Suppose you have agency, inner life, &c. And you decide, using the marvelous brightness in your soul, to watch 60 hours of game of thrones. Because you are normal, you now have thoughts about John snow and Daenerys, thoughts which you share with millions of others
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And there is nothing wrong with enjoying a TV show, but when millions of people watch the same TV show, and the same news commentators, and read the same articles, they think all the same thoughts, literally the same thoughts, with the same words, the same words we all heard
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We all have looping behaviors because life is on average repetitive. People are predictable despite individual variation in the same way that thermodynamic systems are predictable without modeling every individual particle.
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Industrialization is a process of mass repetition and homogenization. Industrial man is highly repetitive and homogenized, and the mechanism that repeats and homogenizes is broadcast media. Before that it was books and pamphlets and newspapers
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Judging from this tweet, guessing you broadly agree with Kaczynski’s arguments in “Industrial Society and it’s Future”, in particular, regarding oversocialization?
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It’s an interesting mental model. There is truth to it, maybe not complete truth. I do not find the conclusions of his essay to be correct, and I don’t agree with bombing anyone
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Excuse my ambiguity, was referring to his thoughts on the ailments of the Leftist. The NPC as an oversocialized entity is the most fitting explanation I’ve come across thus far personally. Great points on HNU also, will need some time to digest. Thanks for the content as always.
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I think his analysis of leftist psychology is the part of the essay that is worth reading
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Spent a while reading it recently. Personally found it a bit “harsh” on the Leftist; inferiority and oversocialization aren’t as endemic to the Left as he seems to convey. Interesting to see that both traits are becoming increasingly prevalent across the spectrum over time.
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“Sympathy for the leftist”, very good. Mostly when I think about leftists I imagine a lot of idealistic people who have never known real privation; privileged whites, in other words.
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Not sympathy so much as pity. Very much nailed the notion of the “idealistic leftist”. Most I have come across, in my experience fail to account for the nature of human instinct, and how behavioural patterns have formed. I believe I’ve seen you refer to this as “hellbaked”?
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