idk why i have such a fuckin' attitude about people desperately trying to experience things they can't explain, it's as good a self-significance maintenance strategy as any and better than lots
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oh, right. i only just worked out that self-significance maintenance strategies aren't optional things people are doing to be annoying, they're hardline requirements you have to do to keep your firmware from murdering you
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why can't all the dots just connect themselves and update instantly. who designed this shit anyway. was i even invited to the architecture review
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So if I'm reading this right, you're mad at the human brain's lust for patterns (i.e. """meaning"""/a "compelling narrative") and how that lust will inevitably corrupt rationality?
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Sounds like a very chaos way to be mad.
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it is, it is, but i'm on a more specifically chaos way of being mad that's about demanding experiences consistent with folklore that prove that the world one feels helpless and irrelevant in is limited in its powers
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you're... mad at people for trying to feel less powerless? in a world so monolithically bureaucratic that they can't help but feel irrelevant (and possibly crushed) by it?
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can't these people, uh, decide to not feel powerless, that's what i do and it works for me
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most people need to palm that card and generate a rationale for why they’re not powerless, such as that they are special because of their contact with secret phenomena which others know not
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it sounds so alien i wonder if i'm misunderstanding something, like people are all 'ugh i can't drink the sea i'm so *powerless*, gonna pretend i can actually do that through some convoluted bullshit' and i'm all 'some shit is forever beyond us, why sweat it'
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no, it's just alien, you have different primary approaches to stabilizing your dopamine
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like shitposting in anti-car threads
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lololol oh, fuck no, i have an enormous and pressing need for this and i'm trying to work out the right delusion/practice mix to address it. the actual origin of having the attitude originally described is as a way of closing it off as an option for myself on aesthetic grounds
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