But who cares what a bunch of women think about the right way to date them is? Women literally have negative insight into how they themselves behave in mating games. The things they think work are anti-knowledge, and men who listen to them (on avg) fail to woo them
"respect women" is literally the worst advice you could possibly give to a man who wants to get laid
For more fun facts about women, read this thread, in which we discuss the fact that somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of women surveyed admitted to going on dinner dates with men they had no interest in, just for a meal
@Pseudomastix@GlobalJitterbug@17cShyteposter@Outsideness Let me be a bit less flippant. Crt is critical theory applied to the topic of race. Critical theory is dialectical Marxism scrubbed of the talk about putting people in camps. The point of it is to deconstruct existing power structures in order to pave the way for Marxist utopia
@Pseudomastix@GlobalJitterbug@17cShyteposter@Outsideness It is an attack, it was always meant as an attack, and one of the ways it obscures its objective is through the ridiculous song and dance you are doing now (poorly) by pretending to be a very abstract theoretical type of thing
We have watched each click of the ratchet, as mindless pod people tell us that each new change isn't really happening, it's a crazy conspiracy, and also it's good that it's happening.
Have you ever seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Don't waste your time on any version but the original from 1956. It's a truly chilling film, one of the great classics of sci fi horror, and also a political allegory, as poignant today as it was then
In the story, alien seed pods grow exact replicas of the people all around you, and when you fall asleep, an alien consciousness grown from your pod takes over your body. At first it seems like a mass hysteria of Capgras delusion, but the aliens and pods turn out to be real
This was written off the cuff so I will respond off the cuff. I use a more expansive definition of "folk religion" than gaitanalyst does here. When we think of folk religion we probably think about primitive people in jungles or remote islands, but it's just unorganized religion
People have religious impulses that they will meet one way or another. In this thread I talk about my own personal model for social different needs people have and how they fill them with something practices that take on a "religious" nature
When people who live deep in the jungle and only know their immediate family form a folk religion, it ends up being pretty based and redpilled, because those people have a connection to the earth and to their family.
@Freakoutery@soulsweller@gordonr11430577 I mean look, I was reading moldbug back when he was writing UR, I'm well acquainted with the "crypto calvinism" hypothesis. I don't think it's a great lens, and I think moldbug's cladistic analysis is good but flawed.
@Freakoutery@soulsweller@gordonr11430577 I was writing about this myself a year before that medium article. In my opinion, you go in circles for a while in the "it's a religion, we need to build a better one" rut and eventually you also come out the other side of that
@Freakoutery@soulsweller@gordonr11430577 There are some important ways that woke is a religion; it fits into the same psychological "slots" in the mind, and it fulfills a religious impulse for the people who practice it, with its rituals and gatherings, but there are also some important divergences
@apex_simmaps@FlightAstral@egg_report@kaschuta this type of discussion will always be the parable of the blind men and the elephant. You all know it, and you've had the discussion many times. You are talking about the failure modes of a complex system, trying to pin it on a single root cause
@apex_simmaps@FlightAstral@egg_report@kaschuta but the fact is that when something the size of the USA fails, it's because a whole lot of things went wrong and kept going wrong, and there is no single point that you can fix
@apex_simmaps@FlightAstral@egg_report@kaschuta Randy is absolutely right about the individual psychology of the wokist, but when they all act in concert they use the same words and the same memes and the same thought patterns, so there is something we can abstract there.
I hear people say "right and left" are no longer coherent concepts. This is wrong but I see the temptation. The right lost bigly and no one wants to be on the losing team. How to get out of it? Oh, I know, the teams don't exist! Whew!
That was a close one. Almost had to feel like a loser for a second there. Must protect the positive self-image at all times. I'm not joking, I really mean that.
Common argumentative tactic, if you've been on twitter more than an hour you've seen it: "The concept you're using doesn't exist, it's really just [other concept]" or "it's a false distinction."