probablyasocialecologist:

“‘Surveillance capitalism’ was the term coined in 2015 by Harvard academic Shoshanna Zuboff to describe this large-scale surveillance and modification of human behaviour for profit. It involves predictive analysis of big datasets describing the lives and behaviours of tens or hundreds of millions of people, allowing correlations and patters to be identified, information about individuals inferred, and future behaviour to be predicted. Attempts are then made to influence this behaviour through personalised and dynamic targeted advertising. This is refined by testing numerous variations of adverts on different demographics to see what works best. Every time you use the internet you are likely the unwitting subject of dozens of experiments trying to figure out how to most effectively extract money from you. Surveillance capitalism monetises our lives for their profit, turning everything that we do into data points to be packaged together as a profile describing us in great detail. Access to that data profile is sold on the advertising market. But it isn’t just access to our data profile that is being sold – it’s access to the powerful behavioural modification tools developed by these corporations, to their knowledge about our psychological vulnerabilities, honed through experimentation over many years. In effect, through their pervasive surveillance apparatus they build up intricate knowledge of the daily lives and behaviours of hundreds of millions of people and then charge other companies to use this knowledge against us for their benefit.”

— Jennifer Cobbe, The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or Facebook – it’s “surveillance capitalism”

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rapacious-flesh:

“Black Metal is the musical memory of our bloodthirsty ancestors of blood, it is the marriage of Tradition, of old racial patrimony with fanaticism, with the rage and the rashness of a youth now lost. It is a CHTONIAN religion: a cult of the EARTH and a return to it, therefore a nationalism; a cult of what is BELOW the earth: Hell — the adjective “chthonian” applies to the Infernal gods as well. BM is a fundamentalism, a music with integrity (from Latin integer, complete) which helps me to remain complete in a dying world, amidst a people in decay, unworthy of its blood. It is the apology of the dark European past. It is a psychosis which helps us to flee a reality we cannot tolerate anymore.”

— Sale Famine (Peste Noire)

(Source: lebensform-blog, via dionysiancell)

aspectofbacchus:

organophosphor-shock:

imperilysm:

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: you have only the rights you’re willing to rip someone’s intestines out for. If you can’t imagine yourself committing physical violence to protect your property or ideals, YOU ARE GAY

This is the sort of hardline idealism that is hard (if not impossible) to practically integrate into a fruitful daily existence, but I agree with the sentiment. In the Golden Age of Saturn, when Kali Yuga has run its course and a harmonious world begins anew, we will again find our honor in the disembowelment of those who would stand against what we value most. There is no Justice in Kali Yuga; its very nature is the perversion of dharma. Honor must be found within, through unmoving steadfastness and faith, as there is no social structure to support any value save whatever is sold as such by the loudest voices.

Good point.

growthofthesoil:

“A former S.S. man had once told me: “The first duty of a National Socialist is to be beautiful,” (physically, and on all planes) —words worthy of an ancient Greek; words of an Aryan of all times. And my comrade Herr A. — who without having served in the Waffen S.S. is just as devoted a follower of Adolf Hitler as any of those who have — had once told me: “A National Socialist should have no weaknesses,” — words that I had remembered so many times since my manuscript, into which I had put so much love, had been in danger of being destroyed. And I reflected that, indeed, unless one had “no weaknesses,” one could not be perfectly beautiful; that every weakness is a flaw in the steel of one’s character; a tendency to sacrifice beauty to happiness, duty to individual ties, the future to the present, the eternal to the illusory; that it is a definite possibility of decay. Only out of flawless elements can living gods emerge. The man whose life is a thing of integral beauty, the man with no weaknesses, is the man with no ties, who performs duty with ruthless thoroughness and with serenity.”

— Savitri Devi, Defiance

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