YoungAchamian
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YoungAchamian
10mo ago
I would also like a breakdown. I followed him back in covid before I started to divest myself from the whole youtube ecosystem.
YoungAchamian
10mo ago
I like this theory the most. It definitely maps to my observations of people exploiting niches to get what they need sexually.
YoungAchamian
10mo ago
Tiberius Gracchus was the one they killed/tried to prosecute, for disturbing their hold on the levers of powers. I think he most maps to Trump.
YoungAchamian
10mo ago
It's extremely reductive, but it's basically Rousseau? Has he been cast out of the Liberal canon?
My understanding is that he was never in Liberal canon. He had a huge distrust of private property, individual choice, and markets. All things that are actual cornerstones of Liberalism.
YoungAchamian
10mo ago
I'm interested in whether, as a self-defined progressive, you feel that progressiveness as whole is define by holding the virtue, whose shadows are kindness, charity, generousness etc.?
I don't want to force you into a no-true-scotsman situation or an inevitable dogpile so I apologize in advance if that happens. Anyways, quite a few progressives I know in my circle of friends and family definitely express their virtues as kindness and/or empathy. But the longer one talks to them the more it really appears their kindness or empathy is very narrowly directed. They clearly have outgroups they are not kind or empathetic to. They don't consider the second order effects of their "kind" policies and who it hurts or sometimes even care that it does hurt people. I'm not saying this is you or even your bunch but have you encountered this, how do you differentiate yourself?
Irish mythology doesn't really have a Zeus figure as there are a handful of tribes of gods who are not unified like the greek, roman, or norse pantheons. But the more civilizationally-aligned Irish Gods are the Tuatha De Dannan. The Dagda is the Chief of the TDD. He's sort of a cross between Odin and Freyr.
YoungAchamian
10mo ago
Google says its Mad Max, one of Immortan Joe's Wives. I doubt that's true. While probably not what you were going for, I always interpreted it as The Dagda.
YoungAchamian
11mo ago
Is there a good source to see what executive order's trump has signed and a general summary of them?
YoungAchamian
11mo ago
The community notes on his posts are hilarious. The take I saw recently is the Elon wants to be "King of the Nerd", and with his eggshell-thin ego he really can't take being called out by people nerdier or smarter than him.
YoungAchamian
11mo ago
Do you have a good book recommendation on understanding Jungian Archetypes?
Be careful, I think the overlap between people who read MBotF and Motteposters/Rationalists is pretty high. I greatly enjoyed the series, definitely in my top 5. Definitely not some sexless dork. MBotF itself isn't particularly progressive, though the most recent Witness books had some cringe immigrant/refugee moments. I think this is far more explainable by influencers being highly fake; people who seek out fame are not normal. Clout chasers like the above are seeking to exploit their niche and in this case their only skill is being able to read/enjoy dense literature.
I think this maps cleany to the progressive impulse to want to be special, the pronouns, the celebration of different lived experiences. It all tracks that some nerd desiring to me special/famous, uses their love of deep fantasy to be different and then, because they are immersed in the the zoomer zeitgeist, then tries to become some niche influencer.
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