im succumbing to peer pressure from @natural_hazard to not only read this blogpost, but also to poast thoughts
https://samzdat.com/2018/03/07/everything-is-going-according-to-plan/ …
tldr: the quest to ground our ideals will fail as long as we idolize truth
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one of the more interesting ideas is nihilists as taking our ideals too seriously because if you do that, you find out that nothing is actually based in anything oh god oh no but people who say they believe in [whatever] dont actually follow through (because it wont end well)
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but you cant value nothing, that ruins the game, and you end up with corporate blandness taking over your whole life im not sure how to thread this needle, except by trying very hard to not think about it lovecraft is right, things Man Is Not Meant To Know exist and this is it
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narcissism as the recognition that only appearance matters and hating it all of the things we hold most dear are judged by how they look, not by if they actually are good so we try to look good instead of be good, and so [TLPs blog]
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the problem is not that we lie (for we must) its that we suck at it we use vague abstractions that barely mean anything humanism in particular is bad, because humanists completely ignore any counterarguments and barely even check for causation "wonder and stardust" is nonsense
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in order to have an ideal world, we must make ideal humans this is a problem if you (like everyone else) are not an ideal human hence the utopia, the no-place, can never be
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