Has anyone *actually read* Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation"?
The point is not what if there is some massive computer controlling our world... we dont even NEED one to do that -- we always-already live in a simulation. Im sure you all remember Commodity-fetishism, RIGHT???
My nerves tell me what to use and when to use them. Today I feel like using something that is difficult to use, so evilwm is the right thing. When I feel lazy of have something better to do, gimme GNOME.
Obviously, there's no way to empirically sort out what's bloated and what is elegant -- and anyone who refers to themselves as a 'minimalist' is without doubt flyiong on the old worn-out modernist presupposition that there is some undeniable Universal TRUTH (in this case, about window managers)... which is just plain nostalgia.
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The point is not what if there is some massive computer controlling our world... we dont even NEED one to do that -- we always-already live in a simulation. Im sure you all remember Commodity-fetishism, RIGHT???
My nerves tell me what to use and when to use them. Today I feel like using something that is difficult to use, so evilwm is the right thing. When I feel lazy of have something better to do, gimme GNOME. Obviously, there's no way to empirically sort out what's bloated and what is elegant -- and anyone who refers to themselves as a 'minimalist' is without doubt flyiong on the old worn-out modernist presupposition that there is some undeniable Universal TRUTH (in this case, about window managers)... which is just plain nostalgia.