My evening reading is exciting af, y'all. No shade to people, but this is the most autistic thing I've ever read in my life.
Take this part, for example, where it explains that people who aren't home a lot should live on high floors in high rises with views of nature and take weekend trips to "temporary hotel-type residences" where they can go outside.
The part about how education should be organized, which doesn't seem to have much to do with the ideal city at all and that features endless calculations about how many kids go where, seems to mirror some aspects of Community Schools. Parents are definitely unimportant.
Most of the book is bullshit, so I don't have more now. I read half of this shitshow tonight.
I take it back. In addition to the other parts that don't seem to have anything to do with city organization, there's a lot of giving away what Communism is really about: minimizing work, even if that means freezing or reducing the standard of living. Need less, work less.
There's also a tip of the hand about the weird religion of Communism. It is "a work of conscious creation based on theory."
This looks wholesome and not at all autistic af.
Community Schools definitely make an appearance. @kellyske
@kellyske After preschool, parents need only be burdened by seeing their kids a few times a week and on holidays. Happy Trans Remembrance Day!
@kellyske Starting to look a lot like 15-minute cities. Communal apartments attached to elementary schools that provide lots of services including medical, with up to 225 sq. ft. per person, and cafeterias built into the apartments.
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Woke is what happened when neo-Marxist Critical Theory, especially feminist Postmodern Theory, and Maoist insurgency went to the dumbest part of the university: colleges of education. That's part of why it's so childish. It was designed by morons for kids.
I've put a lot of attention on Paulo Freire for developing the roots of Critical Pedagogy, for example. He got the idea from Mao, says so in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, plus his Liberation Theology (Marxism) and Third-Worldism (Postcolonial Marxism). What's he about?
Have you noticed that Woke people just complain all the time? Like ALL THE TIME about EVERYTHING? That's Paulo! That's neo-Marxist Critical Theory passed through colleges of education. Paulo taught a simple formula in place of education, something even kids and morons can do.
The logic of the day is extremely simple. There is a (Communist) revolution against the West. Those who support the revolution are "the people" (global citizens) who see "from the people's standpoint." Everyone else is "the enemies of the people" who must be hated and destroyed.
I know the font is almost unreadable on many devices, but this is Mao talking about "the people" and "the enemies of the people" in China in 1957. Those who support the revolution are "the people." Those who don't are "the enemies of the people." It's that simple.
This Maoist program is the institutional program of our day in the West. Representatives of "the people" are those who see issues from what Maoists called "the people's standpoint," which is the "context" that means "the people" are always justified, no matter how awful.
Discussion, information, and facts rarely work on people trapped in totalitarian ideologies (like Woke) because they're mainly afraid it will be found out that they believe shameful things, as determined by the cult. The information you give them is a shameful thing to believe.
When you're dealing with a totalitarian (puritanical) cult, most of the people involved are in an "outer school" who barely know any of the doctrine. They just know it's shameful to believe certain things and so either won't (suppression) or hide them. newdiscourses.com/2023/03/wokene…
The "inner school" of the cult, which understands the doctrine, has already fully internalized the cult's shame structure and also has a profound intellectual commitment to it. They have to admit they were wrong about a lot, with consequences, in addition to facing the shaming.
Almost everything the Left does only makes sense when you understand that there are broadly two classes of people with wholly different rules, "the people" and "the enemies of the people," who are not considered valid people. This logic underlies ALL of their thinking.
"The people" are those who support Leftist theory and practice or who might still be trained to do so. "The enemies of the people" are those who resist or reject Leftism, have something Leftists don't want them to have, break from Leftism, or represent any opposing faction.
Nothing "the people" do, so long as it is consistent with advancing Leftism, is wrong. In fact, it's necessary and right. Violence, hate, and malice are"resistance." They are taught these are necessary moral goods and trained to believe it. Actions don't matter. Context does.
In Critical Immigration Theory, immigrants, especially illegal aliens and refugees, are "the people." Settlers (anyone from Western Civilization, at home or elsewhere) are "enemies of the people." This makes sense of all of their confusing positions.
Israelis in Israel are settlers because of ties to Western Civilization. Enemies of the people. Irish people in Ireland are settlers because Western Civilization. Enemies of the people. Your land is stolen land because Westerners stole it, and the people deserve it.
There is no reverse colonization in Critical Immigration Theory. When you see from "the immigrant's standpoint," this is obvious. The settlers have excluded them from a fair share of society, and that's colonization. Taking back their share is "resistance" or "decolonization."
I increasingly think all mysticism is necessarily heresy. It's a desire for more than there is, or more than can be known to be, and therefore rooted in a dissatisfaction with Creation. Individually this matters little if kept in perspective, but it's a dangerous drug.
I got made fun of on here by mystics (heretics) the other day for asking (rhetorically) how a mystical experience can be verified. Of course it can't. That's a category error. In that it cannot be verified, it cannot be a basis for much personal action and or any instruction.
If a mystical experience can't be verified to be what it claims to be—and it cannot—then it cannot be trusted to be rightly interpreted as a basis for activity or instruction. Enjoy it. That's nice. Don't claim to know what it is. That's a "woke" veneer laid atop the experience.