Circle jerk is an insult an ingroup tells about the outgroup, defection is solely an ingroup problem, and witch-hunts ...
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circlejerk makes one ignore valuable input. defection as per prisoner's dilemma can happen between any two parties
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think war (defection) vs peaceful coexistence (cooperation) or even dissolution of borders (merger between the two parties)
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.. and then, one could add, no one wants to be pitied by their friends, or at least, not often...
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Nietzsche would say if you want to affirm life in all it's suffering and terror cultivating a compassionate ethics is disastrous.
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Buddha would say, accept the suffering in all its gory glistening glory and be compassionate anyway.
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However, Buddha is a life-denying doctrine, even if Nietzsche thought it profoundly superior to Christianity.
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Buddhism can be dysfunctional/maladaptive, yes.
Not familiar with Nietzsche's critique of buddhism, have yet to read him.
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I've been experimenting with the eternal return as a concept of abstract horror recently so he is fresh in my mind.
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oh? sleep upcoming but care to link some breadcrumbs for an infovore?
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Yes, i'll share some breadcrumbs. Also I will write something on it myself soon enough. Brb.
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In my view, the theory of eternal return is not easily given to scholarship, or even at all, it is a return of *a* life after all
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But then, it is also the return of all life, so there are scholarly, and universal, aspects to the doctrine.
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Also the readings on Horrorism that you can find on this page had a formative effect on me forum.socialmatter.net/discussion/78/
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Very shortly, my thinking is that Nietzsche is opposing his eternal return (of this life) to Christian eternity of "afterlife"...
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The experience of (being overcome by) horror either leads to reactive denial or rejoicing affirmation ...
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depending on whether the life that experiences it is in ascendance or descent (degeneration)...
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There's more to it, but I can't flesh it out properly on twitter, so I'm writing a longer piece on it.
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