Mastodawn

"Idiot" is a #ableist term with roots in #eugenics.

@LevZadov @skeletor
No.The book documents its origins in Ancient Greek, referring to those people who refrained from public affairs to concentrate on more purely private concerns, a "civic deficiency" among the polis-minded. It came to connote a state of inadequate informedness, culminating in later drifting into meanings of mental insufficiency. The book is an attempt to revive the very earliest meaning.

I doesn't matter what the word meant to ancient Greeks. The word means what it means to us today. We are not living in ancient Greece and that's a good thing because ancient Greece was a war loving, patriarchal, slave based economy that deserves our disgust, not our emulation.

@LevZadov @skeletor
If you believe the future will be won with such visceral responses (which deny the negotiability of collective meaning and simply dismiss the past instead of regarding it as a resource) then, I would maintain, you do not bring the necessary weapons to the conflict in which we are currently engaged.
I would prefer not to clamor for change by wielding rigidity.

Levka

(1.) Citing the thought processes of a bunch of dead, sexist, war loving, slavers as a justification of anything happening anywhere today *is* clamoring for change by wielding rigidity.

(2.) The past is to be learned from, not lived in.

@LevZadov @skeletor
This response confirms my impression that you are not ready to understand, let alone evaluate, what I am saying... or the means by which I arrive at my conclusions.
This argues that, as far as I am concerned, we are engaged in lobbing semiotic paintballs at each other rather than anything I would deem "discussion".
I bid you farewell

Inspirational Skeletor💀Jun 22

I do not allow ad hominem attacks in my timeline. Baslow is blocked.

gudenau Jun 22

@skeletor If you are the only one with the rights they are a privilege that can be revoked.

gary Jun 22

@skeletor most of it is fake anyways - 'rights' come and go depending on the jurisdiction; the key is to have some degree of fun and arbitrage on the fringes - rights are just societal norms and expectations like the southern border - we cared so much about the economy it may as well have not existed and guess who paid the price - poor american framilies

enDoctore Constagniole Jun 22

Without sacrifice, there are no rights, because there is no need for it, as the law is a reaction to unnecessary sacrifice.

enDoctore Constagniole Jun 22

So the best option is find a way without sacrifice.

enDoctore Constagniole Jun 22

More rights means more restrictions, which is not good at all.

Q. Edwards Jun 22

@skeletor What about if I only care about my wrongs? What then, Mr. Skeletor!?

Rhedyn Thain 🏳️‍⚧️🤡🛹🏳️‍🌈Jun 22

@skeletor there’s some privileged comments here about how rights are made up.
I can only get that we have our typical cis, het, white male saying this.
They should stay in their safe bubble and toot about something they understand like Antiques Roadshow.

Misuse Case Jun 22

@Rhedmtf @skeletor Days without white male cis nonsense: 0

Idiotism

Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new 'common sense'. Using the Greek word idios, meaning...

Pluto Press

"Idiot" is a #ableist term with roots in #eugenics.

@LevZadov @skeletor
...that earlier meaning is why we can use the root in such words as "idiom" and "idiosyncratic" and, medically, "idiopathy".

@LevZadov @skeletor
The book's use of "idiotism" provides a useful critique of the ideology of "possessive individualism" which underlies the field of economics, various forms of libertarianism, Randian Objectivism and the current hyper-individualism that is giving rise to deaths of despair, epidemics of loneliness, addiction, attentional disorders, parasociality displacing sociality, etc.

(1.) Citing the thought processes of a bunch of dead, sexist, war loving, slavers as a justification of anything happening anywhere today *is* clamoring for change by wielding rigidity.

(2.) The past is to be learned from, not lived in.

I do not allow ad hominem attacks in my timeline. Baslow is blocked.

@skeletor

". . . and then they came for me."

Leiya Jun 22

@skeletor I'm not gonna care until other people care about mine. In other words; if your activism doesn't include trans rights I don't care about your rights.

felis_catus_domesticus Jun 22

@skeletor hope the rainbow flag tribes are reading.. and comprehending.

But I won't get my hopes up too high. Just like betting on a losing horse.

felis_catus_domesticus Jun 22

@skeletor

Blacks & Indians in the USA...

Russell_Senpai 🎮Jun 23

@skeletor Skeletor deserves a nobel peace prize for this quote.

Tiny Gamer Alec Jun 23

@skeletor

Yup. You want to keep your rights? Then help make sure EVERYONE has those rights. 'First they Came' by Pastor Niemoller isn't a lament, it's a goddamn WARNING.

DJ Enno Jun 23

@skeletor
I remember a saying, which is attributed to Mahatma Ghandi: The Ganges of rights springs from the Himalayas of duties.