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tp4tissue:
--- Quote from: fohat.digs on Sun, 14 September 2025, 18:32:04 ---check out this quote from Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter, 1964), from a discussion in a religious context but applicable here:
"Extreme orthodoxy betrays by its very frenzy that the poison of skepticism has entered, for men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt."
--- End quote ---
These things are all written in a context that is blind to ENERGY.
The writers have lofty-ungrounded ideas of Morality/ Religion, the why and how a person Should think DETACHED from the constraints of biological boundaries.
For example, how do you define anti-intellectualism. Is it merely bigotry, deliberate ignorance, mean-ness, cruelty, psychopathy.
Well, all of these seemingly "mal-adaptive" behaviors/traits HAVE their place. If you didn't have SOME baseline of bigotry, you could end up with too much trust. An adversary, or compatriot can TURN on you, not for any moral reason, but merely in response to random conditions, his house burned down, or someone's threatening his kneecaps from debt, and so he HAS TO steal from you.
The opposite would be true, Too much bigotry/psychopathy, you can't make proper connections with other humans, you live a husk of a life in a drunken stupor.
Different traits all work together to balance the system. There are no inherently bad traits. Life systems are orchestral, not solos.
Writing which relies entirely on the author's own Determination of Morality / Culture fail absolutely, and are fundamentally myopic.
So, where are we at with the civilization. BELTS will have to be tightened, across the board. IT's happening right now, Anti-Liberalism will become a necessity, simply because we don't have time to argue, THE COST from the perspective of a Happy-Person today, will be perceived as Tyranny, but in actuality, there is no other option, the Efficiency Curve demands it.
We are Rapidly running out of Energy. That marks the return of Kings and brutal feudal systems.
Tp4, I don't like Feudalism, I don't like to be oppressed, what can I do.
The mind is adaptive, the Antidote to unhappiness is delusion and myth. People imagine or recall another life, and it's almost like they're living it. If you read the dark novels / recollections of dire times, people were able to find something similar to joy in the nothing they owned.
We can avert the entire Armageddon all together if people would just eat Vegetables, but unfortunately, Meat-sickness is very deep.
fohat.digs:
--- Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 14 September 2025, 19:07:22 ---
bigotry, deliberate ignorance, mean-ness, cruelty, psychopathy.
all of these seemingly "mal-adaptive" behaviors/traits HAVE their place.
There are no inherently bad traits.
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I disagree.
tp4tissue:
--- Quote from: fohat.digs on Sun, 14 September 2025, 22:19:12 ---
--- Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 14 September 2025, 19:07:22 ---
bigotry, deliberate ignorance, mean-ness, cruelty, psychopathy.
all of these seemingly "mal-adaptive" behaviors/traits HAVE their place.
There are no inherently bad traits.
--- End quote ---
I disagree.
--- End quote ---
Characteristic of Blue Maga, saying things without thinking about it.
LOYALTY has never mattered to you in the slightest because you grew up in an america of absolute abundance and you perceived no true survival responsibilities your whole life, nothing short of a major accident could've killed you.
This is not to say, Fohat was coddled by parents, he and and all of us have been CODDLED-by-Civilization (rapidly waning).
Loyalty is merely a lighter word for bigotry.
In an inconsequential system, you and your buddies, no big deal.
In a Heavy system, everyone is trying to kill you and take your place, BIGOTRY matters ALOT.
Irrational Loyalty is a critical component, and utilized to ensure the control mechanism stays in place furthering the survival of the group, not necessarily the whole group, soldiers are sent to die, but if they were disloyal, they would not die for the leadership. Soldiers are routinely less intelligent /bigoted, and Highly_Irrationally_Loyal.
There are no bad traits. Everyone has a genetic destiny.
Everyone should eat Vegetables, This is the most horrendous mistake. Animal agriculture is the Holocaust^99999.
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