/doomer/ - Doomers Club★

so if I dream it I can be it?

I always wanted to become a mass shooter, now's my chance.

thanks d00t for the uplifting message and have some gold, kind stranger!

>>4909

>so if I dream it I can be it?

Yes, but you must reject all negativity. All words, all media, everything. The fate of the world is within you.

Hope is the first step towards disappointment.

>>4914

Disappointment is an illusion. Within you is infinite power. Believe in yourself within whom heaven resides.

woa dude im totally positive now thanks

>>4916

Thank you. You are loved.

>>4913

I don't think mass genocide is negative. getting rid of people that make you feel bad about yourself is good praxis for an approaching utopian society.

>>4938

datamine this glowwies: I just saw a fucking tiny bird dive into a frozen lake and then come up for air

>>4939

She's saying that she is worthy of being smashed in a similar fashion.

>>4985

So say she's not worth the smash- so many other players in this game. So many potential suitors for this burger hog it's almost shameful. Clever though right? "She" seems fun.

>inb4 doomcels

>>4985

or that she has read JG Ballard's Crash, and is somewhat of a fan.

>Generic half edgy reply

>>5006

>generic meta greentext

>>4905 (OP)

>You stand on the shoulders of giants

yes, giant pieces of shit, only thinking about it makes me sick.

>>5805

I like Ballard but I'll be the first to admit that it's not everybody's cup of tea. He had a long writing career and first made his name writing classic SF, so he's not "any boomer" not by a long shot. His characters can be one-dimensional but characterization takes a backseat to the setting in most of Ballard's novels. It helps if you read the male lead as a self-insert. Laing, Maitland and Ballard are the same person put into three different realities, so it is probably better to read it with Crash and HIgh Rise.

>>5863

i am going to watch high rise soon. looks good. have you seen they made that into a movie?

>>5901

Yeah, saw it when it came out. The visuals are great, they get the 70s atmosphere down perfectly. But I think they got too indulgent with it, shoehorning a Thatcher quote that just doesn't belong and fucking with the story to make the class war aspect more blatant. Of course, it's much harder to portray a subtle buildup in a movie than in a book, but they could have avoided being so hamfisted with it.

Cronenberg made a good decision to set Crash in the then-contemporary 90s, and not do a period piece. I think Ballard is deeply misunderstood as a writer. Crass political commentary was never his style, and he was influenced by everything from Jungian psychology to post-structuralism. He was aware of how corporate propaganda and cult of celebrity shaped our world, and predicted the rise of social media in 70s. And on top of all that, he saw more shit by the age of 12 than most people do in the lifetime.

>>5907

>predicted the rise of social media in 70s.

really? sauce plz

>>5849

"Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."

Hitler was the ultimate life coach

>>5972

that would make a great plot for faux-reality sitcom.

> Hi, I am Adolf. You may know me as a bad guy but I have turned my life around. I now help underprivileged children read, and work as an addiction counselor. In this episode, me and my partner Moishe will be going to the South Side of Chicago to teach adolescent gang members the powers of forgiveness and reconciliation.

>>5978

damn. he nailed it. is that in high rise?

>>5979

contain that thought anon. netflix would really buttfuck that idea. i dont want to experience those levels of cringe.

>>6006 (palindromic digits, checked)

No, its from an interview he gave in the early 70s. Back then, everybody was obsessed with outer space and pictured space colonization as the future of humanity. Ballard was the first to notice people losing interest in space after 1969. When asked about what the future would hold, he basically predicted the Reagan presidency and everybody starring in their own reality TV show.

>>4905 (OP)

>just be yourself dude