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 MTL
Joined January 2025
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Pigeons definitely have gotten worse at flying in my lifetime. Pigeon society has become decadent
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One thing I will say for the physical media crowd: I can sit down with an actual book & an hour or two will go by Just Like That, but reading a pdf for ten minutes without distraction feels like it takes actual effort
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Ideologies are fantasies that strive for the illusion of Objective Truth by making themselves one's default narrative frame. Thus every ideology must condemn a large variety of competing fantasies using a variety of magic terms: degenerate, problematic, impractical, childish etc
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One clever move that can be done is to freely offer defanged facsimiles of competing fantasies as a harmless diversion & nothing more. To cement the idea "these are just daydreams, and not something w/ actual transformative potential" rather than making them forbidden fruit
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a person flipping between being extremely optimistic & extremely pessimistic about the future on like a weekly basis quickly starts to look very silly to me in a way that'd be hard to undo
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aka why i try to avoid any & all financial discussion on this webzone
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Having a certain set of stated beliefs does not make one A Good Person
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Cyclic History is one of those things where when you first hear about it, it sounds like an invitation to secret knowledge, but it actually conditions one to think *less*, to just smugly sit back & go "I've seen this before..." Probably many things like this
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"Doomers Right // Heeded Them": congratz u have unlocked despair faster, Go You "Doomers Right // Ignored Them": false hope gives solace for many years "Doomers Wrong // Ignored Them": most satisfying victory "Doomers Wrong // Heeded Them": worst defeat, less than human
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Perhaps the real False Consciousness is the mind's tendency to, no matter how unsatisfactory the situation, construct narratives that "this is how things must be done" & "any attempt to do it differently is destined to fail", merely out of short-term convenience
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Agency interpreted either as a Primordial Willing that exists prior to the mechanistic animal mind, that gets papered over by it - or as some kind of higher abstract ordering principle constructed out of the animal mind, but no longer beholden to it
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Avoid temptation to reframe unconscious biases (eg one's level of risk tolerance or aversion) as objective moral/political Good Sense that has been consciously eked out. Do not develop Stockholm syndrome for this cluster of bad habits you call your identity
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Both "higher mind" & "subconscious" construct a narrative of subjective exp as this layered thing, of which the "Me, Right Now" layer is but one (usually superficial) aspect. Presumably both narratives share certain imperatives, and also have points of divergence
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The subconscious is a more mundane framing, suggesting that individuated consciousness is constructed out of a large number of mechanical impulses, and that coming to understand these impulses gives one a greater degree of control in their life
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Worth noting that, though subconscious typically shies away from spiritual notions such as "the mind creates reality", there is still the implication of some kind of primordial logic that dictates all things, which one might hope to understand and control
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(quicktime version just to test if it still has that annoying gap at the end)
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The ten thousand hours rule is fake af, there's webcomics that have been updating daily since the 1990s & they still look like they were drawn by a gorilla trained to use a Wacom tablet as a Frisbee
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"how Freudian", ie suggesting someone's views are the product of unconscious sexual proclivities - sometimes done in earnest, but often suggests something about the observer themselves, eg as one who desires to see said proclivities at play everywhere
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