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Philosophy 1: Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel

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Where am I? Who am I?
How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director?
I want to see him.​
S?ren Kierkegaard

And if I didn't ask to exist, it's pretty rude to charge me money for it!
 
joecct said:
If you haven't subscribed to The Free Press, I'd urge you do drop $8 / month. Here is a recent article:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bariwe...ndroid&r=fxy5t
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I recommend reading that piece as it is an excellent example of a prevalent reaction among conservatives, and teaches us much about them. This is the money shot:

The goal of demoralization is to gradually degrade the foundations of a healthy society across all domains by erasing moral lines and exploiting preexisting discontents. What a society used to call abnormal and pathological, subversion normalizes. Just consider, for example, our culture’s attitude toward pedophiles, now rebranded as “minor-attracted persons.” By hijacking the legacy and language of the civil rights movement, nearly any “marginalized” group has a vehicle to try to “mainstream” deviant behavior. Consider the fact that across civilized societies it is not just “wrong” to say that a man cannot become a woman. It is thought to be cruel.
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Everything in the reactionary psyche is there. (1) The axiom that traditional prejudices and bigotries are the natural baseline of goodness, and any attempt to change them is "decadence." The idea is to remove those attitudes from the universe of potential choices we make and instead privilege them as normal, divinely-inspired, sane -- in other words, not a choice but a condition of health. Authoritarians have always used the language of disease to castigate the groups they attack. (2) Hyperbole reaching the level of satire. The tactic of merging the attacked groups with pedophiles deliberately ignores the bright line that we always make about sexual behavior: consent. Children cannot consent, therefore pedophilia is not defensible; full stop. It would be more humorous to see this deflection to alarmism by the Christian Right when it recognizes it has no real argument were it not for the monotonously high incidence of child predation by authority figures and believers from the Christian Right. The call is coming from inside their house. (3) Pride in callousness. The Right frequently argues that humanitarian appeals are irrelevant because this is a matter of historical, logical, or doctrinal orthodoxy. "We have no choice to be cruel," they posture. So it has always been with those who imagine acting out their revenge fantasies is the saving of souls.

It is important to note that Joe is not a fool, not a mean person, not a frothing-mouthed delusional fanatic. The social psychology of how good people like Joe can talk themselves into authoritarian stances is a key to understanding the surge of far right hate groups, playing out in every democracy. There is much to poke fun at in this article, but much more to be sad about, seeing so much ink spilled as a transparent pretext to defend one simple proposition:

"That which scares me and contradicts what I was raised to believe is an evil that imperils the world, and we must repress it as a duty to mankind."
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That is the evergreen appeal of reactionary psychology, and we need to study it further.
 
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That first paragraph is absolutely vile. Let me guess, it's used as justification for anti-LGBTQ line of thought later?
 
Nice touch in the first episode of The Boys S4. When we meet Sage she is reading Naming and Necessity, by Saul Kripke, one of the books in my library which I have tried to read at least 3 times and which is still too much for me. At the end of the episode credits I noticed the creator is Eric Kripke.

I thought maybe son. Cousin.
 
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Reading the Myth of Sisyphus over again.

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy." But did Sisyphus ever have to deal with the fucking dishes and the fucking laundry?
 
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