It's fascinating to me how every person in the dissident community (for lack of a better term) is looking at what's going on, and seeing completely different things.
This seems right to me:
"the contemporary Western expressions of psychosis are precisely the manifestation of our culture’s denial of will, agency, consciousness and real relation in the existential experience of sensitive individuals"
But Paul Kingsnorth looks at our situation from an Eastern Orthodox POV, and sees idolatry of the self and self-will. Rudolph Riggery, a physicist, sees a corruption of science, superstition, and irrationality. Jeff Childers, a populist conservative lawyer, sees Marxism rampant.
So what is it that we are actually looking at?
Anyway, in regards to your post, I've been thinking about how my father railed against "the Combine" all of his life (he got the term from Ken Kesey), and wound up swallowing MSNBC's propaganda. If he were alive today he'd surely be railing for war against Russia, and would be unable to see the hypocrisy in wanting other people's children to die for an obscure political motive, when he'd spent so long condemning the government for Vietnam.
This article, so helpful. Thanks. Hey, on this line:
“ Experimental observations such as those of the Milgram & Asch experiments should probably be interpreted as evidence of the strength of these sorts of attachments rather than simplistic hypotheses such as a lack of critical thinking capabilities of the majority.”
…was just in conversation about this. Seems like critical thinking capabilities are not applied where needed most. I mean, the general characteristic is either refusal, or loss of ability to, apply critical thinking capabilities <<to one’s own tribe>> (profession, nation, class, race, self, whatnot). And when lost here, what value are such capabilities applied elsewhere? The least of the effects of this loss is reinforcement of precisely the lack of critical thinking capabilities. I don’t know, I think though this points at meaning having evaporated from your sentence
Pretty much nobody buys an SUV to spite Greta. They were already going to buy that SUV for their own reasons…LOL Fuck Greta is at most an afterthought that you’ve seized on, so that other people can’t have their own valid reasons for wanting something or doing something
It's fascinating to me how every person in the dissident community (for lack of a better term) is looking at what's going on, and seeing completely different things.
This seems right to me:
"the contemporary Western expressions of psychosis are precisely the manifestation of our culture’s denial of will, agency, consciousness and real relation in the existential experience of sensitive individuals"
But Paul Kingsnorth looks at our situation from an Eastern Orthodox POV, and sees idolatry of the self and self-will. Rudolph Riggery, a physicist, sees a corruption of science, superstition, and irrationality. Jeff Childers, a populist conservative lawyer, sees Marxism rampant.
So what is it that we are actually looking at?
Anyway, in regards to your post, I've been thinking about how my father railed against "the Combine" all of his life (he got the term from Ken Kesey), and wound up swallowing MSNBC's propaganda. If he were alive today he'd surely be railing for war against Russia, and would be unable to see the hypocrisy in wanting other people's children to die for an obscure political motive, when he'd spent so long condemning the government for Vietnam.
As he went, so went the Left in America.
This article, so helpful. Thanks. Hey, on this line:
“ Experimental observations such as those of the Milgram & Asch experiments should probably be interpreted as evidence of the strength of these sorts of attachments rather than simplistic hypotheses such as a lack of critical thinking capabilities of the majority.”
…was just in conversation about this. Seems like critical thinking capabilities are not applied where needed most. I mean, the general characteristic is either refusal, or loss of ability to, apply critical thinking capabilities <<to one’s own tribe>> (profession, nation, class, race, self, whatnot). And when lost here, what value are such capabilities applied elsewhere? The least of the effects of this loss is reinforcement of precisely the lack of critical thinking capabilities. I don’t know, I think though this points at meaning having evaporated from your sentence
Excellent article. Thank you.
Pretty much nobody buys an SUV to spite Greta. They were already going to buy that SUV for their own reasons…LOL Fuck Greta is at most an afterthought that you’ve seized on, so that other people can’t have their own valid reasons for wanting something or doing something