• Word Salad

• Zen fascism
• californication
• self as erotic savior-slave in crisis settlerism
• there are constitutive contradictions in liberalism - i.e. universalism and individualism - stress (i.e. crisis, Collapse) exposes them
• this creates the Liberalism Legitimacy Crisis: - as these contradictions intensify, liberalism loses credibility|validity as an ideological system. - it can't produce the resolutions it promises - so it shifts to promising regulation - see Foucault
• California as projection zone: California Gold Rush, Misiones Californianas (the Patronato Real of California), psychedelic revolution, Hollywood, Esalen Institute, techno-utopianism
• californication is a process of responding to systemic contradictions by performing personal coherence? - doesn't address structural tension - processes it as a material to be commodified - aesthetic, affect - Brian Wilson (and the Barenaked Ladies song) - Valley of the Dolls - On the Road - californication as genre scripting: genre structures expectation (Lauren Berlant) - platformal liberalism induces californication as the dominant genre of contradiction management - crisis is trauma, mood, healing - MASH television show, Red Hot Chili Peppers, skateboarding - cybernetic settlerism, cybernetic subject - you change the world by how you route events into mood, not with your beliefs or action (which come from mood) - Calm app, Burning Man, lifehacking, microdosing
• Zen - don't fear Collapse: be serene - detachment - nonreactivity - Apple advertisement (1984 novel) - Starfleet and San Fransisco (Misiones Fransiscanas?) - ayahuasca entrepreneurism - stoicism, in late-season MASH - eroticization of detachment - crisis is desireable: - source of good affect, source of good life - crisis is the source of healing, spiritual growth, betterment of self - liberation requires crisis, you aren't doing anything if you aren't in crisis - (society, people, etc., need to be broken down)