• PlaidBaron@lemmy.world
    932·
    24 days ago

    Little guy would of made it if he had just shot his web straight up and attached himself to the sun.

  • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works
    722·
    24 days ago

    I feel bad for the spider, but I have admit the web in the glass is really cool looking, like a piece of art. I’d probably preserve that if I could (minus the spider corpse)

  • atlien51@lemm.ee
    66·
    24 days ago

    I hate spiders and even I feel bad abt this shit. It’s just a cruel scenario

  • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    24 days ago

    My stepdad worked hard all his life. He managed to buy his own plane and fly it all around. To some flying up in a plane might seem somewhat insignificant, but most people never get to fly at all.

    We’ve only got so much time to get a plane.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
    29·
    23 days ago

    Last time this was posted, the some answers said it’s actually likely a nest (funnel web spider or something?) and the “dead spider” shed skin.

    So the metaphor for capitalism is… The Rich carry on eating the produce of the Poor, while the socialists look on and think the system is dying? Haha! Checkmate Poors!

  • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
    306·
    24 days ago

    TBH spider wasted fuckton of silk on unnecessary web. It died because it wasn’t smart enough

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    15·
    23 days ago

    Y’all know that spiders can climb right?

    And that spiders often make webs that look like this? Famously, funnel spiders?

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    91·
    24 days ago

    Sine wave formation might have been more efficient and hence resulted in survival, but I’m uncertain as to whether the web structure and anchor points would have allowed for it.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
    335·
    24 days ago

    Or a metaphor for socialism… lacking the economic freedom to buy more silk, the spider couldn’t escape an artificially designed system run by a central authority that didn’t predict this scenario, because it isn’t feasible for a central authority to predict every scenario.

    Or maybe, given that the looks like the glass is outside on the ground so maybe the spider was put into the glass on purpose to make the photo? So the spider was sent to a gulag to die because it wasn’t ideologically pure enough.

    Or maybe it’s just a spider in a glass and you can stretch a metaphor in any direction you want.

    • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
      171·
      24 days ago

      mmm yes. a spider which engages in the free market of silk was prevented by socialists from buying silk at a competitive rate. 🧐 that DOES describe what happened here. we should end all public welfare and privatize the justice system.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
        118·
        24 days ago

        It’s possible some dumbass got into power and had some goons put the spider into the glass and put tariffs on importing silk. The spider is dead and we’ll never know if the spider would be dead had there been a competent in charge. But socialists are 100% certain the spider was going to die anyway because they believe all spiders will inevitably die because some weirdo with a big beard said something about spiders a couple hundred years ago.

        Metaphorically speaking, of course.

        • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
          1·
          23 days ago

          No, Marx said Capitalism was a necessary stage of Socialism. It’s not that it dies, it’s necessary and becomes Socialism.

          Marx for instance would have disagreed with Mao/China’s initial attempt to jump straight to Socialism… And that mistaken attempt was born out by history (as being a mistake), as it ultimately failed, and China had to open its self to becoming a Socialist Market Economy (in order to make up for its missing the Capitalist steps of becoming inevitably a Socialist society).

          • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
            3·
            23 days ago

            There’s a letter towards the end of his life where he speculates about Russia, specifically, skipping the capitalist stage because of cultural reasons.

            Arising from a capitalist and industrial system is less of a requirement and more of what he considers to be the most likely scenario. You could, for example, in theory have a peasant revolution but you’d either need to attract industrial expertise to modernize your factories or reinvent a lot of wheels.

            And, of course, Marxism isn’t the only socialism.

            • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
              1·
              23 days ago

              Marx is kinda hilarious, bad father, vaguely antisemitic, bet on the stock market. Funny guy. I love that conservatives are so freaked out by him.

    • serenissi@lemmy.world
      4·
      24 days ago

      It’s a smile when commenter do not understand the post ever so slightly and jumps to metaphors like a cool philosophy bro LMAO

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
      41·
      23 days ago

      Your problem is that you didn’t present just a critique of Socialism, you veered into praising Capitalism unnecessarily (which means a new system was introduced uncritically).

      The metaphor for socialism would be that the one party controls the means of production, and that under true socialism there’d be a pile of dead spiders (heros and villains of the revolutionary period), and the web (which defines this epoch’s age of technology) would escape the glass.

      Possibly the most educated spider from the party’s politburo would be able to step out of the glass… They would then climb into the next glass and try to foment a revolution there.

      But all of the above is still dealing in an archiac propagandists ghost of 1950s Socialism (which wasn’t even like that to begin with)… And many parts of it are in fact a better critique of modern Capitalism with its industrial powerhouses forming monopolies and cartels interoperating with governments, and the culture industry to press people into further wealth disparity and corrupt democracy until it simulates a one party set of state Capitalist values.

        • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
          2·
          23 days ago

          It’s four paragraphs dude. Actually due to the poor quality writing it’s really just six run on sentences.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      24 days ago

      so maybe the spider was put into the glass on purpose to make the photo? So the spider was sent to a gulag to die because it wasn’t ideologically pure enough.

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