Mastodawn

As a subjectivist, idealist, animist, and social constructionist I look at technological change and see it reflecting my views. Whether it's virtual reality as a constructed reality, augmented reality including via brain-machine interfaces, AI, etc. #philosophy #metaphysics #ontology #subjectivism #idealism #animism #socialconstructionism #socialconstruct #technology #VR #AR #AI

Iris of my I Sep 23

Racism: Nature’s Influence on Societal Constructs #shorts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwiU5aVbhY1cI22Z0tmhMxQ

Is racism a social construct or something deeper? It explores the separation and what fills the gap. The discussion dives into the roots of division and its impact. #racism #socialconstruct #ideology #separation #equality from Iris of my I

https://irisofmyi.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/racism-natures-influence-on-societal-constructs-shorts-https-www-youtube-com-channel-ucwiu5avbhy1ci22z0tmhmxq/

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Steve Dustcircle 🌹Aug 19

Is #Monogamy Natural or Just a #SocialConstruct? So what’s the deal?

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/is-monogamy-natural-or-just-a-social-construct/

Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶Aug 10

#ChatGPT is a more successful penny-farthing; a video essay:
https://youtu.be/4TsOD7x6rSQ

#ChatGPT #AI #llm #GenerativeAI #AIChatbot #AIEthics #AISafety #OpenAI #Anthropic #SCOT #sociology #Bijker #BigTech #Constructionism #socialconstruct #VideoEssay

ChatGPT is a (more successful) Penny-farthing! - a video essay

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Because ALL crime and punishment is #political. And power isn't held to the same standard as the rest of us.

#Wagetheft (employer cuts time illegally from worker time cards) is the largest theft type, even when adding all other theft together.

Steal $100 from the register? You get arrested and criminal matter.

Employer steals from employee $100 by manipulating time cards? Oh that's a civil matter. Hope you can afford a lawsuit and loss of your job.

Murder is also a #socialconstruct.

If you poison someone else and they die, its murder.

If you make policy that leeches lead and poisons a whole city, and kills many, you get a governorship in Michigan, and a fellow at Harvard.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Apr 8, 2025

One of the most telling parts of the horrifically #neonazi #ExecutiveOrder targeting #Smithsonian is its defence of literal "#ScientificRacism". It critiques exhibits simply for noting the proven fact that #race is a human invention, a #SocialConstruct.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

The White House

anubis2814 Nov 20, 2024

#Money , Is both power and a symbol of your effort. Within a certain amount, is a useful method of dividing the commons, trading goods and services and allowing people control over their lives and choices. Its something you earned.
After a certain amount it stops being something about what you earned and much more about power. That power now has the power over other people instead of just power over oneself. This allows you to change the rules of the game, put pressure on desperate people to sell their labor for less, and ensure the laws don't apply to you. Up to a certain point like an analogy its very useful and beneficial, after a certain limit it starts to break down and becomes at best useless and at worst dangerous.
Its why #Proudhon called for money to be replaced with single use labor credits, that couldn't be used to create more money off of others.
#socialconstruct #capitalism

Androcat Nov 12, 2024

The funny thing about social constructs is that they bring two distinct meanings of the (extremely problematic) term "objective" into direct conflict.

Specifically, the meaning of 'objective' that is "existing intrinsically, plainly detectable, clearly segmentable from its immediate environs, etc. etc." and the meaning of 'objective' that is "agreed upon by all members of a group, etc. etc."

What makes a social construct a construct is that it has no physical particulars, is not plainly detectable, cannot be clearly segmented away from its immediate environs (if it can even be said to have immediate environs), i.e. it is not an 'objectively existing entity', and in fact it's entire existence consists of the 'objective' agreement or objectively held belief that it exists.

So, that's what humans are like, if you were wondering why things are shit.

Humans are all about those 'objectively' non-existing 'objective' existences.

Ugh.

p.s. in case you were wondering, both those senses of 'objective' are pretty much bollocks.

#objective #socialConstruct #borders #nation #Institution #law #philosophy @philosophy

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Storygirljo Jul 20, 2024

And establish new agreements that are less harmful and more beneficial. The hope for some of us is that sorting out the new agreements would happen without heads on pikes. Sadly, history has not gone that way. May things change.
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Storygirljo Jul 20, 2024

Currency & Traffic Lights are examples of number 1; Virginity & Gender of number 2.

Some social constructs can benefit all or parts of society for a time. The beauty is that because they are constructs, mere agreements, that if they prove to stop working for society, if they stop benefitting us, or once we realise they were always harmful means of control (virginity, looking at you) then we can change our minds. We can alter the agreement.
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