conoclast
3mo ago
I see them that way -- theme parks are mostly ignorable entertainment, while sex carries narratives of shaming and dick-measuring. It's, in addition, monetizing loneliness. It would be one thing if 'sex work' was paying for disgusting fetishes or long hours or artificially prettying yourself up or sth like that, but it isn't, and I consider it contributes to below-replacement birthrates.
conoclast
11mo ago
There is something comical to me about this having 0 points on this site, to me it's a well intentioned post and title and yet it will never work (perhaps that is simply my view however). I would posit that this is even more general where leftism used to be tightly linked with class and freedom of speech and now is the thing that has been most "poisoned" over the past decade, and previous people who held that label have the poisoned choice of abandoning it and making it seem less sane or trying to market a new term. There is also a clash between purist-types who would advocate freedom of speech despite a large coalition who had no respect for it for years and (I don't know) realistic/pragmatic types who I would not even say it would be hypocritical to want revenge/retaliation instead.
Whenever there is a drift of terminology from a core useful idea (like what has happened to "freedom of speech") I often meditate on whether others believed the original idea at all. It feels a bit bleak to think of it that way, though.
conoclast
11mo ago
Not exactly right-wing but agree on what the video is communicating, and on "wanting to become violent is the right and natural reaction" jives with me, though I probably do not feel it as viscerally as you mention. I guess I could see myself 'relaxing' to this video in the background, in the "holy shit yes there's someone who agrees that this is clearly insane" viewpoint.
Many people's lives are already predetermined in a profoundly negative light by the school system, legal system, culture, or poor parenting -- there're plenty of natural 'idiot humans' there. I'd take AI any day over what we currently have.
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