GROK AI (twitter/X), on Communitarianism & Niki Friedrich Raapana

 I asked:

"Please give me exhaustive details about Nikki F raapana and her opposition to communitarianism"

GROK SAYS:

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Niki F. Raapana, along with her daughter Nordica Friedrich, is known for her work as an independent researcher and writer focusing on communitarianism, a philosophy she actively opposes. Here's a detailed overview based on available web information:

Background and Work:

Co-founder of Anti Communitarian League (ACL): Niki Raapana founded the Anti Communitarian League, an online grassroots research institute dedicated to studying and critiquing communitarianism. The ACL was established in 1999 in response to local community development actions in Seattle, Washington.

Authorship: Raapana co-authored with Nordica Friedrich several key texts on the subject:

"2020: Our Common Destiny" - This book explores the historical and philosophical roots of communitarianism, particularly how it intertwines with concepts like Agenda 21 and sustainable development. 

"The Anti Communitarian Manifesto" - A comprehensive critique of communitarian ideology, law, and its implications on individual rights and freedoms.

Opposition to Communitarianism:

Philosophical Critique: Raapana views communitarianism as a synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic, where individual rights are subjugated to the needs of the community, which she sees as a precursor to forms of global governance that diminish personal freedoms. She describes this as a "Dictatorship of the Community," contrasting it with communism by noting its integration of capitalist and socialist elements.

Legal and Political Analysis: Her work delves into how communitarian principles are being implemented through laws and policies, particularly those associated with sustainable development and community planning. She criticizes these as tools for globalists to reshape society under the guise of environmental and social benefits, ultimately leading to a new world order.

Publications and Media: Raapana has been active in sharing her views through various platforms:

She contributed articles to News With Views, discussing topics like the role of religion in communitarian synthesis, neighborhood fascism, and the final synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic.

Podcasts and interviews, like those on "The Mind Renewed" and "The Shift," have featured her discussing communitarianism's implications, particularly in the context of global corporatism and policy changes like those during the COVID-19 response.

Influence and Recognition:

Academic Reference: Raapana's work has been referenced in academic settings, including Vassar College Seminars and in Thomas Wood's National Association of Scholars Bibliography on the Communitarian Residence Life Movement.

Public Engagement: Through her blog, "Living Outside The Dialectic," she continued to engage with readers, offering critiques of other researchers and activists like Rosa Koire, who she felt misrepresented or misused her work on communitarianism.

Legacy and Continuation:

Posthumous Work: After Niki Raapana's passing in 2022, her daughter Nordica Friedrich continued their legacy by initiating projects to publish and update their research, including new editions of their books and new titles like "The Green Virgin."

Raapana's opposition to communitarianism is deeply rooted in her critique of how this ideology undermines individual liberties in favor of collective governance, which she sees as a covert path towards totalitarian control masked by progressive or communal ideals. Her work has sparked discussion and debate within circles concerned with the implications of global policy frameworks on personal freedoms.

Psalm 23: SB's Paraphrase (in a "sing song" rhythm)

 The LORD is my shepherd I shant want

he makes me lie down in da green grass

he takes me next to the still waters

he restores my soul

he takes me up the right street becuz his name is good

and even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death:

I'm not afraid of evil cuz your w/ me

your rod and your staff

they comfort me

you make a place for me where my enemies live

you rub oil on my head;

my cup runneth over

for sure goodness and mercy gonna follow me all the days of my life

and I will dwell in your house forever

[AMEN]

TWITTER [X]] UNROLL: They are forcing AI onto us all, and the world will quickly change

 Ryan's talking about the huge changes going on behind the scenes w/ AI. Most only dabble or are vaguely aware. Many have zero clue that AI is anything but "bad fantasy photo generation". They've never looked up the definition of "SINGULARITY". Short thread of my thoughts:

We've been conditioned to think about AI our whole lives--in the west--with sci-fi like HAL, (the AI computer voice from "2001: A Space Oddessy"), or with the deep fantasy speculation of guys like Phillip K Dick (Bladerunner), or William Gibson (Neuromancer). & Don't forget DUNE.

Much of the media that's been provided, (mostly fiction), has a dystopian vibe to it. Like Terminator. The AI computers & their mechanical robots are going to take over the world & we will become their slaves. It probably won't go this route in reality...

But it will change everything--forever. It already has. They say that AI was 1st mentioned in a workshop organized by John McCarthy in 1956 at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. & this makes me suspect it's been around even longer, as a concept.

I find it interesting & super annoying that they are forcing it on us in a soft way. Have you noticed on Facebook Mobile? How they put the little "AI Helper" buttons right where your muscle memory is already programmed to click? So you open it on accident--

--and then have to go back--and re-click just to add a photo & what not? WELL THAT'S NO ACCIDENT. And it's also dishonest. We've been deeply conditioned to accept deception and dishonesty because of the world of marketing and advertising.

& currently they've focused that "slight of hand trick" on ramping up AI. The put the buttons where you HAVE to click. They use ALL the pictures & text on the internet to build & feed their models, & With little or no repercussions. It's unavoidable. Forced under your nose.

And really that's all just surface level dialectical garbage. Most people don't have the attention or intelligence to truly consider what these systems are currently capable. And that prevents them from considering how much bigger & 'all pervasive' it will become.

Vast majority of people don't know what an "order of magnitude" really means. They don't know how fast we're all traveling in this new AI direction. (It's 10x times a gazillion). They've tied it into everything. Did you notice how often the chat bot and phone prompt are AI?

...well it's only gonna keep on going. the post that Ryan shared is not an account I'm familiar with. but the graphics he's sharing are trying to inform you--the AI is getting so "smart" so fast--it's gonna undercut almost every single industry on earth.

The 'secret nerds' on "Mt Olympus" are designing a system that will allow them to replace almost all human labor as we know it. I think Ryan's right--and that it will take many more years than some are predicting--but, it's still coming.

...and lately they're making it impossible to ignore. It's not a coincidence, or by accident, that they're shuffling buttons, and flooding the feeds w/ bad art, and suddenly encouraging people to "sign up" at a low price...

Or even use it for FREE. (Did you notice that GROK & META AI are now free?) I did. Their marketing strategy worked on me. I'm not an early adopter or someone who needs to pay for AI just yet... But making it FREE was just enough to get me to start experimenting. "tinkering".

And it's amazing. And horrifying. And I have so many questions and complaints. I didn't really say much here... Just a thread to consider "the vibe of the thing". What do you think about the whole AI roll out these last few years? Or maybe you don't care? Or you're not sure?

...maybe you should just ask the AI?

✅--I went back and added some random captures of my digital art from my Insta. It's all for sale if you just ask. Oh! & also... I was wrong. I do pay for the program that helps me make all this art. And it uses quite a bit of AI for many of it's functions.) "So it goes"

Tumblr User Points Out that "TUMBLR AESTHETIC" is 'same as' dada aka NEO-DADA art movement etc

 tumblr meme culture is really just a form of neo dadaism

I’d like to clarify:

dada was a largely european art movement that took place after wwi. this time and place is not a coincidence. let me explain. 

dada art made no sense. the artists who made dada lived in a world in which nothing made sense - in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war. so, making art that made no sense, making - well, you can’t really call it art, so making ANTI-art that rejected the conventions that brought about that atrocity in the first place - it made total sense. (if that makes any sense.)

so the artists did weird things. new things! putting things that were already made together and calling it sculpture, cutting up bits of pictures and putting them together and calling that something to frame - this site has some nice examples.

but from my perspective - there’s serious intellectual continuity between the absurdity of attaching a bunch of tacks to the bottom of an iron, rendering it useless, and say…. bath bomb posts. Put a fucking macbook in a bath. it’s useless now. Nobody fucking cares anymore. you want something funny? you want a punchline? gun. that’s your punchline. Take it. I am laughing

in a way it could be a method of venting some of the frustration and hopelessness and dissatisfaction that tumblr’s userbase (largely, disenfranchised millennials) feels in the modern day. I can’t really speak for anyone else, but… at least from a US perspective, there’s plenty to be disillusioned about. growing up in a constant state of questionably justified war, income inequality, an economic recession caused by the actions of a handful of wealthy fucks who didn’t even get properly punished, growing awareness of police brutality, being called lazy and self-absorbed by the generations that gave us these problems in the first place… I can’t help but think that these factors (and more) could produce a similar mindset to the one that precipitated the first dada movement. 

so of COURSE we make nonsense jokes. it’s a coping mechanism for a world which doesn’t make any sense.

related: this isn’t by tumblr but I have to plug UCLA’s atrocity of a virtual gallery once more. it really needs to be experienced, but… it’s definitely also millennial neo dada. from the presentation (like an unplayable video game) to the content (THE DOGS HAVE ARRIVED), it is exactly what I am talking about. it is a fucking shitpost. and it’s high art, too! I love this

tl;dr: my generation is fed up with this bullshit, and the best way that we can express that is by shitposting. alternatively, dada was an early precursor to modern shitposting and we should all thank duchamp for signing a fucking urinal

a dear friend has given a perfect update to some of my phrasing, courtesy of their word replace extension:

you see this? this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. the thing that I’m talking about is:

shitposting is the deconstruction of hegemonic discourse through the use of the absurd and surrealism.

I’d also say that while Dadaism was obsessed with the technological aspects of Modernity, of newspapers, of industrial mechanics and factory made clocks, neo-dadaism (of which shitposting but also the increasingly broad reach of the New Aesthetic and net aesthetics) is obsessed with the technological aspects of our time, or at the beginning of our time.

As just a comparison, the Clock in Absurdist and Dadaist art is both a symbol of the uplifting beginning of industrial relations (as one of the first complicated machines made by manufacturers, as the symbol of mankind’s ability to triumph and analyze nature and better ourselves) and as the deified symbol of horrific modernity (of demarcated time, labor hours, the oppression of the working class via managerial time), Neo-Dadaism/Absurdism has a similar relationship with early computers, which both symbolizes the utopian attitudes which we entered the digital age with, and the horrifying period we live in now, where the Digital is ever present and semi-deified.

My favorite dada satire is probably from Georges Grosz who takes the kind of robotic modernist tube people of folks like Leger:

and turns them into these mindlessly patriotic broken automatons chanting rote phrases:

And it’s so so funny to me that there’s all kinds of Gen X artists out there creating art about the millennials on their damn cellumar phones who think they’re the inheritors of this aesthetic but really it’s people who use the Madden gif generator to shitpost because they’re taking the technology meant for a coherent purpose for a particular narrative and they’re breaking it and turning it back on itself.

I think you might be onto something…

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Aside from color palettes and materials used, I see literally zero difference.

This is one of the top 3 best posts I’ve ever seen on tumblr and I’ve been here for years.

Love

My grandmother took several classes on Dadaism, and I attended them with her growing up. Then I took plenty of art history when I got my BFA in Illustration.

This post is 100% legit in their observations. I’m seriously impressed.

Duchamp’s Urinal was one of the most famous, well known Dada pieces ever made, and he made it purely to prove that literally anything can be art. It was all about ignoring the Establishment’s rules of what art was and wasn’t, - this is exactly the same thing happening in real time.

@manicure-emoji

I really miss art theory…

LIST OF FREE AND UPDATED LINKS TO COMMUNITARIANISM INFO FROM NIKI RAAPANA AND NORDICA FRIEDRICH

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RAAPANA AND FRIEDRICH’S RESEARCH AT “ANTI-COMMUNITARIAN LEAGUE”:

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ARCHIVE OF HEGELIAN DIALECTIC PAGE FROM OLD ANTI-COMMUNITARIAN LEAGUE WEBSITE:

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---------AND REMEMBER!-------
Nordica lost her mother only a few short years ago.  She's raising 4 boys on her own.  She's keeping the books and other works available free of charge.  So it's a WORTHY DONATION to send her some support when you can.

Just DM me on Facebook or Twitter for updated means of donating directly to Niki's daughter.

Thanks,

-sb

I MADE ANOTHER ART THREAD AND I MENTION AI WEIWEI AND CHARLES KRAFFT

 SB ALGER AKA "SEWNEO" DIGITAL ART THREAD:

I haven't made a thread of random digital art for a while. I have a "new practice", where I get stuck in my own Google Photos drive... I use a term or terms for 'search', w/ something in mind... and instead I get distracted by other things. Often times it's my own digital art:

In a 'round-a-bout' way, this thread was inspired by @aiww. He posted on Insta that his sculpture "Porcelain Cube" was smashed during a showing in Bologna. The man was arrested. he is a known "art destroyer" from Czech Republic. Ai Weiwei is also famous for destroying pots.

Ai Weiwei's cube reminds me of works by the controversial Charles Krafft. Krafft made "dissasterwear" ceramics in Dutch Delft Style. Krafft [RIP] was popular w/ collectors until it was revealed that he was a White Nationalist™ and a Conspiracy Theorist™.

Can u believe it?!

It's unlikely that Ai Weiwei is unaware of Krafft, &--I used to TALK TO KRAFFT--(without realizing WHO he was), back in the day on Facebook.

Cuz he was friends w/ my friend @NRaapana, known for her expose of #COMMUNITARIANISM, & when I realize later, I was floored.
So it goes. 

Anyways--
Back to my own works.
Search terms this time around were "monochrome pattern", (within my own google photos drive). I had searched for "black & white", a few days back, cuz somebody here on twitter made a quote tweet encouraging people to share "B&W Art".
Here's a few:

One of those above is just a regular ole photograph. No filter or settings or anything. Can you believe it?!
...anyways...
I often scroll scroll scroll to the very bottom of my search results so I can get a glimpse of the "oldest art I made" according to these search terms:

"Google Photos" now uses AI to generate what it believes to be 'best results' from your search terms. I love & hate it. So now it does NOT generate chronological results--so--my above adventure for oldest was thwarted (though the portrait is 2018), alas! try again for 'old ones':

2018, & a rare "irl" painting (incomplete of course) from 2015. Strange that the Google Photos app doesn't wanna search for "black and white". No results. Hmmph.

Do u think it's cuz the terms are nerfed to prevent racism & stuff? know it also goes blank for "fuck" or "jew".

I'll gather a few more before I press "Post all", and go do SOMETHING around the house...

More "monochrome pattern" results. "b&w" works too. Weird, right?

More random samples from AI generated resulst from my own extensive google photos drive of "omfg i save everything cuz i have adhd and make a shitte-tonne of digital art":

Three More Tweets, (no more text):

(#2 is a birthday gift for @AdamJoshDotCom, circa Oct 25, 2021)

@threadreaderapp compile