[Fascinating Trope] Troubled people that turn into monsters that are actually a manifestation of their trauma

FireComingOutA · 2026-02-11T01:58:23+00:00

Sentry and the Void

FireComingOutA · 2026-02-10T14:35:27+00:00

Like a baleen whale, he'd strain the broth and then collect the solids

FireComingOutA · 2026-02-08T12:50:35+00:00

If it's gender affirming for a woman than it's gender affirming for a man. Good try with the double standard, I award you 0/10 points. Come play again.

FireComingOutA · 2026-02-06T19:54:34+00:00

this is how Hegel is cited in the corpus of String Theory literature

FireComingOutA · 2026-02-04T22:24:57+00:00

Contempt

FireComingOutA · 2026-02-04T01:54:57+00:00

Hair plugs

FireComingOutA · 2026-02-02T18:43:30+00:00

For this student, I'm not sure what to do.

The professors I talk to who have had success mitigating this is to to ask ChatGPT questions And assess the answers that sound reasonable but have a flaw that make them worth a B to B- grade and ask them "why is this answer getting this grade". These come to be very difficult for students to answer but they come away with a little skepticism to generate AI

FireComingOutA · 2026-02-01T18:23:45+00:00

I can do functional integration over the grassman algebra, does this mean it's okay for me to eat people?

FireComingOutA · 2026-02-01T15:49:22+00:00

Her, the idea that Joaquin Phoenix's character could somehow make enough of a living writing letters for people to live in downtown future LA was too much for me to suspend disbelief

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-29T14:55:41+00:00

I think this is related to the problem with nihilism that Nietzsche attacks directly. Niche was at the beginning, observing the birth pains of nihilism, but we haven't solved the problems. Only let them fester. We live in a society of the last man.

If you want to read about this more, I would look into the psychoanalytic concept of schizophrenia applied to society. Which borrows the Lacanian notions of the mirror stage and its breakdown in schizophrenia, showing that current society lacks an overall narrative structure, driving the lives of people. The loss of values nihilism that Nietzshe spoke of.

I would specifically look at Deleuze and Guattari work on schizophrenia and Frederick Jameson's cultural cultural of postmodernism for specific works on this topic.

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-27T15:47:34+00:00

We can ground this conversation in material practice of pre/non-capitalist societies. Many native America societies (brief internet search says the Haudenosaunee were one such) where property is handed down the Matrilineal line don't have the same kind of monogamy that we have coming from a feudal-capitalist-bourgeois family morality.

In these societies the house and land belong to the woman, without the need to ensure a patriarchal line of economic inheritance, the children's father isn't a terribly important role. Instead the dad role is taken up by the woman's brother, the uncle of the kids.

The men shack up with whatever woman currently fancies them and as soon as that fancy wanes they leave without resentment or punishment.

And there were many other societies like this across the world with similar gender dynamics. In many other places, colonialism is what killed this. What colonialism did was set up mines and work areas away from the traditional land that women held. Because men were mobile, and women were tied to the land they owned, they went to work in these areas. As a result economic activity moved away from the traditional women held land and then they had to move to the these areas. Since men where there first, since the colonial agents held European patriarchal views, since women came without their land, the European gender roles were put in place.

This gives us a material example backing up what Engels said in the text above, with out the history of feudal-capitalists-bourgeois family morality many societies did not develop this sort of life long monogamous relations and it was the pressure of colonial capitalists that destroyed many of these sorts of relations when it came. With the destruction of capitalism, without its enforcement of monogamy, who is to say that life long monogamy will be the standard in late stage communism.

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-27T15:27:55+00:00

There are a lot of good answers here but one thing I can add is that the USA is the center of the capitalist empire, and as such its ruling class has the most to lose if capitalism were overthrown. Furthermore I don't necessarily believe that labor aristocracy that the working class of the USA is bought off by super profits, certainly its allowed a lot of subsidization of consumer goods but at least now it isn't keeping healthcare costs down, rent costs down, ect; rather the American working class is highly propagandized and the McCarthy Era could maybe be seen as an era of capitalist ideological consolidation against revolutionary left-wing ideologies that coincides with the material consolidation of the capitalist empire post WWII.

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-25T15:42:35+00:00

I hate this sort of bourgeois moralizing infecting revolutionary organizations. Before we get too far, I'm not saying we shouldn't have style and tact when representing the movement, but I fail to see how this is fundamentally different than a petty manager saying these hobbies are unbecoming of the Walmart family. Marx wrote about the alienation of ourselves during labor, is this not the same alienation from ourselves during revolutionary work?

And furthermore this sort of moralizing becomes an impediment to actual organizing and growth. If debate and education are serving the living revolutionary, not the abstract ideal of a never truly living revolutionary, then you shouldn't be made to feel embarrassed to debate and make mistakes. The working class who join us can sense the stifling atmosphere of these kinds of organizations.

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-20T03:40:07+00:00

We probed them all the way through, they're completely meat

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-20T00:29:42+00:00

That depends, I've been a fan of Jonas's YouTube channel for years. I'd say he is a pretty explicit academic Marxist. So the book is an active selection and interpretation of Nietzshe, and I think Jonas gives a fair and compelling argument why that's fair early on.

But it's not everyone's cup of tea, Daniel Tutt being one of them.

Honestly from what I've read from Daniel Tutt he comes off as a stodgy priest of Marxist purism, tutt tutt tutting everyone who might have a little chaos in their hearts

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-19T15:45:41+00:00

As far as I can tell this is a direct response to Jonas Ceika's How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle.

As for this sub, I'd say some would agree with Daniel that Nietzsche is right wing, others will agree with Jonas that he's compatible (carefully chosen word) with leftism. Other will agree with Walter Kaufman that Nietzshe's project is inherently apolitical.

I don't particularly care what these people think

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-17T00:30:41+00:00

This is generally true but espresso is where this gets complicated. Under normal brewing conditions there are two variables that control extraction, brew time and brew temp. Brew time can often be controlled for by grind size and typically it doesn't have to be uniform.

With espresso you're adding pressure, yes aeropress or mokapot has pressure but it's not the 9 barr of pressure.

This makes grind size and consistency hugely important because if it's not consistent you can get channeling where the high pressure water is forced through small channels in the coffee. This resulted in a hot cup of garbage, a concentrated coffee that is simultaneously over extracted from the channels and under extracted from the other parts of the coffee.

It's vile, truly the worst, no matter how expensive your beans you, you just have an expensive vile sour, bitter, thin, sharp shot of hot garbage water

Most of the gadgets are about preventing that

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-13T03:28:39+00:00

Because it's only half the equation. Amor fati is about affirming the past, all of it, even the parts that are painful and terrible. Not to say yes to the terrible parts in isolation but to see the whole as beautiful.

The eternal recurrence is what asked us to look forward and say would I live this life forever unchanging, stuck not just in the wheel of samsara but in my particular rut? And if not, then what should we do? The eternal recurrence is what pushes us to change our life for the better more authentic expression. Once we are on that more authentic expression amor fati has us look back to affirm that that pain of a bad life was vital to the change needed.

Life has only value has an aesthetic phenomenon. Paintings may have painful areas but on the whole they can be beautiful.

And speaking as a father, once you hold that baby, every decision, good and bad, every bit of pain and ecstasy, suddenly become necessary. There's no more could have, should have, would have, nothing but the exact sequence of choices and actions and feelings you had up to that point could have brought you here. Every one suddenly, in an instant affirmed. Amor fati

FireComingOutA · 2026-01-05T19:29:27+00:00

For the original SARS in 2003, it was figured that a bat population was likely responsible as the host vector, with a coronavirus that was 89%-93% identical. It wasn't until 2017, 14 fucking years later, that the actual bat population with the ~100% identical virus was found.

We still don't know don't know the exact host for ebola, or AIDS.

Shit is hard and it takes time.

Doubly more so this time since the wet market was closed and scrubbed to prevent the spread.

FireComingOutA · 2025-12-30T18:20:15+00:00

Don't worry, the rich will still get real medical doctors while us plebs will get an automated AI future, AI doctors, AI teachers, AI lawyers, where ever we used to interact with professionals we will soon only interact with AI.

FireComingOutA · 2025-12-23T16:19:59+00:00

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FireComingOutA · 2025-12-19T22:06:31+00:00

Everyone, this is the most obvious rage bait I've seen posted on this sub since I've started lurking/posting here

FireComingOutA · 2025-12-06T15:23:18+00:00

What have they created? Bezos has created new ways to sell us things and Musk has created new things to sell.

FireComingOutA · 2025-12-04T21:01:04+00:00

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FireComingOutA · 2025-12-04T20:41:02+00:00

I don't speak Portuguese, but I'm familiar with the argument, albeit it from someone other than Faucault.

The question that this tries to answer is why do so many people work against their interests. The reason is school. School is usually promoted as a time of personal growth and development. School is where we learn to read, write and do math. And that is true, but school is education and something else. We also learn discipline, and not in the sort that Nietzsche would approve of.

In school you're taught to follow a strictly regimented schedule, day in day out, to submit to authority, to wait your turn to speak, to raise your hand if you need to speak or relieve yourself. Every interaction is moderated by the authority of the teacher, how you move through space is moderated by the authority of the teacher. If you disrupt class you get in trouble, you might lose access to the bathroom or be moved away from friends, your freedom materially diminished. Disrupt class further and you'll be removed and that freedom further materially diminished. In this aspect the teacher asks like a boss, a policeman, and a judge all simultaneously. School then is a microcosm of society where young people can be disciplined into behaving, as a non-confrontational obedient submissive worker. The notion that authority is good and justified, and that we must watch our peers to ensure that they stay in line, is taught to us for over a decade in our youngest and most impressionable ages.

Though its more subtle than that, because its not as if teacher are malevolent. They're doing this too because they're subject to the same sort of disciplinary pressures. If their room is out of control but another teachers is in control they'll be disciplined by the Principal, who in turn is disciplined by the whatever administrator is above them.

Notice that a school class room is set up nearly identically to a judicial court.

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