If privilege is invisible how can anyone say with scientific certainty they dont have it? What means other than politico-historical narratives do we have to determine who is and isnt? How can such narratives establish objective truths? No one has ever explained this to me
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How can you impose anachronistic racial categories on people of previous ages to establish a continuity of oppression? Past eras are far away countries, their continuity with ourselves exists only within the confines of historical narratives, which create subjective links.
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If one cant fairly judge other cultures using western concepts, how can one judge past eras as complicit in a history of oppression without likewise doing them the same disservice? If youre a cultural relativist, how can you not be a historical relativist as well?
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This is why the media is so central to our current issues. There must be a single institutionalized story, any voluntary mitigation of narratives has collapsed, social media companies have learned this the hard way. In the last resort only force can keep it together anymore
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If you step back and look, our political acrimony seems to completely revolve around not actionable objective problems, but questions of who gets to speak about what when. The source of narrative authority is the true overarching problem of our era
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Social media platforms started with an idea to give a voice to everyone, but no harmony between the voices developed, no self-organization. No sense of wholeness or totality exists, which is needed in all complex systems, including nature, to determine an order between the parts
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Without any higher ideal, which it is the point of human culture to strive towards, than serving as data mines and e-consumers, social media platforms have increasingly been driven to embody and instantiate themselves as the missing whole in order to mitigate between the voices.
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Now the Facebookian Community becomes its own end, where every user exists not to voice his own reality, but to further the eruption of a digital leviathan onto the scene. The Social Media Community itself will become the lacking order, via algorithmic manipulation of the voices
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an excellent thread my man. you know awhile ago i was going to write an article about the paradoxical nature of current race-politics and ID-POL in the secular/atheistic modern left. the consequences of past oppression is legit as a metaphysical claim! i fear writing it thou <_<
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