Thanks @mattweiner19.bsky.social for signing the guest book at this ruined statue of Ozymandias

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What's the difference between the first two?

Teens are saturated with propaganda and advertising and algorithmically created epistemic "realities". They are picking up what the adults are putting down.

Yes, but I don't blame the teens. The media has explicitly cultivated this image (probably for precisely the reason you mention)

I bet you're gonna delete this for saying "pubic intellectual" but have you considered that you shouldn't? Let there be STET

Wait can you say more about how the first two things add up to, or are compatible, with the third thing?

He had a mean temper when I was younger, so I guess I should appreciate that he's merely a smug narcissist these days.

He's a deeply stupid, ignorant, oblivious person and I hate that my illness has made me financially dependent on him of late. No amount of money spent by him on me can ever make me respect him, but every dollar I need from him makes me lose respect for myself.

Random people on Bluesky have been friendlier & more curious about my horrific depression than my dad who's been staying in a house and hotel with me for weeks. He sees me staying in bed for days at a time, getting up only to drink at the open bar in the evenings, and he doesn't ask anything at all.

Yup. And again, the comparison kinda fits: you wouldn't really need divine justice if there was total justice on Earth.

Exactly. Moral rigor that is totalizing, universal, and totally inaccessible.

I'm frightened

Fair. Should've put "guaranteed" in scare quotes. I don't think what you're saying changes the substance of the comparison with afterlives at all though. "Guaranteed in the afterlife" isn't quite the guarantee I want it to be.

I just wanna give up and die