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Have you signed up on VOAT?

Not yet.

I may tomorrow. Seems like it's getting traction as a platform. I didn't do more than lurk reddit tho.

What all got booted from reddit?

"I don't say that sodomize the weak is our motto". - Brett

what a liar

have you guys listened to the podcast

Yeah lol

It's great

yeah pretty informative so far

I like the part where their dissect alt-right

its really a thing missing in the scene

@MRB coontown, AltRight, and pretty much everything in that vein

@Metalheim yep

@-A faggotty in action

what is alt-right

anti-equality?

or anti-modernity?

or is it the same thing

both

Yup

yes but if you had to choose one

i'd choose anti-equality because its more descriptive

if i had to choose a term to describe the alt-right

@Yarbles if I remember right somebody made the point that modernity gave room for equality. Yes?

One ked to the other so to speak

One led*

It used to be I'm King and chosen by God and we're also unequal in heaven

Then it went well I'm still King but in heaven were going to be equal

Once there was no God there was nothing reinforcing the heirarchy

@MRB yes but what is modernity?

You have to be disconnected from nature to even think that things are equal

as we are

as species

@Yarbles that makes the most sense

what is the opposite of eqalitarian

hierarchy

that is the word that people seem to be afraid of

They're afraid of nature

Ultimately

yes but nature is hierarchical

in its core

like, everyone has its place

but there's always someone stronger or faster than you

Having to admit that is what they fear

And as yarbs said it's ultimately the nature

but that is a frightening thought

Or I would say the natural order.

to the rational part of our brain

It is. But it's more real than out own hamsters

yes

It's the external we fear I think. Completely stepping out of our own bias. A lack of perceived control I suppose.

you nailed it

Ultimately an objective truth that nature provides I suppose.

Sorry, my mom called me needing help with her streaming stuff. Anyway, I think you three nailed it good and hard. If I were to define modernity, though, it would be different from the word itself purely defined. It would mean, in this case, the living concept of Modernism. Modernism is the belief that we have, through some great idea or some great system (more so the latter) we have been elevated beyond the mean, bad old systems of the past. Modernity as modernism is the belief that we are all equal because democracy, enlightenment, cargo cults-as-education and microprocessors. Oh, and medicine.

Functionality yeah that's about right imo

Utilitarianism.

Never been a fan of the greatest utility idea

Too many beans to count lol

That's what I pissed off my ethic prof with anyway

My word. I can only imagine the mental gymnastics of pushing this shit in an ethics class.

Lol

His bias was awesome tho. He posed a question on moral relativism that fucked with people

Something like: if your child was playing at the neighbors house and they believed in child sacrifice would you, as a moa

Moral relativist, allow them to sacrifice your child?

Wow. I can understand how that would trap the young mind, well, the average young mind. After all, you are supposed to be morally relativistic so, you kind of have to.

Yup. Maybe 4-5 peeps saw the trap.

He laughed at everybody that missed it. Great dude n

Total utilitarian tho, which is why I tormented him with bean counting

Lol

How did you do that? Give him make work by compartmentalizing the material in your work as much as possible? Asking trifling but hair splitting and technically relevant questions? High school must have been a blast for you.

Watching the teachers take it so seriously.

Lol yeah. With him it was in a bit of fun though.

I usually do shit like that when I'm bored.

LOL.

A game of cat and also cat in the classroom.

Yup. Most the time they knew what I was up to. Classmates thought they were learning more in depth stuff.

Kind of funny

Those poor, simple bastards.

Yeah. College was fun. Small town hs not so much. Shit teachers waiting out retirement.

Fuck with them and you get an F and have to take the semester over. Right?

Pretty much. Check all the boxes, don't fall in line, be different or difficult. F

Johnny 5-0 waiting to execute the truancy laws first chance he gets...

Yup lol. It was kind of fun tho. The playing sports part anyway lol

I much preferred just being a smart ass all the time. I should have gotten an academic scholarship for running my mouth and sharpening my tongue.

Lol

It got to a point when I just couldn't turn it off and I would completely forget the context of my attitude and the situation I was in. Well, that only lasted for about a year before I realized I actually hurt someone's feelings and that it just wasn't funny. Everybody has their lessons to learn I guess. Now, I don't always have something to say but at the same time, we are so beyond parody that the only thing there is to say to some shit is: "Go on."

Yeah. I pass it off as active listening. Yeah. Oh yeah? Really. Etc

I also have mellowed/matured and met more people that actually respect. I am reasonably softer because I don't feel surrounded by enemies anymore.

Same. I convert what I can. Dont necessarily respect many, but it's functional. The rest. Meh.

Half the shit you and I have talked about in the last 30 would fly over most people I know. I feel like I'm in mentor mode most the time.

That sounds exhausting.

It can be, but I'm creating it as I go.

Creating your special approach to being a mentor?

Creating my own little world is the best way to put it I guess.

Which I suppose we all do and I'm just acknowledging that.

I don't mind. It does hamper my development tho.

I recommend reading more. Get more books on philosophy, science, history (I wish I could find a good source for that cuz there is a lot of bullshit) and even learn new languages in Duo Lingo. Also, look into neuro-cognitive exercises such as here:(http://ludism.org/mentat/BrainBooks) and keep up on etymology and usage of more words. If you maintain a good vocabulary (that for me, begins to dwindle because as much of a smart ass as I am, I am an introvert and go all Nell and make my own language if I am not careful) it can simulate the development that comes from healthy socializing.

As for making your own world, other than the benefits of the Memory Palace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci) as long as you acknowledge that it is your escape, there is an outside and you must be mindful of it, I don't think it causes too much damage.

I read...well a lot lol