Comment on unleash your humanities
seeigel@feddit.org 1 week agoWell, I have watched that monk movie.
So you see fascism as something else than colonialism of white people, as something with a spiritual component.
That solipsism, isn’t that something that also happens in consumerism and nowadays internet entertainment bubbles?
I would like to argue that it’s worthwhile to figure out how to reach people in that mental state because fascism and that state of mind are so ubiquitous that violence cannot win.
Don’t those scholars have any suggestions beyond violence?
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
no such thing.
movement in that direction is present a lot of places. do you know what the word means?
can’t unmix the drink, babe. sometimes, the best solution is a bullet. once you get past a certain point nazi, you cannot become a human again.
yeah, and they all boil down to ‘prevention’ and debates over the amount of violence once you fail to do literally any prevention. once you hit a critical mass of nazis, you gotta kill the nazis. they can’t be cured. my perspective doesn’t precisely match any of them, but once you get to this point, all the options other than violence are already off the table. ask me a decade ago, maybe there’s another way out. but the hour is fucking late, dude.
seeigel@feddit.org 1 week ago
Not looking it up, it’s a worldview where only the person themselve is valid. Kind of like hedonism but without the joy or like utilitarism but without the concept for people.
I like to think of zombie movies as reflections on that problem. They imprint that there is no healing.
Is it space or matter? You cannot unmix a drink but you can distill the alcohol and you can reverse a position unless it’s near a black whole.
If we cannot reverse nazis then we lack enough knowledge of the mind. There must be a reason that somebody is rejecting truth, reality and the existance of other people. If we can identify that and show that it is irreversable then punching may be necessary. Otherwise we have found our own way of ignoring humans.
Think Musk and his daughter. It’s all political but at the core it’s hurt feelings.
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
you’re not going to figure it out arguing on social media. there are people I would love to have this argument with, but you aren’t one of them yet.
seeigel@feddit.org 1 week ago
Where else? Academics won’t risk their career for it. Maybe we meet again one day and figure out a bit. This was very interesting. Thank you for the conversation.