Clueless by SamNone of this is inevitable. None of it. There is a very small number of determined psychopaths causing all of this fuckery and they have names and addresses
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Anton Gerasimov@pikesley all the religious traditions, all the philosophical traditions did not exist obviously. Thinking was invented by Freud in 1910, before it was only doing
Chip Butty@pikesley why are they so ahistorical and ignorant of literature.
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Flaming Cheeto@pikesley At first look, I thought this guy was wearing a shirt that read "You don't have any"
Reay@pikesley What utter bullshit.
First off, he’s wrong about how long introspection has been around. Let’s start with the Buddhist practices of looking inward to better understand yourself, for just one example.
Secondly, arguing that something isn’t worth doing entirely because it’s a more modern concept is objectively ridiculous. If that were genuinely his reasoning for how he chooses to live, he wouldn’t accept America as a concept, wouldn’t use automobiles, and would never have employed a computer or telephone.
Yet another billionaire who thinks what he says is de facto correct, let alone valuable.
My camera shoots fascists"let alone valuable" is they key here. It is an almost universal quality of billionaire tech bros that they universalize their success in one field or their otherwise limited domain expertise to all of life.
Musk suddenly thinking he is an underwater cave rescue expert is maybe the most memorable example.
This is IMO partly the fault of journalists who give them a platform. None of these people should be interviewed about things they have no actual qualifications to discuss. Let them blabber all they want on their own social media accounts or blogs like the rest of us. Don't give them credibility by mainstreaming their sociopathic viewpoints.
Tattie@reay agreed, and yet his choice of when to pin this concept down— the early twentieth century, "people like Freud"— is not arbitrary, does not come from nowhere. This is a recycling of Nazi propaganda, which equates intellectualism with Jewishness and docility, to be contrasted with dynamic, Aryan masculinity. People who just do, and don't think about it. (And who conveniently don't question what they are told).
His word "guilt" in particular jumps out to me as notable, and also resonant with the period. The Germans were suffering after heavy punishments as a result of the First World War, and rather than owning that guilt, descended into this mania where everything was the fault of the Jews, and other "impurities", which were preventing Germany from becoming great and powerful.
The same thing is happening now. Capitalist leaders are refusing to own the guilt about inequality, climate change, oppression... they know they should feel guilt but they're pursuing this manic strategy instead where they tell themselves they are powerful and wonderful and every bad thing is someone else's fault.
In both cases, introspection risks this frame collapsing. So introspection itself must be labelled bad— and the association with Jewishness seems to work for that today just as it did a century ago.
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Tony Petrangelo@pikesley funny how llms also are wrong about basic facts and lack introspection
Nate Barham@pikesley Yo, somebody better check on the Greeks!
John Leach@pikesley *raises voice over the sound of a thousand desperate screaming inner daemons* Andressen: No I have no inner daemons.