2023-04-16 07:36:52
George Tsantikos
In the most Balkan version of the Succession scenario, in Greece, the unbearably rich exchange candlesticks and join hands in the inter-business development partnerships (=superleague) and their armies are killed in rendezvous and attacks on the streets of the city where they live.
Succession, a TV series on the American network HBO, is probably the best series on the air right now, maybe the best series of the last few years, maybe even of the 21st century (not since Wire has existed, but whatever). The fourth season, which will also be the last, is more satanic than all of them. A patriarch who has an outrageous amount of money and even more power, is in constant conflict with his children who he loves, but who are also “unserious”, as he describes them.
In the field where the battles take place, in the series – because it is almost as warlike as Band of Brothers – infinite things are consumed: people, money, fuel, resources, thrown into the capital mixer, to make the morning smoothie of the bosses. So, following recovering from the above analogy written precisely to avoid what we usually say in these conversations (from the grinder of capitalism to the millstones of capital), let’s look at some interesting analogies.
First of all, while this is happening on TV, another outrageously rich and annoying guy, Elon Musk, was rebranding his latest game, Twitter, by putting doge, the dog-cryptocurrency, of course affecting this whole “intangible stock market capitalism” thing. ». Sometime in the early seasons of Succession, the heir to the patriarch walks into a convenience store in New York and pops a pack of cigarettes, which he tosses in the trash on his way out. Because that’s what he wants, because he can. And because if he gets caught, shut up.
So there, the “progressives” are just as unbearably rich and their differences are that they “can’t listen to numbers”, but when these are translated into money, the development is quite normal and they can continue to be progressive, i.e. to they refuse to drink water from a plastic bottle. The others, the conservatives, go to work with two helicopters, so that there is a place to sit and the differences are visible.
But perhaps the best analogy with events closer to our reality, are the responsibilities. Just as these, in modern Greek culture, are channeled and diffused from the leader downwards, to reach and stop, like a clogged sewer pipe, at the last employee, as far as possible from the boss, so are they depicted in the virtual bourgeois universe — an expression that I hope will become established in the age of ChatGPT and Bitcoins. In one particular episode, the leader wants to establish his protégé as a news anchor, but she doesn’t own up to it. He makes it clear to his staff that he cannot have anything to do with the case because it would be “unprofessional”, so he tells them, without telling them, “cut your throat”. Nice and homely. The leader above and beyond all responsibility, the one who will declare war or smile crookedly at his subjects, saying to himself “who are they all and what do they want?”
As in the modern Greek state, the responsibilities are channeled from the leader downwards, to arrive like a clogged drain pipe in the
last employee
So, in the most Balkan version of the Succession scenario, in Greece, the unbearably rich exchange candlesticks and join hands in business development partnerships (=superleague) and their armies are killed in encounters and attacks on the streets of the city where they live. The unbearably rich are Prime Ministers and take phone calls and on radios like Takis Korolakia who saw that it was not a penalty yesterday on the field and must denounce it. For them to say that “no, it wasn’t raining, it was fine we had a nice event” in a square that, firstly, he himself would never go for coffee (not because he would be in danger…) and secondly, when he went, with the guard, they mightn’t to go others and others, without legalizing documents. The unbearably rich do not share power with those who want to be equally unbearably rich. Outside of Succession, this whole story doesn’t have that much kino fun. But art always copies reality in a satanic way, without giving ready-made solutions. Succession, a television series of the American network HBO, is probably the best series that is being shown at the moment, maybe even the best series of recent years, maybe even 21st century (not since Wire has existed, but anyway). The fourth season, which will also be the last, is more satanic than all of them. A patriarch who has an outrageous amount of money and even more power, is in constant conflict with his children who he loves, but who are also “unserious”, as he describes them.
In the field where the battles take place, in the series – because it is almost as warlike as Band of Brothers – infinite things are consumed: people, money, fuel, resources, thrown into the capital mixer, to make the morning smoothie of the bosses. So, following recovering from the above analogy written precisely to avoid what we usually say in these conversations (from the grinder of capitalism to the millstones of capital), let’s look at some interesting analogies.
First of all, while this is happening on TV, another outrageously rich and annoying guy, Elon Musk, was rebranding his latest game, Twitter, by putting doge, the dog-cryptocurrency, of course affecting this whole “intangible stock market capitalism” thing. ». Sometime in the early seasons of Succession, the heir to the patriarch walks into a convenience store in New York and pops a pack of cigarettes, which he tosses in the trash on his way out. Because that’s what he wants, because he can. And because if he gets caught, shut up.
So there, the “progressives” are just as unbearably rich and their differences are that they “can’t listen to numbers”, but when these are translated into money, the development is quite normal and they can continue to be progressive, i.e. to they refuse to drink water from a plastic bottle. The others, the conservatives, go to work with two helicopters, so that there is a place to sit and the differences are visible.
But perhaps the best analogy with events closer to our reality, are the responsibilities. Just as these, in modern Greek culture, are channeled and diffused from the leader downwards, to reach and stop, like a clogged sewer pipe, at the last employee, as far as possible from the boss, so are they depicted in the virtual bourgeois universe — an expression that I hope will become established in the age of ChatGPT and Bitcoins. In one particular episode, the leader wants to establish his protégé as a news anchor, but she doesn’t own up to it. He makes it clear to his staff that he cannot have anything to do with the case because it would be “unprofessional”, so he tells them, without telling them, “cut your throat”. Nice and homely. The leader above and beyond all responsibility, the one who will declare war or smile crookedly at his subjects, saying to himself “who are they all and what do they want?”
So, in the most Balkan version of the Succession scenario, in Greece, the unbearably rich exchange candlesticks and join hands in business development partnerships (=superleague) and their armies are killed in encounters and attacks on the streets of the city where they live. The unbearably rich are Prime Ministers and take phone calls and on radios like Takis Korolakia who saw that it was not a penalty yesterday on the field and must denounce it. For them to say that “no, it wasn’t raining, it was fine we had a nice event” in a square that, firstly, he himself would never go for coffee (not because he would be in danger…) and secondly, when he went, with the guard, they mightn’t to go others and others, without legalizing documents. The unbearably rich do not share power with those who want to be equally unbearably rich. Outside of Succession, this whole story doesn’t have that much kino fun. But art always copies reality in a satanic way, without providing ready-made solutions.
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