Watching The Handmaid Tale has made me realize something fundamental about the liberal mind. Conservatives are viewed as a box into which all the evil of the world is projected. The conservative is the jackboot, the goose-stepper, the monster, the one that gives them feels.
The feels are everything, and all consuming. Everything comes through the lens of the feels. There is nothing outside of it. There is no attempt at context or a larger world view. For all the talk in atheist circles about objectivity the average atheist has no objectivity. And I
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say that as one. Weirdly, the retreat from formal religion makes the human mind more, rather than less, religious, so that everything becomes a superstition viewed through the lens of a pathological self of all consuming "speak your truth" feels.
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I a really weird way Scientology trained me to be more logical than any secular ideology: the cult combines a rigid stigma against The Reactive Mind with all encompassing spiritual view of the world. The world is entirely animist in its conception, with every living thing being
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inhabited by spiritual beings/thetans, except those that are Genetic Entities. This is like the Taoist idea of live force/tao pervading the universe, giving it form and structure, harmonizing it. "Theta conquers MEST," so to speak. Christianity is such an alien mindset to me,
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and so pathologically narcissistic. In fact I think that is the one thing that all western ideology has in common, that all communism and capitalism has in common. I think that is western civilizations defining thing: narcissism. It's narcissistic to believe in a personal
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transcendental God. It's narcissistic to believe in social justice. It's narcissistic to think that one is equal. It's narcissistic to think that one's own petty rights matter. Consumerism and capitalism is narcissistic. Communism, with it focus on liberation, is narcissistic.
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Real objectivity comes from the transcendental realization that YOU DON'T MATTER. This is what is being articulated when we say "Gnon." Women's rights are narcissistic. Freedom is narcissistic. Abstract moral principles — as opposed to personal loyalties to king or client, are
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narcissistic. The tribe is everything and the man is nothing.
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