Rum is good. I've got no headache.

Last night I served cocktails at a squatter party (no actual squatting took place). Very random! I'm neither an expert on cocktails nor am I a squatter (I've been tempted to join a few times, but a) it's never successful in Heidelberg because the police always shows up b) you can very easily get arrested and c) the radical left annoys me a bit because you always feel like an outsider if you don't wear dreads and a punk uniform.) I like punk music and the location is pretty cool, though, so it was fun.

There was also a movie showing and isn't leftist propaganda the silliest thing ever? "How to conquer a planet! Look, the evil capitalism monster! Give people money and they will obey you!" (It was a cute cartoon about said evil capitalism monster. It came in a spaceship and had tentacles and money and it conquered the earth. Everyone seemed to think it was a brilliant allegory.)


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There's nothing to make you feel bad about loving media fandom like reading Baudrillard (because I agree that simulation is replacing reality and that the media are in a way "programming" us to perceive/feel after certain models. I mean, how often do you see/do/say something and compare it to something you've read or seen on TV? I'm just not sure if this is really a symptom of the postmodern world. We've always told stories to categorize and make sense of the world. Imitation and simulation are part of human nature, the problem is just that modern mass media are so omnipresent and so intimately linked with economy. But on the other hand, no one says that Shakespeare is the work of the devil and will bring about the end of civilization because it was intimately linked with Elizabethan politics.

Rum is good. I've got no headache.

Last night I served cocktails at a squatter party (no actual squatting took place). Very random! I'm neither an expert on cocktails nor am I a squatter (I've been tempted to join a few times, but a) it's never successful in Heidelberg because the police always shows up b) you can very easily get arrested and c) the radical left annoys me a bit because you always feel like an outsider if you don't wear dreads and a punk uniform.) I like punk music and the location is pretty cool, though, so it was fun.

There was also a movie showing and isn't leftist propaganda the silliest thing ever? "How to conquer a planet! Look, the evil capitalism monster! Give people money and they will obey you!" (It was a cute cartoon about said evil capitalism monster. It came in a spaceship and had tentacles and money and it conquered the earth. Everyone seemed to think it was a brilliant allegory.)


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There's nothing to make you feel bad about loving media fandom like reading Baudrillard (because I agree that simulation is replacing reality and that the media are in a way "programming" us to perceive/feel after certain models. I mean, how often do you see/do/say something and compare it to something you've read or seen on TV? I'm just not sure if this is really a symptom of the postmodern world. We've always told stories to categorize and make sense of the world. Imitation and simulation are part of human nature, the problem is just that modern mass media are so omnipresent and so intimately linked with economy. But on the other hand, no one says that Shakespeare is the work of the devil and will bring about the end of civilization because it was intimately linked with Elizabethan politics.