pacifism is cowardly when inaction enables bad actors.
not everyone values peace. never assume that just because you’re chill everyone else is too.
the paradox of tolerance is not a paradox.
humanity is what you make it. what do you want it to be? MAKE IT THAT.
don’t let the illusion of a peaceful society lull you into a vulnerable trance. plenty of past civilizations never saw their end coming.
never play fair with your enemy. once you choose violence, your virtues have been compromised. there’s nothing noble about it. it’s simply what has to be done, so do it effectively.
we will never have the society we are capable of as long as we are caught in a tug of war between narcissism and altruism. as long as the narcissists are allowed a place at the table, they will undermine any attempt at utopia for their own interests.
i believe the 21st century began an era in which the utopia that most considered a pipe dream became a feasible reality. we have all the tools and technology now to create a world in which no one suffers, not even the other species of this planet. to have that reality within reach, and to let greedy fascists, shallow narcissists, and religious zealots derail that future, is to make yourself no better then them.
pacifism is cowardly when inaction enables bad actors.
But pacifism isn’t inaction. It is action with the intent to do no harm.
not everyone values peace
The value of peace is social, not individual. You value peace when you know you have everything you want from the status quo. You embrace violence as a means of shifting conditions in your favor.
But violence comes at a grander social price. Simply embracing it because someone else has only compounds the costs.
the paradox of tolerance is not a paradox
The question of a socially acceptable degree of tolerance is a difficult one to answer philosophically and even more difficult to implement as social policy.
It is not strictly a paradox, but it is an unsolved problem.
don’t let the illusion of a peaceful society lull you into a vulnerable trance
The cost of violent action is what dissuades a violent response. People aren’t in a trance, they are taking a calculated risk.
never play fair with your enemy
Violating a social compact erodes trust. You reap a short term gain while everyone pays a long term price.
“Playing fair” is about establishing a social compact that everyone recognizes as beneficial. Violating broadly beneficial norms means accruing more enemies with whom you feel compelled to play unfairly.
the utopia that most considered a pipe dream became a feasible reality
The utopian era ended with WW1 and the industrialization of modern warfare. The 21st century has seen wave after wave of new investments in warfare, while domestic improvements and social welfare advances have ground nearly to a halt.
If there is a utopian future, it can only come with the abolition of international militarism. Otherwise, we continue to descend into generation after generation of escalating conflict and unchecked immolation of life and property.
The utopian era ended with WW1 STFU with your poindexter BS. you know what the fuck i mean when i say utopia.
Buddy, you don’t know what you mean. These words have a historical context. They don’t just mean what you having bouncing around between your ears. Utopianism describes a series of real social movements that involved actual people organizing to build intentional communities. Its not just vibes.
Narcissism is left wing though. That’s why Fox News is always trying to brainwash you into thinking narcissism is destroying America. You didn’t fall for conservative propaganda, did you?
Fucking lol. MAGA is chock full of Boomers ready to vent their bloodlust on their children and grandchildren. “Generation ME,” but yeah, surely not narcissists.
The narcissistic boomers are volunteering for the Harris campaign and participating in local government, so that they can maintain the welfare programs and the libraries and the ACA and the other things they need in their retirement. The boomers who don’t care about their own wellbeing are voting for Trump because they don’t care if he repeals the ACA or destroys their pensions. Narcissists are left wing.
i don’t fox watch news so i have no idea what you’re talking about. i use the word narcissist in the classical sense, i.e. someone who thinks only of themselves and not of the whole.
That’s not the classical sense, that’s the modern pop culture sense. The classical sense is an asexual. But luckily for you, drag was also using the modern pop culture sense when drag said narcissism is left wing.
Fascist movements are primarily made up of submissives. People who want to be dominated. White men who want a big strong man to tell them what to do. Sure, a fascist movement will sometimes have a dom at the top, but half the time it doesn’t even need that. Source: the Crusades. That was nothing but armies of bottoms committing a genocide to please Mummy God.
One in a million fascists is a narcissist. And one in a million narcissists is the leader of a fascist movement. But the other 999,999? They’re all on the left, because they only care about themselves, and the left is the side that actually helps people.
You should want to have friends who only care about themselves, because they’ll want to maintain the friendship and have a good life with you. The friends you gotta watch out for are the selfless assholes. Those are the kinds of people who commit a genocide because Sky Daddy says so.
man, everything you just said is so far askew of reality, i don’t know where to begin to deconstruct it. suffice it to say the sky is not blue in your world and i don’t know what to do with that.
When drag doesn’t understand someone else’s point of view, drag listens to them and uses empathy and tries to reason drag’s way through their worldview. Maybe you could do that.
we will never have the society we are capable of as long as we are caught in a tug of war between narcissism and altruism. as long as the narcissists are allowed a place at the table, they will undermine any attempt at utopia for their own interests.
i believe the 21st century began an era in which the utopia that most considered a pipe dream became a feasible reality. we have all the tools and technology now to create a world in which no one suffers, not even the other species of this planet. to have that reality within reach, and to let greedy fascists, shallow narcissists, and religious zealots derail that future, is to make yourself no better then them.
But pacifism isn’t inaction. It is action with the intent to do no harm.
The value of peace is social, not individual. You value peace when you know you have everything you want from the status quo. You embrace violence as a means of shifting conditions in your favor.
But violence comes at a grander social price. Simply embracing it because someone else has only compounds the costs.
The question of a socially acceptable degree of tolerance is a difficult one to answer philosophically and even more difficult to implement as social policy.
It is not strictly a paradox, but it is an unsolved problem.
The cost of violent action is what dissuades a violent response. People aren’t in a trance, they are taking a calculated risk.
Violating a social compact erodes trust. You reap a short term gain while everyone pays a long term price.
“Playing fair” is about establishing a social compact that everyone recognizes as beneficial. Violating broadly beneficial norms means accruing more enemies with whom you feel compelled to play unfairly.
The utopian era ended with WW1 and the industrialization of modern warfare. The 21st century has seen wave after wave of new investments in warfare, while domestic improvements and social welfare advances have ground nearly to a halt.
If there is a utopian future, it can only come with the abolition of international militarism. Otherwise, we continue to descend into generation after generation of escalating conflict and unchecked immolation of life and property.
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Buddy, you don’t know what you mean. These words have a historical context. They don’t just mean what you having bouncing around between your ears. Utopianism describes a series of real social movements that involved actual people organizing to build intentional communities. Its not just vibes.
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Narcissism is left wing though. That’s why Fox News is always trying to brainwash you into thinking narcissism is destroying America. You didn’t fall for conservative propaganda, did you?
Fucking lol. MAGA is chock full of Boomers ready to vent their bloodlust on their children and grandchildren. “Generation ME,” but yeah, surely not narcissists.
The narcissistic boomers are volunteering for the Harris campaign and participating in local government, so that they can maintain the welfare programs and the libraries and the ACA and the other things they need in their retirement. The boomers who don’t care about their own wellbeing are voting for Trump because they don’t care if he repeals the ACA or destroys their pensions. Narcissists are left wing.
hahaha okay man. I don’t think you understand, ya know, a lot of things, but I wish you the best.
i don’t fox watch news so i have no idea what you’re talking about. i use the word narcissist in the classical sense, i.e. someone who thinks only of themselves and not of the whole.
That’s not the classical sense, that’s the modern pop culture sense. The classical sense is an asexual. But luckily for you, drag was also using the modern pop culture sense when drag said narcissism is left wing.
Fascist movements are primarily made up of submissives. People who want to be dominated. White men who want a big strong man to tell them what to do. Sure, a fascist movement will sometimes have a dom at the top, but half the time it doesn’t even need that. Source: the Crusades. That was nothing but armies of bottoms committing a genocide to please Mummy God.
One in a million fascists is a narcissist. And one in a million narcissists is the leader of a fascist movement. But the other 999,999? They’re all on the left, because they only care about themselves, and the left is the side that actually helps people.
You should want to have friends who only care about themselves, because they’ll want to maintain the friendship and have a good life with you. The friends you gotta watch out for are the selfless assholes. Those are the kinds of people who commit a genocide because Sky Daddy says so.
man, everything you just said is so far askew of reality, i don’t know where to begin to deconstruct it. suffice it to say the sky is not blue in your world and i don’t know what to do with that.
When drag doesn’t understand someone else’s point of view, drag listens to them and uses empathy and tries to reason drag’s way through their worldview. Maybe you could do that.
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