The difference is we know the executives are guilty. They aren’t just random people in a boat.

Or we could just say that a variety of neurological phenotypes is useful for the survival of the social group. Some are awake at night, some during the day, others focus intently one thing, and still others are easily distracted but quick to respond.

See Zizek - meeting one another in profanity.

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They just want riots so they can declare martial law, suspend the constitution, and send their secret police door to door to round up their enemies.

Nah. You have it backwards.

Kamala Harris was a deeply disliked candidate who couldn’t even win a single delegate in the Democratic primary she participated in, who wasn’t chosen through a primary process, openly supported a genocide, and who didn’t offer a clear vision to differentiate herself from Biden.

I vote for the North Atlantic thermo-haline circulation abruptly stopping and causing global chaos because of the detrimental effects on agriculture. I’m certain it’s coming sooner than anyone expects.

A framework of ideas through which to interpret the world. I live in the United States where the capitalist ideology is implicit in the fabric of life itself. People look at you like a lunatic if you question it. This creates a situation where many cannot articulate the problems that face us.

More thought and experiments are needed to discover what social systems are even possible. But we’re up against the ticking clock. We need to do something before capitalism destroys us all.

I’m not arguing with the truth of science. But have you read T.S. Kuhn? Science often advances through the invention of new terms and frameworks which are followed by math and experimental evidence. And it’s true that we have limited knowledge of alternative social systems.

What we need to convince people of is not an awareness of truth, rather it is ideology we must invent and instill. People must be given the tools to discern the situation as we see it for themselves or they will never see the world the way we do.

I mean those points are definitely true, but Plato’s cave is a bad metaphor. It implies a real solid eternal truth. The reality is that truth is continually evolving, a mobile army of metaphors on the bleeding edge of language.

I joined this site with the hope of finding a few like minded people. I’ve been thinking deeply about these ideas in isolation for about a decade now. Political revolution will not be enough to solve the problems that face us. Social revolution will be needed. We need to think carefully.

This is a phenomena I’ve noticed as well. I just use my basic knowledge 中文 to go check Weibo and find out that the Western media is lying. They will do anything to prevent their population from realizing other forms of government can succeed.

I prefer ”troglodyte.”