Getting drunk for Gaza is like being gay for Hamas. It's incredible to see the result of social conditioning. People vehemently and fanatically advocating for people and things that are entirely against their own interests.
250 years ago, there was a massive triumph of thought over feeling. It wasn't complete, but it allowed for the Western world to prosper ever since. It allowed for a large portion of the population to no longer rely on superstion and feeling, but a new trifecta of reason, rationalism, and logic.
In our century, all of that progress is eroding. The irrational, the inconsequential, the moribund decline of thought into a narcissistic addiction to an equivalency of all opinion, no matter how vapid or uninformed.
The cheap easy opinion that requires no thought. The reduction of a person to those asinine opinions. They are who they fuck. They are the opinions they keep warm by. The very same blind faith in the flagellation of virtue as the ultimate redeemer. They are no different than the same fanatics who would risk their own lives, convinced that their faith will save them at the last minute. Wasted, empty lives that achieve nothing, accomplish nothing, and lack the patience or dedication to even begin to learn. A pathetic wash of writhing stupidity.
Its been a long time since I’ve seen someone articulate the deep-seated pathology and hypocrisy of those people so well.
People find comfort and confidence in the certainty/stability given by their fixed worldview - but delusion can only be upheld so long, and it costs a lot of energy to do so. They associate themselves so strongly with their worldview that it becomes part of their identity, their perceived notion of self.
Every time they get confronted with something outside or in any way in opposition to their worldview/frame, its not only perceived as an attack on the given worldview - but its an attack on their identity, the core of what they perceive themselves to be.
That is why many people become unreasonable, emotional in some interactions. They have to desperately defend certain opinions because those opinions have become their very self. And if their artificial construct/worldview fell apart their whole psychology would fall apart.
Ignorance can give comfort but it only works in isolation. When confronted with reality one will suffer.
Those walls of self-preservation are walls of self-imprisonment. They will only be able to look at reality trough a limited frame unable to recognise truth when its right in front of them, ever a slave of circumstance. Unwilling to take responsibility for their own existence they stomp about in blind confidence, trampling the essence of their own humanity and negatively effecting others in the process. Its utterly pathetic and disgraceful.
All their empathy extends to is their own pathological self-gratification and comfort. The essence of humanity is the ability to act beyond primary conditioning and compulsion, taking agency over oneself irrespective of circumstance. They not only self-righteously sacrifice everyone to uphold their delusions, but even worse, are traitors to the core essence of what makes them human.
The truly virtuous would view beyond what looks good and feels right, ignoring temporary comfort and convenience, and do what IS good. What they do is a perversion of the essence of the very virtue they preach. Truly a parasitic, pathetic wash of writhing stupidity.
Sustainable comfort wont be achieved trough limitation and control of the environment. Limitation is ignorance and death, while the environment will always be impossible to fully control. But one can take control over oneself, which is the only way to stop being a slave.
In a crisis; they are the desperate capitulators who will sell everyone else for their own safety. The ones who have never considered the value of what was given to them at birth as unique and unprecedented in the course of human history. What's worse; it is a crisis they and their like minded created and caused.
The revolutionary socialists of the first French Revolution, the many anarchists, socialists, and pseudo-liberals of the revolutions of the 1830s. Frankly going back to the Nika Riots of late Rome. There are always a collection of the population who manically and mindlessly respond to the circumstances they've created with the same mindless and irrational response that created the crisis in the first instance.
We live in a society now - where political philosophy is rarely studied and then via a selective lense. History is studied by the same lense. The greatest thinkers of our collective experience are often dismissed or demonised.
The consequence of a lack of respect for history is that we must once again learn the same lessons. The tragedy is that we are once again at threat to our core, at the height of accomplishment and grace.
Through adversity of the wars of the 20th century we managed stalwart belief in what we are as a civilisation, only for the fruit of that sacrifice to be wasted.
The problem is that few get to experience it, because most people fundamentally incapacitated themselves from doing so by refusing to bare the responsibility for their own existence.
Stabbing themselves and cursing the sky for bleeding. They decorate their cages with purpose, call their limits “identity“ and name their compulsions “destiny“. The identity politics nonsense is what true savagery looks like, not the elimination of a threat to civilisation.
All ultimately creating a society that glorifies the mutual affirmation of ignorance over humanity.
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
I suggest to anyone to read the following thinkers;
Eric Hoffer (specifically, The True Believer) first and foremost
M. Machiavelli (his collective works as a baseline).
Voltaire
Locke
Dx. Metternich
Comte de Tocqueville
Clausewitz
Strauss
Kissinger
If someone wants a decent basis of reasoned governance, it isn't pretty. These are a few thinkers who might be worth considering.
I've spent a lot of time on the works of these and others. It is easy to just bitch or buff on social media. It is difficult, and now suspicious to even consider what our historical thinkers even had to say.
Human behaviour and psychology is rather simple and becomes pretty obvious when you recognise the essence of the given structure (human persona) and deduce the reason for a certain cause from it by looking at the chain of cause and effect, which connects the underlying essence to the manifestation (given action/situation).
I have never really read anything but fantasy novels for entertainment, but I could still easily give an accurate in depth breakdown of anything concerning geopolitics, sociology, etc.
This may sound arrogant but it isn’t as complex as it might seem and might be more effective to learn for most people.
You essentially suggested to learn the given patterns (chains of cause and effect) that are recorded in history/experience, then enabling people to easily identify them and see the logical future development and past causes that lead to the present situation. This will always work because the fundamental structure of human psychology never changes. (Hence the saying that history repeats itself - its not different from saying that humans essentially never change. Or the saying that nothing ever happens - because if something only repeats and nothing new gets introduced, is it even truly alive?)
But by understanding the fundamental structure itself all those patterns become obvious and natural without needing to create artificial understanding by inferring from history. No book will grant you eyes. Truth simply is and can be seen when one opens them. That would be true understanding, true knowledge.
Anyway, how do people get a grasp on the fundamental human structure? By simply acting and being more aware. Recognise your own behaviour - action and reaction - and reflect upon it constantly, getting nearer to the source. Don’t walk around like a zombie, but observe. Slowly clarity will be distilled from the initial confusion (can happen fast as well). And by understanding and mastering oneself, one will gain confidence trough clarity, not trough the clinging to rigid assumptions. Thats the main problem. People act like they know, but all they do is shackle themselves to flimsy delusions. They accumulate information and emulate understanding but are afraid of real clarity. People who aren’t even in dominion over themselves tell others what to do, whats right and wrong. Interestingly having a certain amount of control over oneself isn’t different from being mature. We distinguish childish from mature behaviour by how impulsive it is etc.
Now that I articulated it, your suggestion might actually be the more realistic, effective one, haha. Maybe do both.
As an unprofessional doctor, my diagnosis is: Fully manifested main character syndrome.
Getting drunk for Gaza is like being gay for Hamas. It's incredible to see the result of social conditioning. People vehemently and fanatically advocating for people and things that are entirely against their own interests.
250 years ago, there was a massive triumph of thought over feeling. It wasn't complete, but it allowed for the Western world to prosper ever since. It allowed for a large portion of the population to no longer rely on superstion and feeling, but a new trifecta of reason, rationalism, and logic.
In our century, all of that progress is eroding. The irrational, the inconsequential, the moribund decline of thought into a narcissistic addiction to an equivalency of all opinion, no matter how vapid or uninformed.
The cheap easy opinion that requires no thought. The reduction of a person to those asinine opinions. They are who they fuck. They are the opinions they keep warm by. The very same blind faith in the flagellation of virtue as the ultimate redeemer. They are no different than the same fanatics who would risk their own lives, convinced that their faith will save them at the last minute. Wasted, empty lives that achieve nothing, accomplish nothing, and lack the patience or dedication to even begin to learn. A pathetic wash of writhing stupidity.
Joseph Wright of Derby
Its been a long time since I’ve seen someone articulate the deep-seated pathology and hypocrisy of those people so well.
People find comfort and confidence in the certainty/stability given by their fixed worldview - but delusion can only be upheld so long, and it costs a lot of energy to do so. They associate themselves so strongly with their worldview that it becomes part of their identity, their perceived notion of self.
Every time they get confronted with something outside or in any way in opposition to their worldview/frame, its not only perceived as an attack on the given worldview - but its an attack on their identity, the core of what they perceive themselves to be.
That is why many people become unreasonable, emotional in some interactions. They have to desperately defend certain opinions because those opinions have become their very self. And if their artificial construct/worldview fell apart their whole psychology would fall apart.
Ignorance can give comfort but it only works in isolation. When confronted with reality one will suffer.
Those walls of self-preservation are walls of self-imprisonment. They will only be able to look at reality trough a limited frame unable to recognise truth when its right in front of them, ever a slave of circumstance. Unwilling to take responsibility for their own existence they stomp about in blind confidence, trampling the essence of their own humanity and negatively effecting others in the process. Its utterly pathetic and disgraceful.
All their empathy extends to is their own pathological self-gratification and comfort. The essence of humanity is the ability to act beyond primary conditioning and compulsion, taking agency over oneself irrespective of circumstance. They not only self-righteously sacrifice everyone to uphold their delusions, but even worse, are traitors to the core essence of what makes them human.
The truly virtuous would view beyond what looks good and feels right, ignoring temporary comfort and convenience, and do what IS good. What they do is a perversion of the essence of the very virtue they preach. Truly a parasitic, pathetic wash of writhing stupidity.
Sustainable comfort wont be achieved trough limitation and control of the environment. Limitation is ignorance and death, while the environment will always be impossible to fully control. But one can take control over oneself, which is the only way to stop being a slave.
Thank You Kindly,
In a crisis; they are the desperate capitulators who will sell everyone else for their own safety. The ones who have never considered the value of what was given to them at birth as unique and unprecedented in the course of human history. What's worse; it is a crisis they and their like minded created and caused.
The revolutionary socialists of the first French Revolution, the many anarchists, socialists, and pseudo-liberals of the revolutions of the 1830s. Frankly going back to the Nika Riots of late Rome. There are always a collection of the population who manically and mindlessly respond to the circumstances they've created with the same mindless and irrational response that created the crisis in the first instance.
We live in a society now - where political philosophy is rarely studied and then via a selective lense. History is studied by the same lense. The greatest thinkers of our collective experience are often dismissed or demonised.
The consequence of a lack of respect for history is that we must once again learn the same lessons. The tragedy is that we are once again at threat to our core, at the height of accomplishment and grace.
Through adversity of the wars of the 20th century we managed stalwart belief in what we are as a civilisation, only for the fruit of that sacrifice to be wasted.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
And the gift of freedom is life.
The problem is that few get to experience it, because most people fundamentally incapacitated themselves from doing so by refusing to bare the responsibility for their own existence.
Stabbing themselves and cursing the sky for bleeding. They decorate their cages with purpose, call their limits “identity“ and name their compulsions “destiny“. The identity politics nonsense is what true savagery looks like, not the elimination of a threat to civilisation.
All ultimately creating a society that glorifies the mutual affirmation of ignorance over humanity.
Thanotopsis by William Cullen Bryant
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
I suggest to anyone to read the following thinkers;
If someone wants a decent basis of reasoned governance, it isn't pretty. These are a few thinkers who might be worth considering.
I've spent a lot of time on the works of these and others. It is easy to just bitch or buff on social media. It is difficult, and now suspicious to even consider what our historical thinkers even had to say.
Human behaviour and psychology is rather simple and becomes pretty obvious when you recognise the essence of the given structure (human persona) and deduce the reason for a certain cause from it by looking at the chain of cause and effect, which connects the underlying essence to the manifestation (given action/situation).
I have never really read anything but fantasy novels for entertainment, but I could still easily give an accurate in depth breakdown of anything concerning geopolitics, sociology, etc.
This may sound arrogant but it isn’t as complex as it might seem and might be more effective to learn for most people.
You essentially suggested to learn the given patterns (chains of cause and effect) that are recorded in history/experience, then enabling people to easily identify them and see the logical future development and past causes that lead to the present situation. This will always work because the fundamental structure of human psychology never changes. (Hence the saying that history repeats itself - its not different from saying that humans essentially never change. Or the saying that nothing ever happens - because if something only repeats and nothing new gets introduced, is it even truly alive?)
But by understanding the fundamental structure itself all those patterns become obvious and natural without needing to create artificial understanding by inferring from history. No book will grant you eyes. Truth simply is and can be seen when one opens them. That would be true understanding, true knowledge.
Anyway, how do people get a grasp on the fundamental human structure? By simply acting and being more aware. Recognise your own behaviour - action and reaction - and reflect upon it constantly, getting nearer to the source. Don’t walk around like a zombie, but observe. Slowly clarity will be distilled from the initial confusion (can happen fast as well). And by understanding and mastering oneself, one will gain confidence trough clarity, not trough the clinging to rigid assumptions. Thats the main problem. People act like they know, but all they do is shackle themselves to flimsy delusions. They accumulate information and emulate understanding but are afraid of real clarity. People who aren’t even in dominion over themselves tell others what to do, whats right and wrong. Interestingly having a certain amount of control over oneself isn’t different from being mature. We distinguish childish from mature behaviour by how impulsive it is etc.
Now that I articulated it, your suggestion might actually be the more realistic, effective one, haha. Maybe do both.
Bro out here writing his thesis in the asmongold subreddit
It's nice to see people being fed up of these morons
Same lady would cry if they saw a maga hat
None more insufferable than these people
Drinking justice?🤔 Maybe they were just caught daydreaming about watching "The Naked Brothers" when they were a kid.
I'm sure the people in Gaza appreciate this outburst. This must've improved their lives by like 100x
What is wrong with people at comedy show