D.R.E.A.M.

 1. Time kills (Chris Burden quote )

2. Time is money 


Therefore 3. Money is death or dead time and.  

4. Death Rules Everything Around Me D.R.E.A.M. get the money, 




I guess this is just one iteration of the labor theory of value via a particularly gothic aspect of marx, his vampirism metaphors etc , or focus on accumulation of DEAD capital or labor time 




Anyway , it was a fun syllogism for me as a late teen/neoteen and it came to mind when I recently got hoodwinked by a totally demonic techie parasite ... Which I talk about here : 

https://youtu.be/mlU_33W370I



And damn I lost the rest of my draft but it also makes me think about how we are doing destructive extractive things to the earth for dead Money/capital, the extraction of petrochemicals that end up staying in our blood forever.  Capitalism isn't the only system capable of producing ecological crises but it seems it may be the one most good at it









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