MrSmiley
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- Comment on Sci-Fi, Satire, and the Post-WWII Mythos 3 hours ago:
That was interesting, it’s too bad he didn’t mention how liberalism itself has been caricaturised. He said how liberalism believes all cultures and peoples are essentially interchangeable, that is demonstrably false. The core tenet of liberalism is the right to be an individual, which carries the obligation to respect that right in others. There are cultures that do not respect that right, and are incompatible with liberalism. The consequence of neoliberalism and the total atomization of the individual has annihilated the core of liberalism, through the destruction of the cultural norm of respecting others individuality in so far as they uphold that obligation themselves, transforming liberalism into the negation of itself, that the “fuck you got mine” and the cultures/ideologies that force themselves on others should be respected.
I think he misses a crucial point, that the “image” or “mythos” is the real, or hyperreal. In today’s society, those caricatures are more “real” than real. The medium is the message.
- Comment on Formula 1 capitalism 1 day ago:
The first five minutes was satire, the “experts” sit in front of bookshelves to display their “smartness”, talk at people their “truths” to be taken on faith, and go through the rituals of like/subscribe to the channel to their channel.
The pointlessness and excess of F1 racing is the point, it’s the culmination of all human culture, experience and meaning. We try to look for deeper meaning to life truth whatever, but there is none, the meaning is on the surface. That’s all there is, all that ever was and ever will be.
- Comment on [USA] Is "there are ICE agents roaming the streets" a good reason/excuse to avoid going outside? Or is it just a part of reality that you have to learn to accept? 1 day ago:
Those headlines aren’t reality, it’s hyperreality, outside is a whole different world from what the images you are being bombarded with. You only have one life to live, may as well experience it while you can.
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- Comment on How to respond to societal collapse | Sarah Wilson | TEDxSydney 3 days ago:
5:33 - She says she has been a climate activist for the past 15-20 years, not prediction dates.
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- Comment on How Cults Use Language to Control | Otherwords 1 week ago:
For that, you need to understand the etymology of the term and its evolution by way of elite capture as defined by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
The term “woke” originated in AAVE to call awareness about racial injustice and systemic oppression dating back to the 1930s. The term was then captured and the meaning broadened by the elite within the Democratic Party, transforming the term into an empty signifier, that is the meaning is vague and varies from person to person.
The two parties differ on social issues because the ruling class (neoliberals) doesn’t really care about those issues, and use it as a tool to divide the masses into two camps.
The term was then captured again and inverted into a pejorative, loaded language term by the Republican Party, who has adopted authoritarian capitalist measures under Trump to protect the unsustainable system of increasing wealth inequality. It’s actually ironic how the right claims they are defending “Western Civilization”, when one of the main factors throughout history of civilization collapse is extreme wealth inequality.
The term “radical left” is used to shift the Overton window to associate center-right Democrats with “the fringe” of the left. This enables Republicans to move to the fringe of right-wing extremism and still be viewed as “moderate”. They got you fighting over trivialities, supporting policies that harm not only “the others” but yourself, while they pillage and plunder the wealth of the nation.
They got you supporting the same system as the Soviet Union, the same things you claim to oppose, because it’s marketed to you.
I recommend reading The Road to Serfdom, since you are by the author’s definition a socialist of the right-wing variety. In that vein of thought, it’s little surprise MAGA is closer to Marxist/Maoist Communism than anything American.
- Comment on How Cults Use Language to Control | Otherwords 1 week ago:
“Radical left” is an example of loaded language from the video.
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- Comment on Every Propaganda Technique Explained in 11 Minutes 2 weeks ago:
You’re misremembering, the video covered gaslighting.
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- Comment on Dr.K Explains Tylenol and Autism 3 weeks ago:
While the connection may not ultimately matter scientifically, it matters ideologically. This modern day Lysenkoism emerging in America is a common feature of totalitarianism, and it will permeate throughout all sciences.
Incredible as some of these aberrations may appear, we must yet be on our guard not to dismiss them as mere accidental by-products which have nothing to do with the essential character of a planned or totalitarian system. They are not. They are a direct result of that same desire to see everything directed by a “unitary conception of the whole,” of the need to uphold at all costs the views in the service of which people are asked to make constant sacrifices, and of the general idea that the knowledge and beliefs of the people are an instrument to be used for a single purpose. Once science has to serve, not truth, but the interests of a class, a community, or a state, the sole task of argument and discussion is to vindicate and to spread still further the beliefs by which the whole life of the community is directed. As the Nazi minister of justice has explained, the question which every new scientific theory must ask itself is: “Do I serve National Socialism for the greatest benefit of all?”
The word “truth” itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to be believed in the interest of the unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.
The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek
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