/lit/ - Literature

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>Disingenuous
>Calls the concept of surrogate activity an "asinine ploy"
Dude, it's very fucking obvious when comparing the acts of hunting the animal you will eat that night and hunting boars in a video game to get XP while eating some Doritos TM, which one is the surrogate activity and which one isn't, and why.

Just because at the lower levels of abstraction you act like an autistic pedant and can cast some ambiguity over whether an activity is a surrogate or not under Ted's definition, does not make the concept invalid at all. Categories are always fuzzy at the edges.

Fascism is fine within a technological-industrial framework, but the whole global system is going to shit so I don't care much for it other than transitionally perhaps