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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Replying to @chaosprime
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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Replying to @jenphalian @anti_nihilist
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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please note that the first words in the thread are "idk why i have such a fuckin' attitude"
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Replying to @chaosprime @jenphalian
i thought you posted it in an effort to figure it out with the help of input from others!
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have i been (attempting) mansplaining/debating when you just wanted to vent?
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maybe? i think i was less trying to dig up motivations than to solidify the criticism of myself for having this attitude by processing it in public
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