If Freud were alive today (hate him or not, he's a useful character in the story I'm about to tell), he would postulate a "signaling drive" (irresistible urge to signal to ingroup), which he would consider to be closely related to "death drive."
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Replying to @LoCtrl @eigenrobot
Hm? I feel Freud would see claims like "why can't we hate men?" as a manifestation of ego-id conflict regarding the Electra complex: to deny they love men is to refuse to identify as a competitor for their fathers' affection, conflicting with their id's desire to possess him.
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Replying to @simpolism @eigenrobot
I don't see how the two interpretations are incompatible though.
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Replying to @LoCtrl @eigenrobot
They aren't; a refusal to identify as a competitor (and instead to identify with the mother/"women") is equivalent to a "signaling drive", but it also suggests a psychosexual causal mechanism in addition to describing the behavior. I figure Freud wouldn't invent a new word.
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Replying to @simpolism @eigenrobot
Freud loved inventing drives though (e.g. his death drive is pure invention).
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One thing I notice is that all ideologies seem to have some kind of psychosexual underpinning. marxism -- promise of free love after dissolution of families into communes feminism -- leveling of sexual competition monarchism -- tradwives? libertinism?
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Replying to @LoCtrl @eigenrobot
You know how they say "sex sells"? They weren't talking about consumer goods.
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Replying to @simpolism @eigenrobot
Less pithily: Eric Hoffman's "The True Believer" claims that "the frustrated" are the ones who ultimately take up radical ideologies. What sort of "frustration" might he have meant?
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Replying to @simpolism @eigenrobot
the frustration of coastal whites in america's cities seems to be primarily sexual
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Replying to @LoCtrl @eigenrobot
Well, maybe. But also maybe not (thanks
@sonyaellenmann for the link).https://delicioustacos.com/2012/05/22/theyre-gonna-hang-my-cock-from-the-rafters/ …2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
every time I read his stuff its like man youre stuck at 19 but youre 40 and it sure seems like youre not gonna change and pal the fault lies not in your stars
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I'm not gonna lie reading that was the first time in months I've felt the sensation of like, I dunno if there's a word for it but it's a combination of disgust and pity with a thin coating of angry-cause-he-gives-men-a-bad-name on top
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot and
men are pigs? mostly not. just that fucking guy.
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