Did they include the stuff like this in the big book? Quite like the idea of people buying it after hearing lots about him then reading pages and pages of petty squabbling.
The basic problem here is, if you're a total arsehole all the time, then people are gonna treat you like one.padraig was both batshit crazy, psychotically aggressive and incapable of constructing a coherent argument but it is also very dperessing when people wont let you overreach yourself and try and drag you down any time you are having a moment. thats sometimes a problem here, not always
when that's the only reflex people are capable of, and they wield it indiscriminately against anything which challenges them, the resulting dynamic tends to shit complacency, bants above all. But sometimes there is a point in being tactically deflationary, not letting someone get away with being domineeringly up themselves.
it is also very dperessing when people wont let you overreach yourself and try and drag you down any time you are having a moment. thats sometimes a problem here, not always
aside from the mad rage and flaming insults etc HMLT's long image/text posts were actually really good
a place of disappoint, war, banter
Rich is right also in that part of playing the forum game properly is accepting that it is a team sport and getting it to work, winning, is about collaboration basically
but this is what makes the music so unpleasant to listen tolike some horrible old alcoholic marxist will blow a rasberry into his trumbone the minute he thinks the band are being 'too nice to each other'
tell us more about itbut its done with a sense of the whole and the dynamics of the thing
YES! Nailed it at the end in regards to Fisher. I always got the sense that Fisher (and his ilk) live in a cloistered world - well read, sure, but circular, circumscribed. He mistook his small world for the whole world, generalised from his particular malaise. I like that Cussans centres on the notion of addiction, and it's not surprising that Fisher should have been more or less addicted to his phone, to tech. I get the impression that he was a big kid who never knew how to grow up (his constant references to pop culture, his remixes, etc) - he, like many from his generation (and those following), were just completely lacking in initiatory role models. He didn't know how to be an adult, and didn't want to be. This isn't, of course, to say that his critique of the wider culture is illegitimate.
I always wondered, how much did Fisher know about indigenous cultures, and would a wider view of things have made any difference? Fitting, then, that Cussans has an interest in such cultures.
like many from his generation (and those following)