“What games can I play to make 2+2=5 if I want it to.” Easily becomes “How can I train my mind to accept anything anyone says is truth when it is convenient for me.” So now all I have to do is force you into a position where saying what I want is convenient for you.
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Replying to @CorwinRowlette @phyphor and
Lol and you think your personal inflexibility and incapacity for abstraction - your dumbness, to put it bluntly - immunizes you from this You think that's the same thing as moral courage, that the way you are is because you just love truth too much
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Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and
2+2=5 guy pretending fortitude is being willing to say random shit in some nihilistic abortion of an argument calling me dumb is amusing. Peace out broheim, enjoy your fantasy world.
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Replying to @CorwinRowlette @phyphor and
I'm just gonna go full Godwin again here and say that there was a guy who railed against wasteful abstract ivory tower nonsense that had nothing to do with the concerns of normal real people, and he was widely disliked enough after he died no one even has his mustache anymore
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
Seriously, you want to talk about totalitarian responses to art and science, Hitler was a frustrated painter who despised the Surrealists and Cubists and other weird gross "degenerate art" Why can't you just paint pretty landscapes anymore, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
He didn't actually know what "relativity" meant in context but he knew he didn't like the sound of it Some Jewish weirdo like Einstein saying things are *relative* that we all know are *absolute*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
The Nazis pet scientists loved to talk about about "Jew math" and "Jew science" that they contrasted to ordinary Volkisch common sense "A tower of arrogant delusions" based on incomprehensible mathematical constructs divorced from "the world of our eyes and ears"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
Again, to reiterate, that's the Nazis When you talk like that, when you talk about purging the universities of confusing academic nonsense and bringing back the good old fashioned three Rs, you are in fact basically Hitler
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
This is something I think is deeply flawed about 1984 That to get the audience on his side quickly and cheaply Orwell associates totalitarian oppression with the unfamiliar, with "progress"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
The very first line says this world is creepy and alien and bad because they've adopted 24-hour time and have no taboo about the number 13 ("It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen") The pointless shit with the old prole and the metric system
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Tradition is a *positive thing* for authoritarians, something they race to co-opt Familiarity and comfort are their favored sword and shield, they come carrying a Bible and wrapped in the flag Yes, this is true of Uncle Joe Stalin's regime too
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
Orwell dismisses that In his mind the bad guys are the bad guys because they will burn all the books and destroy the language and make everything different and strange and kill everything he loves Because it's about his own shit as much as it is an honest appraisal of Stalin
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and
(It's his hippie punching, he's that kind of guy The Road to Wigan Pier has this whole reaction to the freaks in the movement that reads like Amber Frost ranting about Left Forum today He wants no part of socialism that's run by goddamn vegans, etc)
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