my formulation here is off by a critical bit of nuance, incidentally. it isn't "your social status is too low", it's "your social importance is too low". the tiny gap between these things is enormous and the cause of huge amounts of failurehttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1142084737558880256 …
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specifically, every view of social significance as a zero-sum competition is made of failure and aggressively working to spawn more failure, metastatically failogenic
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this whole thing is fascinating because it forces me to conclude i'm not actually human
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
You're just deep in the "giving no fucks" zone.
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Replying to @cigfran_llwyd @chaosprime
well, yeah, but the assertion is that there are 'deep brain structures' that make it impossible to give no fucks, which seems...very odd, as a claim.
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
I have to assume that they can be burned out by trauma, drugs, or cultic praxis.
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Replying to @cigfran_llwyd @chaosprime
hrm. I don't think I've had enough of *any* of those three things, but possibly!
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
Well, by all means indulge in more of at least two of your choice.
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Replying to @cigfran_llwyd @chaosprime
really if your cultic praxis doesn't involve drugs what are you even playing at, anyhow
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for some people, the cops inside their head are satisfied by a good story about how they're awesome because the cops inside their head went away when they stopped believing in them
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