ideologies being bad ideas doesn't at all mean that it isn't useful to have ideologists around. people pulling in all kinds of direction is good. very few can handle thinking of themselves as pulling for a goal that would suck to achieve but it's helpful to pull for, though
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i'm sure that if i reread this enough times eventually i'll find the liehttps://twitter.com/Theotropho/status/1167067294440271875 …
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this is why in a close possible word i would have been some kind of mass shooter fortunately i'm high iq enough to meditate and channel unhealthy degrees of rebellion into other things. like using the word retard on twitter (so brave)
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clever of you to figure out that hyperreality means that lexical violence is more or less as satisfying as any other kind i guess it being regarded as more or less as evil as any other kind was a hint
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At first, I'm like, WTF is Chaos on about...
You're talking about ideologues. Being committed to a cause is difficult in the modern world, were shallowness reigns. It takes a special kind of moxie to push past the pull of the status quo but sometimes it's very necessary. -
The problem is the suicide bomber. He's willing to self harm for the "cause", a vague notion. Kierkegaard spoke of the "Knight of Faith", like Abraham who defied reason, attempted murder, to obey God. The q is, what causes are just? What are we willing to sacrifice for our truth.
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curly spacetime.
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suicide bombers are a necessary component of modern social change
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