Author: Mr Nobody
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What is racism?
It is not the assignment of negative characteristics by race. It’s the reduction of identity to a single factor, race. It’s saying that you are your race, leaving no room for the individual. That’s racism. It’s ideological. It’s a way of seeing all value, interpreting all action, making all value judgments, as if race were…
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Politics and power
Why argue that all motivations an action are power? So you can apply power. People seek a moral justification for the application of force in service of the causes they desire to advance. They want moral authority to act. Civilizations differ mostly in what they take for granted. That’s where the real differences lie. In…
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Society as a sexual dialogue
Society is a kind of dialogue between men and women. Women set the expectations and establish conditions for their acceptance and presence, and men enforce them. Men are the cannon women fire at the world to blast away threats, a force to reshape conditions and create ordered spaces (nests) in a way that they find…
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The difference between teasing and malicious intent.
Teasing is certainly something I’ve dealt with my my life. I was teased mercilessly in elementary and middle school, as well as kicked around physically quite a bit. So if anyone is likely to see teasing as something negative, it’s me. But it never bothered me very much, except in the way a persistent fly…
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Criticism is easier than creation
There are always going to be those who seek to hold others hostage and hold art hostage and hold speech hostage with their own complaints. It’s much easier to criticize a work of creativity than it is to produce one. In particular, the complaint that something is inadequate or imperfect, and therefore is corrupt and…
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Why are humans so powerful?
What is a durable foundation for a life? What will last and create power, regardless of circumstances or technology? What is the fundamental mode of being that can make humans succeed and grow regardless of their situation? It cannot be something we invent, it must be something we already possess or possess access to, because…
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Discrimination
The idea of discrimination is a tough one to crack. People use the word pejoratively, and use it specifically as a justification for the enactment of legal powers and penalties against organizations and individuals. In a purely common sense manner, though, there is no such thing as outlawing discrimination. All thought, all value assignment, all…
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Politeness
Politeness is the fundamental making-room-ness for the existence, the thoughts, feelings, actions, and idiosyncrasies, of others. Can you give up too much territory? Yes. Sometimes you need to defend your space and resist the encroachment of others. But politeness is what prevents everything from becoming a fight. It’s a ritual that allows space within proximity,…
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Peterson vs Weinstein
What language best represents human experience? Scientific and materialistic language, the language of quantity? Or is it narrative and personification that beat capture our reality? https://youtu.be/O55mvoZbz4Y The later part of this episode is one of the greatest summaries of the culture War problem and how to conceptualize it I’ve ever heard. It’s solid gold and…
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A comment in Do Progressives Care About Jews?
https://youtu.be/F_tk9z3OpcQ Can we coin the term Jewish Fragility? It sounds like his main complaint is simply that identity politics is inconsistent. And his second complaint is that one of the areas it isinconsistent is regarding Jews, his own personal domain where he’s invested. If it’s going to exist, then, it should at least include Jews,…
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