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Except when I do that I get charged for Rape.Everything is political and we need to insert everything into everything
Yeah, this. Factor in a medium that allows anyone to put their stupid "world-changing" thoughts on blast and presto, infinite echo chambers.Uncle Ted talks about this in his article on the Washington Post.
Basically some people have no way to directly influence the world around them - Ted calls this "participating in the power process" - so they live vicariously though IRL video games AKA politics. They identify strongly with a group and work for that groups supposed goals, experiencing achievement of said goals as a simulacrum of real life achievement.
One problem though: fake achievement doesn't have the same real benefits or emotional sense of fulfillment. My life still sucks; I just fooled myself for a short time into believing otherwise. Thus I need to keep doing it - and doing it more often and in a more extreme manner - to get the same high.
So if I'm an underemployed loser who needs to kiss everyone's ass to survive, I cope by identifying with far-left political organizations and spend my free timeimproving my life and achieving financial independencegetting people fired for petty BS.
tl;dr
In modern society, everything is a Skinner box; we are trapped in the belly of this horrifying machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.
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But before that they'll get kids to play crossgender in school, not tell parents about it and drag parents in front of human rights tribunals if they discover and object.Bourgeois pseudo-Marxism, in which all artistic things must have a moral, and the moral must always be about social power. Nothing can simply be beautiful to these people; all aesthetic things must be morally comforting to them, because they have a juvenile conscience that struggles to define itself against evil.
One day, they'll tattoo PROTECT TRANS KIDS on the wings of butterflies.
I mean the fact that femininity is considered weak, when appropriated by a man, says a lot about femininity. Why are pants default, and skirts the "other?"
But before that they'll get kids to play crossgender in school, not tell parents about it and drag parents in front of human rights tribunals if they discover and object.
Male femininity is weak because he doesn't have the attractiveness and implied fertility to go with it.
Female feminity is sometimes considered weak, because it's power is mostly indirect. The more directly it is used, the more it is attacked.
I could reply to your reply, and then another person chimes in, and then we are falling into the same trap that the OP is addressing
I think it is a mistake, or at the least, unpractical to be too concerned with falling into such a trap or not. Listen to it, sure, but when you start to censor oneself it's going too far.
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I agree that globalism and literacy play a role in it, but podcasts and streams may be where the real influence spread is, more so than by written word.
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Modernism and postmodernism brought with it a general attack on grand narratives historically. We've also seen a general receding of religion/ spirituality. To some degree freud's psychiatry attempted to fill (or create) the hole.
It's not like people lose the desire for big answers and absent any others, politics becomes the substitute. Politicians who tell you why you're miserable or cheated and who is responsible.
But converting people to vote for you isn't effective. You want to convert people to convert people for you. It's the ultimate pyramid scheme. And the end result is that you run into converts all day long, who run everything through that lens, with their political branch as ultimate authority. Especially the people that don't think for themselves crave authority. The uncomfortable thing to accept that all of us like to flatter ourselves that we're far removed from that, while in practice we bow to authorities on a lot of subjects.
And then when we're pawns of ideology and we come to a place where ideas have us rather than us having ideas, there is an endless survival of the fittest.
That's how it seems to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, anyone.
There's another word for "critical thinking". It's "thinking".But I think that what is generalized as "politicising" can loosly fall under the category of "critical thinking."