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** The follow-up assumption that defines the aesthetic is that people would gladly show up to a work just to smoke some ciggies with their friends and fuck around | ** The follow-up assumption that defines the aesthetic is that people would gladly show up to a work just to smoke some ciggies with their friends and fuck around | ||
** This culminates in the implication of a society that acts as a museum and theme-park dedicated to the memory of the hard work that made this state of leisure possible | ** This culminates in the implication of a society that acts as a museum and theme-park dedicated to the memory of the hard work that made this state of leisure possible | ||
* The appearance of Universal Empire is always localised to the culture of a place | * The appearance of Universal Empire is always localised to the culture of a place | ||
** This localisation does not act as a facade for an institutionalised Universal Empire (like the sci-fi clishe of the United Nations turned into a polity) | ** This localisation does not act as a facade for an institutionalised Universal Empire (like the sci-fi clishe of the United Nations turned into a polity) | ||
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**** In simpler words: There is no aesthetic difference between McDonalds in [[Germany]] and the [[United States of America|USA]] | **** In simpler words: There is no aesthetic difference between McDonalds in [[Germany]] and the [[United States of America|USA]] | ||
**** Universal Empire, in contrast, is itself the sum of commonalities among it's expressions in different cultures | **** Universal Empire, in contrast, is itself the sum of commonalities among it's expressions in different cultures | ||
* [[Communism]] and it's [[Post-scarcity economics|excess of leisure]] transform the common worker into a hobby intellectual who takes the time to engage with high culture previously reserved for the bourgoise that treated "having time for it" as privilege, yet the former worker still maintains a rugged aesthetic as philosopher-barbarian | * [[Communism]] and it's [[Post-scarcity economics|excess of leisure]] transform the common worker into a hobby intellectual who takes the time to engage with high culture previously reserved for the bourgoise that treated "having time for it" as privilege, yet the former worker still maintains a rugged aesthetic as philosopher-barbarian. | ||
* Smoking is cool and healthy | |||
=== Institut d'AuGirLis === | === Institut d'AuGirLis === |