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 @Locus_of_Ctrl @eigenrobot
You know how they say "sex sells"? They weren't talking about consumer goods.
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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 @Locus_of_Ctrl @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 7 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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Replying to @eigenrobot @simpolism and
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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Replying to @danlistensto @simpolism and
I wonder if its a fixed personality trait tbh one go-to "what would make this more interesting" thing I think about is "what if this were just genetically determined" like, this is probably a viable strategy, wouldnt surprise me if evolutionarily stable fraction were >> 0
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Replying to @eigenrobot @danlistensto and
society mostly makes sense (I think?) as a novel framework where lots of people with bundles of traits, some of which are fixed and some of which are quite flexible, struggle with the fixed ones where they don't fit (or prosper when they fit v well)
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but these days were all in thrall to the superorganisms growing all around us humans havent been free for a long-ass time and were gonna be less so in the future is my guess some nights even sober I can nearly see the nameless guiding egregores stretching out to the stars
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