/lit/ - Literature

i'm not even talking about the film here, but just the tagline here about sums it up: You Can't Stop Progress.

that's the point. whether you choose to accelerate the program or just kind of lose your shit thinking about it, the point is that you can't stop it, and in many ways that is a *good* thing. acceleration is like leftist overdrive, and in land's case leftist overdrive sent him through the wormhole and he came out Full Rand+ And Then Some. ofc, you could say that that was just who he was anyways, and Young Nick was only the prologue to Old Nick in the way an acorn becomes an oak.

but what it makes me realize is that the resentocrats who rule the media universe today are really the guys who have failed to see the forest for the trees (no surprise there). You Can't Stop Progress. because the telos of capitalism is not reducible to the demands made on it by the consumer society. consumption was the bait, that's the part we like. now we have made a full-on deal with the devil and not until death does urban civilization from this part.

You Can't Stop Progress! that is where all the humor of the situation lies, one way or another. and there is humor in this stuff, a precious little grain of it that Woke Justice can never seem to get. or, sadly, that perhaps Old Nick or even Neo-China arriving from the future cannot get.

but it is there. Absurdo-Marxism kind of works too.