Oddbean new post about login | logout Calling a spade a spade is fascism now.
I think it’s temperamental. In the mind of the bleeding heart activist type — high in trait neuroticism and agreeableness but low in industriousness — social compliance is the highest order bit. Curiosity or experimentation, ‘truth’, is subordinated to conformity. That’s faux compassion. Faux compassionate positions that sound enlightened, but utterly antisocial behaviour. The great irony of the Progressives. Wolf in sheep’s clothing. Tenzi called you a fascist but Tenzi is a petty reincarnation of Gleichschaltung.
he's not. he's just a troll that wants attention on the internet. you'll see him sending agressive and unwanted responses to anyone on any subject at all, just for the sake of it. He never initiates a conversation, always inserts himself in other people's conversations for the sake of derailing it. he's just a troll, nothing more.
Troll or not, it's always good to have some common sense and willingness for self-reflection #imho
Agreed. Bad manners bring bad reactions. I believe him when he says he gets a lot of ‘hate’ — if you have a chip on your shoulder, everyone you speak to frowns.
You nailed it. And to add...manners (how we act) is the result of how we feel, and how we feel is the result of beliefs (our blueprint)... The matrix is our unconsciousness, it's us (collective unconscious) not having an awareness of what and how we are doing stuff really. And what's underneath manners, emotions, beliefs...is an entire other topic lol.
I am not an activist, neither left nor right. Neither reactionary nor progressive. But disqualifying and silencing opposition ideas is part of the fascism to which you belong.
There’s very little daylight between the political Left and social constructionists. Claims that gender is a societal fabrication, that dissidents of that perspective are only furthering their own arbitrary power, the belief that compliance with dictats from identity groups is mandatory etc — these are all postmodern ideas that have entirely consumed Classical Liberalism as the philosophical foundation of the Left. You say you’re not on the Left but it’s a moot point in a way since your belligerent constructionist ideas are effectively synonymous with the Left.