'Transgression' Is a Cultural Scam
If you're working class, all you really have to do to be transgressive is to act like people in higher classes than you.
I don't mean by ascending from your station in life and becoming a machiavellian businessman. I mean by simply entitling yourself to as much time as you're able to grab for yourself.
This is what will truly get you hated and possibly killed.
You can make some fecal art, some piss Christ art, and push all the buttons of regular working people and then sell your shitty NFT’s, that's fine, but is this transgressive?
Are you slacking on the job and failing to produce value your employer can under pay you for? Are you completely disregarding patent laws and actually behaving as though having an objective relationship to reality is different from the bourgeois rhetoric around it? Or are you just doing some sort of cynical ‘maxxing’ because nothing is going to ever change and capitalist realism is what you subscribe to where we're all plugged into a cosmic machine that's outside of time against which we have no agency?
Transgression is a weird pastime for rich kids and morons. There is no transgression. Nothing that can be ‘sold’ as a scarce resource is transgressive in any way.
True transgression is against reality itself, and we're already living in transgression. We're being forced to (complicitly). We live in a profane space.
A profane space is one in which all activity is in service to means which don't culminate in any kind of pure ‘for itself’ end (not for us, anyway). Nothing gets finished. Like fucking without love. It's fine, but not if you're lying to yourself that you can repeat it forever and achieve the fruits of love!
If you're working all the time and can barely get by, you're living in a profane space.
If you believe that you have to do evil to save your family, you're living in a profane space.
If you think people just suck full stop or that nothing has value or meaning, you're living in a profane space where everything is just moving utils around arbitrarily.
There's no meaningful ‘transgression’ today because transgression would just entail transgressing against transgression itself.
The only thing worth disrupting anymore are the daily disruptions that take us away from what we'd rather be doing anyway.
Suffering has value, but we're not allowed to even suffer properly - everything is just sort of shitty but not enough for us to transform ourselves out of it.
I would have it that the whole world suffer than the whole world stream, eat and jerk itself off into oblivion.
You know how you keep from eating the bugs?
You kill animals. You ignore patent laws that monopolize digital refrigerators designed to track illegal proteins and you get people to build a private refrigerator. Then Minecraft anyone who comes for your fridge the way you said you would the day they came for your guns.
The faster we go through immense suffering as a species, the faster the true value we create can no longer be denied or traded in for plastic junk and porn and coffee and Hollywood. Those things will surely exist but why at the expense of a 4 hour work week?
Transgression as an aesthetic choice, a cultural fashion, an artistic statement, is only a means of social regulation between agents of bourgeois utility. Transgression replaces art as a signifier of social capital - of being ‘willing to go there.’
But ‘there’ has been done gone to already.
The moral norms of yesteryear have not been standard for a while.
‘Transgression’ can resemble religion where a particular set of values are constantly commemorated through the ritual recreation of certain taboos and little mimetic reminders.
I don't care if some HBO show makes a naughty joke about women are really like, or how libtarded some people are.
‘Transgression’ is in this sense just ends up being bourgeois policing and gatekeeping.