Post #3424328 · Elektrine

2026-06-27 07:46 UTC

I feel like the way some folks are expressing annoyance with the goose discourse, that they're not viscerally connecting with the symbolism the way most of us are. 🤔 Like, I *feel* this meme. It's representative of my whole life, of having my lifeforce sucked out of me by parasites until I'm ill at age 50 and have nothing to show for it. It's a rare but accidental honesty from the clueless fucks who rule this world. It's the entire story of each of us and the whole world told in a handful of phrases and images. "Goose is not valued" feels like a rallying cry for valuable people who are only just now starting to realize... ...that we do have value. And that the only way they're going to understand our value is if we make them. #goose #goosetodon #gooseWasNotValued

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@corbden@defcon.social 2026-06-27 16:10

As I fell asleep, I reflected on how this is actually a great example of what Jung meant by the collective unconscious. It was never anything mystical or inherently new age. The mechanism is simple: A significant portion of the population has had common experiences that shaped us, particularly to do with being taken for granted and exploited by abusers and capitalism now in late stage collapse, and feeling generally powerless to defend ourselves. Add this to our common cultural background (Aesop, Grimm, Untitled games with a previous meme cycle), and our knowledge of the properties of reality (cute animals but loud and fast with long necks and built-in weapons and will attac). These ingredients mix together similarly for each of us, such that we instantly understand a meaning that wasn't intended by its out-of-touch corporate creator. This validation, in addition to a particular irony that makes our oppressors look like fools, gives us a common emotional and creative response. (There's a similar effect that underlies the concepts of the "zeitgeist" (also a Jungian idea) and the attitudes of generational cohorts.) Of course there are exceptions. Some may lack one or more of these ingredients due to diverse experiences, backgrounds, sensory processing, trauma copes, sense of humor, and exposure to the source materials. But that doesn't change that it happens, or why. And I'm here for it. #goose #goosetodon #gooseWasNotValued #AbuseCulture

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@MamaLake@beige.party 2026-06-27 07:51

@corbden@defcon.social exaaaaactly! The image generating machine built from our stolen words and images does not see the value in us. Now it’s throwing up art from an internal mechanism devoid of life while choking out the air, water and land. H0NNNk!!!

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@ChuckMcManis@chaos.social 2026-06-27 17:23

@corbden@defcon.social Nice. I saw a person wearing a t-shirt that said, "I am the goose" and I had to chuckle at that because it was so true.

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@zompetto@mastodon.art 2026-06-27 18:54

@corbden@defcon.social wait, the goose is _us_ ?!

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