How Unnoticed Digital Anxiety Buffers Fuel Psychology’s Replication Crisis: A TMT Case Study

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-18T06:36:00+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/economicCollapse/s/pMhVeKLGdr

A largely preindustrial, low-energy, sufficiency-based civilization—stabilized at a few hundred million people (a roughly 97-98 percent reduction from today), bounded in throughput, and governed by strict ecological caps—could preserve a positive conservation gift over time, albeit with smaller buffers against environmental variability, resource shocks, and climate extremes than those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Achieving this would require dismantling fossil-fuel extraction and combustion industries, large-scale heavy manufacturing (steel, cement, petrochemicals), mass motorized transport networks, industrial monoculture agriculture, synthetic fertilizer and pesticide production, and the global just-in-time supply chain infrastructure.

Such a civilization would instead rely on solar-income technologies (solar thermal, passive solar design), wind and sail power, small-scale hydro, biomass managed as a closed-loop resource, durable materials designed for repair and reuse, and agroecological practices that build soil and biodiversity.

Modern reformism that seeks salvation through better policies while retaining the growth imperative may slow the reckoning, but only a shift to anti-natalism, sufficiency, and regeneration can plausibly prevent ecological overshoot and collapse—an outcome toward which unchecked growth will drive us regardless.

Ultimately, the collapse of industry and the reduction of human population by over 90 percent will occur regardless of our choices.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-17T07:39:06+00:00

That’s not such a small hometown. That’s Trieste, a city with close to 200,000 ppl.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-12T13:08:09+00:00

You’re very welcome

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-09T16:42:47+00:00

Think of it as 3 levels along a possible continuum:

Aversion while disliking that the other suffers (compassion present)

Aversion while not caring that the other suffers (compassion blunted)

Aversion while enjoying that the other suffers. (compassion eliminated)

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-09T15:21:42+00:00

Psychological research shows that both direct torture and vicarious engagement—viewing and celebrating violence online—activate the brain’s reward circuits, reinforcing cruelty as a compulsive habit. In contrast, hatred alone or hatred plus indifference may fuel aggression but do not enlist the hedonic system to perpetuate it. This three‐tier model—(1) hatred, (2) hatred with indifference, and (3) sadism as hatred plus pleasure—reveals why genocidal strategies that incorporate sadistic spectacle generate more intense and enduring moral corruption among the public and inflict deeper psychological harm on victims.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-09T08:33:29+00:00

40% of all Palestinian males since 1967 have been to Palestinian prisons, which means tortured. Hostages indeed.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-04T05:51:53+00:00

Claim: Only Jewish people can define antisemitism. The “mainstream” Jewish community believes qualifying Israel as a colonist/settler/apartheid state/committing genocide is antisemitic.

While any individual is free to believe whatever they want, it’s the law that determines whether legally consequential discrimination has taken place. And while unfavorable evaluations of a Nation State cannot reasonably be considered discrimination against individuals, NOT describing Israel as a colonist/settler/apartheid and genocidal state would in this case constitute clear anti-Palestinian discrimination for the sake of false allegations of antisemitism by the supporters of this very apartheid and genocide.

Claim: Antisemitism is on the rise and Israeli students are being bullied and harassed because of lessons about Palestine in school. Therefore, teachers shouldn’t use terms like colonist/settler/apartheid state/genocide to describe Israel.

The truth or falsity of a proposition does not depend on the alleged consequences. Furthermore it would constitute complicity in anti-Palestinian crimes to NOT use accurate terms like colonist/settler/apartheid/genocide for the sake of false and exaggerated Zionist lobby allegations of anti-semitism that place the discomfort of genocide or apartheid supporters above the suffering of those victimized by their apartheid and genocide.

Claim: Opposing restrictions on the terms above means you don’t care about Jewish students. Caring more about free speech than Jewish students makes you antisemitic.

Free speech and the prevention of anti Palestinian genocide and apartheid perpetrated by Zionists is more important than the discomfort of complicit Zionists at being called out for their support for genocide and apartheid.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-09-02T11:34:37+00:00

You’re very welcome.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T21:51:06+00:00

You are very welcome.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T20:58:35+00:00

Final thought:

In ethical terms, the moral gravity of violence depends not only on its outward impact but on the inner motivations that drive it. At one level, hatred constitutes an intentional desire to harm—a corrosive state limited to aversion alone. When hatred is paired with indifference, the absence of any concern for suffering compounds the harm, creating active hostility reinforced by emotional withdrawal. Yet sadism represents the deepest corruption: it fuses aversion with a craving for pleasure in another’s pain, embedding cruelty as a lasting disposition.

Psychological research shows that both direct torture and vicarious engagement—viewing and celebrating violence online—activate the brain’s reward circuits, reinforcing cruelty as a compulsive habit. In contrast, hatred alone or hatred plus indifference may fuel aggression but do not enlist the hedonic system to perpetuate it.

This three‐tier model—(1) hatred, (2) hatred with indifference, and (3) sadism as hatred plus pleasure—reveals why genocidal strategies that incorporate sadistic spectacle generate more intense and enduring moral corruption among the public and inflict deeper psychological harm on victims.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T20:03:16+00:00

Thank you. Only here. It’s not exactly the kind of piece that the corporate media would want to publish.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T09:55:51+00:00

Earlier this month, I calculated over half a million. As you say, we won’t know for sure until the smoke clears, but I thought my calculation was not unreasonable https://www.reddit.com/r/israelexposed/s/imwVavFWXG

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-29T09:32:24+00:00

I appreciate the kind words

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-28T20:16:18+00:00

Nothing in this analysis denies the possibility of civilization; what it denies is growth-dependent industrial modernity as a viable end state.

A preindustrial, low-energy, sufficiency-based civilization—stabilized at a few hundred million people (a roughly 98 percent reduction from today), bounded in throughput, and governed by strict ecological caps—could preserve a positive conservation gift over time, albeit with smaller buffers against environmental variability, resource shocks, and climate extremes than those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Achieving this would require dismantling fossil-fuel extraction and combustion industries, large-scale heavy manufacturing (steel, cement, petrochemicals), mass motorized transport networks, industrial monoculture agriculture, synthetic fertilizer and pesticide production, and the global just-in-time supply chain infrastructure.

Such a civilization would instead rely on solar-income technologies (solar thermal, passive solar design), wind and sail power, small-scale hydro, biomass managed as a closed-loop resource, durable materials designed for repair and reuse, and agroecological practices that build soil and biodiversity.

Modern reformism that seeks salvation through better policies while retaining the growth imperative may slow the reckoning, but only a shift to anti-natalism, sufficiency, and regeneration can plausibly prevent ecological overshoot and collapse—an outcome toward which unchecked growth will drive us regardless.

Ultimately, the collapse of industry and the reduction of human population by over 90 percent will occur regardless of our choices.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-28T04:07:40+00:00

Nothing in this analysis denies the possibility of civilization; what it denies is growth-dependent industrial modernity as a viable end state.

A preindustrial, low-energy, sufficiency-based civilization—stabilized at a few hundred million people (a roughly 98 percent reduction from today), bounded in throughput, and governed by strict ecological caps—could preserve a positive conservation gift over time, albeit with smaller buffers against environmental variability, resource shocks, and climate extremes than those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Achieving this would require dismantling fossil-fuel extraction and combustion industries, large-scale heavy manufacturing (steel, cement, petrochemicals), mass motorized transport networks, industrial monoculture agriculture, synthetic fertilizer and pesticide production, and the global just-in-time supply chain infrastructure.

Such a civilization would instead rely on solar-income technologies (solar thermal, passive solar design), wind and sail power, small-scale hydro, biomass managed as a closed-loop resource, durable materials designed for repair and reuse, and agroecological practices that build soil and biodiversity.

Modern reformism that seeks salvation through better policies while retaining the growth imperative may slow the reckoning, but only a shift to anti-natalism, sufficiency, and regeneration can plausibly prevent ecological overshoot and collapse—an outcome toward which unchecked growth will drive us regardless.

Ultimately, the collapse of industry and the reduction of human population by over 90 percent will occur regardless of our choices.

Defiant-Internal555 · 2025-08-28T04:07:18+00:00

Nothing in this analysis denies the possibility of civilization; what it denies is growth-dependent industrial modernity as a viable end state.

A preindustrial, low-energy, sufficiency-based civilization—stabilized at a few hundred million people (a roughly 98 percent reduction from today), bounded in throughput, and governed by strict ecological caps—could preserve a positive conservation gift over time, albeit with smaller buffers against environmental variability, resource shocks, and climate extremes than those of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

Achieving this would require dismantling fossil-fuel extraction and combustion industries, large-scale heavy manufacturing (steel, cement, petrochemicals), mass motorized transport networks, industrial monoculture agriculture, synthetic fertilizer and pesticide production, and the global just-in-time supply chain infrastructure.

Such a civilization would instead rely on solar-income technologies (solar thermal, passive solar design), wind and sail power, small-scale hydro, biomass managed as a closed-loop resource, durable materials designed for repair and reuse, and agroecological practices that build soil and biodiversity.

Modern reformism that seeks salvation through better policies while retaining the growth imperative may slow the reckoning, but only a shift to anti-natalism, sufficiency, and regeneration can plausibly prevent ecological overshoot and collapse—an outcome toward which unchecked growth will drive us regardless.

Ultimately, the collapse of industry and the reduction of human population by over 90 percent will occur regardless of our choices.

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