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Personal accountability is a dying trait it seems. Sorry you are getting downvoted for what seems to be an accurate assessment of the situation. I wonder if the people downvoting would argue that advertisers for taco bell are not complicit in your buying a taco?

If you have the time to do it today, doing so is an investment in having more free time tomorrow, or if tomorrow is busy it is now less stressful.

Keep your lighter in the empty part of your cigarette pack (haven't smoked in nearly a decade, but this logic is applicable elsewhere).

Find pants that fit/look good/are comfortable and buy 15 pairs.

Black clothes/accessories match everything and require less thought.

"Leftists" offended by these sentiments are most likely centrists. The goal of neoliberalism (read: the DNC) has been to shift the left to the center. This has been their objective for years. See: Obama, Biden, the Clintons.

TK was post-left before it was cool.

"Just fix it in protools" is a common phrase uttered by too many musicians to count in the pages of TapeOp as well as their podcasts, to a degree that would seem to argue against your points raised here. There may be many artists that are technically proficient and still employ these techniques as an element of their aesthetic, but there are far more who acknowledge using it as a crutch.

(Professional recording engineer here)

My thoughts, too, went to Luigi Russolo and early experimental electronic music, and experimental films of the 1920s. Obviously any counterculture can still be co-opted into the mainstream. See what is happening now with various civil rights movements being worked into corporate images (and the ensuing conservative backlash).

What happens when Adorno & Horkheimer become mainstream pop icons?

Obviously not, but it is important to distinguish who is actually being targeted. Like, obviously? Leftist activism has long been the target of government surveillance and infiltration. It would seem that the true threat is more from the right, so why is the left/post-left/anarchist groups/civil rights activism the subject of greater scrutiny?

Semantics matter. I was just pointing out a fact for people just commenting who had not read the article and may have assumed the title was accurate, which it is not.

I have been opposed to all government surveillance programs and technologies, and would guess that I have been researching them longer than you have been alive (i assume you are young since you are so quick to jump to conclusions)

Mullein, raspberry leaf, lots of other herbs can be a decent alternative that don't satiate the physical craving. Mullein helps clear out your lungs and can actually help you quit nicotine. You can also cut tobacco with these kinds of herbs. I'd recommend researching herbal smoke blends to anyone interested. Can also be used as a safer alternative if you want to cut your spliffs with something other than tobacco.