Bioleninism is a deal between people who are natural enemies of that which is functional; as long as functional institutions remain in power the bioleninist deal will persist, but once the functional has been destroyed, the deal 100% over and the participants start infighting.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @thespandrell and
"We are allies because we're all oppressed" means the alliance is finished the second the "oppression" finishes.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @thespandrell and
What I mean by this is that if at some point the thing we call Western Civilization stops working, the SoJus alliance will disintegrate. I don't mean that when we finally eliminate microaggressions and all the movies pass the Bechdel Test the SoJus alliance will disband ...
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Replying to @RokoMijic @thespandrell and
There will always be more microaggressions and nanoaggresions and femtoaggressions etc for SoJus to complain about. What I mean is when the electricity, food, police etc stop working, suddenly SoJus will vanish and people will go back to clans based on races.
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Replying to @thespandrell @CovfefeAnon and
I don't think that's the only way for it to stop, but that's the trajectory that SoJus takes us on. Death of the patient is the natural outcome of an aggressive cancer, but it's not the only possible outcome.
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Replying to @thespandrell @CovfefeAnon and
Oftentimes in these situations there's either nothing you can do, or the problem will fix itself whatever you do. But to the extent that any person has any influence I think it's worth preparing reasonable alternative viewpoints that will be ready to go if people get fed up...
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Replying to @RokoMijic @thespandrell and
... and especially to "place pieces on the board" to avoid a reaction that goes too far.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @thespandrell and
Also I think the time might be ripe to disintermediate the universities, journals etc. Perhaps that's just a dream though.
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Disintermediate, defund, disintegrate, demolish, devastate from orbital bombardment - whatever works.
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