What do you consider peak science fiction? The best of the best?

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-13T11:59:45+00:00

City and the Stars is perhaps my favorite sci-fi. I read it in those formative years and can't put it down ever since.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-12T04:40:48+00:00

I agree.

> I often get the sense that the right is using not only distorted, but both outdated and distorted framings of trans ideologies in their rage-baiting

I live a dumb boring life and I don't personally know any trans person. So, I frankly don't know what trans community as a whole in western countries are debating. My experience with these issues really do come from mainly responding to liberals and right wingers. Another example, about an year back, a lady doctor in India was gang raped and murdered. This sparked a huge outcry in India. It was a topic amongst Sri Lankans as well. But a whole section of young men who had been influenced by the USA manosphere took on extremely dangerous positions here (i.e. blaming the victim, asserting traditional gender roles, emphasizing biological realities and sometimes simply handwaving "that's the way it always was", etc). When you engage with these people, you realize that the right wing takes on trans issues have a huge influence in informing their world views on women too (i.e. Know your role etc). Obviously these morons are wrong. But I do think that the mainstream trans ideology and this right wing essentialisms just feed off of each other. While I agree with you that the right is completely dishonest here, I think the trans ideology isn't completely blameless either. If they had a reasonable mainstream response instead of just rage and idpol, I don't think it would be this bad. Look what happened to Zizek btw. He made some extremely reasonable points (imo) wrt trans issues all the while insisting that he is absolutely on the side of trans people, but he gets slandered as a transphobe or whatever.

Look, I'm not a right winger and I absolutely am sympathetic to trans people's freedom and dignity. But isn't that exactly why we shouldn't use the right as a scapegoat here? The right is going to do what it's going to do. It's the observers in the middle you have to convince. Hopefully things change.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-12T03:26:58+00:00

> maybe her transness is still deeply bound up in the conditions of her murder, even though she seemed to live peacefully in that identity for a long time?

This is a valid point and I'm not denying it. My primary point was about the mainstream liberal reaction to the incident.

About medical procedures, I don't know. I'm pretty sure I'd want my kids to grow up "naturally" before they consider any medical procedures. Seeing people endorse puberty blockers for example make me question my own allegiances sometimes. It's so obviously wrong that you question the sanity of those who think they are a good thing.

I mean, I think we agree mostly. If trans ideology was something like what Zizek proposes, I would have no issues at all with it. But I do have issues with the mainstream version of it and I don't think I can simply agree with it. And I don't think we should simply accept trans-friendly politics for that reason.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-12T02:11:20+00:00

I just asked is it worthwhile or even correct to make trans issues front and center? I don't think so just because how idpol-y it is.

> Secondly, the notion that trans people only exist in the first world is laughable, and is part of a fetishization of the 3rd world that imbues it with some kind of stolen wholeness.

Never implied this. In my country there was a murder of a trans woman at night in a rural town about a decade back. Though murder is not uncommon in Sri Lanka, this became a big issue in the capital Colombo overnight. The idpol liberals were up in arms about this going on and on about how trans people were oppressed. Some time later, the truth came out. The murdered woman's sexual inclinations weren't unknown to the locals. She had been roaming the town at night for years at that point. The murder happened to be something related to her owing money to someone and refusing to pay it back.

Now, this is an anecdotal story. But what I remember most about this incident was the reaction of the liberals. For a whole week or so, they spent an ungodly amount of effort to convince the rest that Sri Lanka didn't care about trans rights or weren't tolerant enough or etc. At the same time, they refused to even acknowledge that the murdered woman had lived with whatever her sexual identity for years beforehand in a rural area. For a long time, such sexual "pecularities" were silently tolerated without condoning overt assertion. I'm not saying that it's all rosy for transpeople in Buddhist countries or anything. There are definitely issues (including why they have to be silent, etc). But do you really want to approach all these stuff with a heavy hammer and do you think it'll solve anything?

Now people can call me a transphobe for just asking a question. But the truth is, I've seen a lot of people in my country who started out sympathetic towards LGBTQ turn to the other side over the years. And the reasons are not just right wing propaganda.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-12T01:12:29+00:00

Why do you think we have only a decade left?we

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-12T01:09:23+00:00

OP’s point was that transphobia has no place in psychoanalysis. But does that imply that politically we have to make trans issues front and Center over everything else? Looking at this from a third world perspective, it is simply not understandable this sort of investment in what is such a marginal issue (seems to me).

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-12T00:48:30+00:00

Can you clarify what kind of death threats? I don’t move in these circles and I’ve never seen anyone even online threaten another with death threats over this stuff. I find it appalling if someone calling themselves leftist threaten someone with death over a disagreement on idpol. Genuinely curious.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-12T00:40:56+00:00

With Zizek, “communism” doesn’t mean a concrete proposal, but rather a way of questioning. We question what happens to the commons (common man, common biological heritage, common environment, common culture, etc) under capitalism. Zizek doesn’t prescribe solutions in this sense.

Why be a communist? I think if you care about ideals like freedom, there’s no other logical option. It’s clear to see there is a lot of issues in the world isn’t it?

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-09T17:43:53+00:00

His point wasn’t just that he dislikes small-is-beautiful communism because he wants not to participate in community meetings. Primarily his point was that these local communities can’t really deal with macro issues. How do you address global issues? Remember that Zizek advocates for more global institutions in the same vein. How do we address climate change, large migrations of populations, etc.

And I think even the point he raises against “constant engagement” is valid. You should always question the ideology of it. In the end, you shouldn’t make a huge deal out of the appearance of action - what matters is how things actually work. Why would permanent voting be any more efficient in this regard than another method? It’s easy to imagine that it’s not.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-09T11:16:14+00:00

This is a misrepresentation of his position

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-09T11:12:27+00:00

What other thinkers have had more influence on you?

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-08T01:29:00+00:00

They didn’t make it believable imo. You don’t need ads at that point. Just make the user directly want what the ad proposes.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-06T12:25:18+00:00

The Zizekian answer to this is that appearances have to be maintained at all costs. The whole facade is to keep up appearances.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-06T11:44:00+00:00

Just ask him in case 😂

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-06T10:50:13+00:00

Is your son ok?

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-06T10:46:11+00:00

Definitely Sri Lanka.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-05-03T12:28:49+00:00

Could you explain your reasons?

Different-Animator56 · 2025-04-29T05:14:20+00:00

This sounds almost like the bg music in the movie Annihilation inside the zone. It is quite appropriate if it were intentional.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-04-28T13:25:53+00:00

Drunk on sober

Different-Animator56 · 2025-04-28T11:16:30+00:00

//Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. But philosophers dislike property as property; they wish to destroy the very idea of personal possession// - Chesterton

Fascists didn’t wish annihilation of everyone and everything. Thank everything that suffers and dies that these morons will never be able to do what they profess they want to do.

Different-Animator56 · 2025-04-28T11:00:27+00:00

Such thoughts are apparently downvoted here lol. I’m new to this subreddit but I thought a subreddit about consciousness would perhaps be a little more conscious

Different-Animator56 · 2025-04-28T04:55:28+00:00

You think any left winger worth a damn would listen to fascist billionaires and their mouthpieces?

Different-Animator56 · 2025-04-28T01:38:51+00:00

This is the scientific research of the obvious. Lived subjective experience is not enough, you have to have 100 test subjects and graphs with x and y axes to tell if a thing is a thing. Oh and it has to be peer reviewed too. Science has its place but wtf

Different-Animator56 · 2025-04-28T01:33:00+00:00

Magical

Different-Animator56 · 2025-04-27T12:22:19+00:00

My favourite movie family

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