Nuki Raccoon: Fedi's Favorite Furry F***posterDec 18, 2024

Snippet of a conversation from #Modders that went through my head earlier, writing it down here to add to the draft later...

"I guess I just needed permission from... someone, anyone, to go through with it." He sighed, smiling, "I thought I scored pretty high on the deviancy scale, but I guess I still have a ways to go..."

"The deviancy scale can only measure against the general population, it can't measure the personal struggle we all have to go through. There's always another inhibition you need to overcome, another arbitrary rule you need to break yourself of with logic and reason. I can't tell you how many times I thought I had nearly mastered Total Acceptance when I was your age, only to find some other wide thing I was cringing at and didn't know why... I still find things I have trouble accepting, and need to work on. I guess that's just part of the human struggle, no matter how much you augment your brain, you still have something to learn and accept..."

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You know, suddenly, this implies to me that there is a structured #philosophy in the future of #Modders, a combination of #stoicism, #hedonism, and #science, call it #StoicHedonism if you will, in which practitioners aim to break down inhibitions and the judgmental side of them, and achieve "total acceptance" of the world around them...

In a sense, they've made a whole school of thought out of "don't kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part of you that cringes."

Perhaps I should be writing that down on top of the other stuff.

Also, thinking about how I've never fully written out the idea of a "#deviancy scale" or a test with it outside of this thing, and I know that's actually a really important metric for a lot of things in applied #psychology, so that might be interesting to write about too...

Dec 18, 2024 at 5:50pmWeb