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“Oh, man is a god when he dreams, but a beggar when he thinks.”
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@Essayful I wish more writers would talk ab their method like this!
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@sharonevolving @Sal_Robins It has less to do with genuine wisdom and more to do with a general tendency toward ‘saftyism’ and risk-aversion, compounded by that fact that social life for them takes place online. Kids now are taking less risks, but are also far more anxious, depressed, and less happy.
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@Sal_Robins Gen Z are having way less sex, using less drugs, drinking less than prev gens. More financially conservative (probably from watching student debt-laden millennials hit the workforce and crash). Gen X parents disdain authority. Think it permeated through to the kids.
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Ernst Jünger survived multiple headshots in WWI
Led his unit to impossible victories
Between battles, he read Nietzsche in his spare time
Wrote notes that became the classic Storm of Steel
Jünger knew pain inside out
His essay On Pain has timeless insights for us
THREAD👇🏻
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Love this letter Martin Buber wrote and signed, telling a reader he only signs books for friends.
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Nostalgia can be very healthy when it inspires within you a vision of a healthy, human, life-affirming future.
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What are your favorite books and essays about ugliness? The digital and ugly? Ugliness and isolation?
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@ZopBop @AlanLevinovitz As Nietzsche points out on several occasions, “use” can mean many different things for different groups.
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@HansGunner2 @AlanLevinovitz But if a person is a high functioning sociopath, has no functional problems at any level, keeps mutually satisfying relationships, and understands others' perspectives, does it matter how they experience feelings and empathy? What's the use of labeling them as mentally ill?
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Deciding what criteria should be used to identify “mental illnesses” and distinguish them from “normal variation” is straight philosophy of medicine.
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@ZopBop @AlanLevinovitz All I’m saying is that functionality in a society might not be the best metric for appraising the health of the soul. (The classic example is of course Nazism, which was comprised of highly “functional” individuals).
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@HansGunner2 @AlanLevinovitz 🤔 got me thinking, but according to the ICD 11 as I understood it sociopathy and psychopathy would fall under personality disorder, and be interpersonal dysfunction (mutually satisfying relationships, understanding others' perspectives)?
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@AlanLevinovitz Reminds me of Tom Sazsz notion of the myth of mental disease
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@ZopBop @AlanLevinovitz Sociopathy often flourishes in well-functioning individuals
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@AlanLevinovitz Okay but what if we try to define functionality instead of mental illness? Can they function in society?, if a person can't keep a job, or keep mutually satisfying relationships, or learn to avoid self harm, they could be defined as dysfunctional, would this be a better criteria?
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@martyrmade Peter Beard speaks of the time when he was living in Africa, and the wild elephants were for the first time sequestered into a wildlife preserve. They immediately stopped mating, the herd divided itself between males and females and all starved to death.
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If something happened - atmospheric change, a delayed-trigger genetic mutation, a virus, etc - that split humanity into two halves that were physically and behaviorally identical, but no longer able to mate w/each other, an uncompromising genocidal war would immediately ensue.
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“In the virtual world we all live in an American small town which is a monstrosity.”
- Jean Baudrillard
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The inequities of the Vietnam-era draft, when some kids fought and the kids of those who sent them stayed on campus and strummed their mellow tunes, have rippled through the decades like a wave form and distorted everything we see today.
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@HansGunner2 Regret I won’t have time on this trip as the good people at @Regnery have a lot lined up for me - but I’m bound to be back over, drop me a line and I’ll see what can be done
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Very excited to say I’ll be out in the USA for a few days at the end of April, to celebrate the US launch of Feminism Against Progress. Here’s where you can find me reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/us-road-trip
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@jmrphy enjoyed your article “A Child Is Not The Most Important Thing” and I get your point about the importance of emotional stoicism for fathers steering the ship. But how should this play out in pre-paternity?
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Should we use AI to aggressively brainwash the worst people and trap them in addictive digital maze worlds, so they can’t do any harm in society?
Life for them will feel as good as it possibly could, so it’s not unethical if their own vices cause them to fall in to the trap.
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