Be wary of moral beauty 🧵
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"No one is wilfully evil. It is enough for a man to know what is good for him necessarily to do it."
For Socrates, the authentic practice of virtue presupposes knowing the essence of the Good.
"Know thyself" is therefore an invitation that means "discover the good that is in you; listen to the divinity that speaks to your conscience".
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"Let humanity perish rather than the principle! This has been the motto of utopians and fanatics throughout the ages. Socialism, interpreted in this way, has become a religion […] which in the nineteenth century is the least revolutionary of all."
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1851, in "Idée générale de la Révolution au XIXe siècle"
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"What Is to Be Done?"
"Class political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without; that is, only from outside the economic struggle, from outside the sphere of relations between workers and employers."
In his world-changing essay (in 1902), Lenin convinced the reader of the method. The pamphlet did not question the ideology, the values. We must do such questioning: "from outside the" states and money.
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"We’re debating […] dead moral questions, and for the same reason we always do: because that debate allows us to ignore the ones that might lead us to a different place than the celebration of our own liberal righteousness."
Fredrik deBoer, 2015, https://ianaxelanderson.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/fredrik-deboer-on-debating-dead-moral-questions/
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Here below are tidbits about a fantasy short novel https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/the-last-wish/section5/
(The Lesser Evil, by Andrzej Sapkowski)
“Ultimately, he makes a choice to eliminate what he believes to be a greater evil.
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“The shock he experiences in this moment leads to a feeling of dissociation from his body. This shows that Geralt has been traumatized by the event.
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“This shows that Geralt regrets killing Renfri and realizes he made a mistake. He does not try to explain his actions.
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“Renfri actively works to save herself from people who fear her. Ultimately, this leads to her death.
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“This chapter explores how an individual’s perception of a situation can either hide or reveal the truth.
A summary of The Lesser Evil in Andrzej Sapkowski''s The Last Wish. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Last Wish and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Spot and discard!
1. identify distractions (news, entertainement, debates, values, campaigns, renewables, transition)
2. identify the issues that require addressing (nationalism, sexual violence, extractivism, degrowth, activism)
3. urgently avoid fueling distractions
4. do not acquiesce on people fueling distractions.
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“I joined this fight like an idiot… And do you know why? I wanted the girl, sobbing with gratitude, to kiss her saviour on the hands, and her father to thank me on his knees. In reality her father fled with his attackers, and the girl, drenched in the bald man’s blood, threw up, became hysterical and fainted in fear…”
Said the hero in "The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski
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"Let’s take that number-one narrative, which is I was taught to treat everyone the same. You know, actually no one was - or could be taught to treat everyone the same. We can’t do it. We don’t do it."
"A white progressive generally believes niceness is all that it takes. As long as I’m nice and friendly, I’m finished. And niceness not only is not courageous. But niceness is not going to get racism on the table."
NPR’s Jennifer Ludden talks to author Robin DiAngelo about her book, "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism": https://www.npr.org/2018/08/18/639822895/robin-diangelo-on-white-peoples-fragility
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I am driven by my emotions.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/another-country
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A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.
Wrote @chadloder on 2026-04-10 at Bluesky
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