishing, linking, sharing and people making their own tools.
#closedweb = the move away from the open internet: proprietary networks, closed platforms and centralised control. It describes both the pre-internet closed networks and the post-#openweb world where the #dotcons grew.
#4opens = the open-source/FOSS tradition with the addition of transparent process: open data, open source, open standards and open process.
#encryptionists = the belief that more encryption is automatically the answer to social problems. Encryption is useful, but treating it as the solution to everything can become unthinking technological dogma.
#dotcons = the transition to a for-profit internet and the social relationships that came with it: users as products, platforms as owners, data as property and participation shaped around extraction.
#geekproblem = an old argument about free will and determinism, but also a cultural and social problem around technical culture. The “two cultures” discussion is a useful way into understanding it: technical expertise is valuable, but it is not the whole toolbox.
#techshit = part of the composting metaphor. Shit is not simply waste, it is part of an ecological cycle. Social and technological shit can be composted too: expose it, learn from it, keep what is useful and grow something better.
#techchurn = the technological outcome of the #geekproblem: endless cycles of new tools, platforms and architectures being treated as progress, even when they don't solve the underlying social problem.
#nothingnew = a deliberately polemical way of slowing and reversing #techchurn without becoming dogmatic. Before building another shiny new thing, ask whether we have actually seen this problem and solution before.
The hashtags are tools for thinking. They help us name patterns that otherwise disappear into the noise. And once we can name the pattern, we have a better chance of changing it.
The mistake is always turning the tools into a mythology and then building society around the mythology. The #deathcult has had fifty years of economic “thinking” on this, look at the mess, now lift your eyes.
#AI mythology is currently more of the same https://hamishcampbell.com/ai-mythology-is-currently-more-of-the-same/
Let’s compost it and build something alive.
It's the #dotcons, not your phone. We have the software of the #deathcult in our pockets, and we're addicted to this digital drug.
Don't fall into despair, step away, step back into the #openweb and get some of your life back.
It's hard to detox from the algorithms, but it's harder to stay trapped in the mess.
The phone isn't the problem, the system behind it is.
#AI mythology is currently more of the same
OK, lets not deny real risks, but also don't accept the AI industry's mythology as the starting point for discussing risks. The useful question is what currant AI's actually do, who controls them, and what infrastructure and power relationships we are building around them. AI is useful technology wrapped in a massive social, political and financial mythology. At the #OMN we are less interested in the usual argument between “AI will save humanity” and “AI will destroy humanity”. as […]https://hamishcampbell.com/ai-mythology-is-currently-more-of-the-same/
#AI implementations can create real security, economic, social and political problems. But we need to separate those problems from the mythology. The #deathcult is selling the future as #techshit https://hamishcampbell.com/the-deathcult-is-selling-the-future-as-techshit/
