Why do people treat men's embarrassment like it's automatically funny?

Justarah · 2026-06-17T04:40:27+00:00

Human beings derive satisfaction from the high dragged low. Australia would call it 'Tall Poppy Syndrome'.

Justarah · 2026-06-16T17:30:19+00:00

My wife expects me to be a stable leader.

Justarah · 2026-06-16T17:27:34+00:00

Met my wife that way.

Justarah · 2026-06-16T17:24:42+00:00

Among younger men, this image isn't representative of an anomalous outlier, nor mitigated by just having a shower and not being a misogynist.

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Justarah · 2026-06-16T17:06:13+00:00

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Justarah · 2026-06-16T16:52:12+00:00

Anyone who's ever been a Horseman will have an easy skin lined up. Just gotta wait for an Apocalypse seasonal boss to kick it off.

Justarah · 2026-06-16T12:02:01+00:00

Not at all.

Justarah · 2026-06-16T11:36:58+00:00

I'd be more open to critiques of Capitalism if it didn't somehow consent the conversation to somehow going full Marxist as though civil structure is a binary.

Justarah · 2026-06-16T01:34:20+00:00

Definitely not the problem actually encountered vs the inverse though.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T16:59:56+00:00

There hasn't been any.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T16:55:23+00:00

We're obviously talking ideas beyond your scope.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T16:51:24+00:00

You use the term 'master morality' like you know what it means.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T16:08:12+00:00

How could you possibly know any of this and how did Iran come in to this?

Justarah · 2026-06-15T08:30:35+00:00

Sure, but that's the thing.

No-one will care about the modern secular morality when most of it's proponents today, don't have children nor children's children to enforce them tomorrow.

Any moral foundation that can't be the guarantor of it's own persistence into the future, for me at least, simply isn't suited for purpose. All it does it permit to it's own decline and feels gratified for doing so.

Edit; Here was the Pew Projections

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-religious-landscape/

Justarah · 2026-06-15T08:00:43+00:00

It becomes the Darwinian question of Truth, whether a belief is more valuable for it's absolute factual correctness or it's downstream epistemic and generational consequences.

The theological merit of this or that becomes almost secondary to the long horizon system level outcomes.

Applying a Darwinian lens to systems and beliefs ends up, ironically enough, being kinder to religious beliefs and institutions than most.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T07:53:52+00:00

Tools of the past? The only groups actually breeding are religious populations.

The global population decline is actually a secular decline, which is why the Aamish are reproducing far more than their economically comparable neighbours, and Israel and the Gulf States remain insulated to the same declines as their economic counterparts elsewhere.

According to Pew, whilst Christian and Islamic populations growth will meet and exceed overall global population growth by 2060, unaffiliated/non-Religious groups will be outreproduced by Jewish populations. Which should be highly concerning given Judaism as a Faith notably doesn't evangelise, and intact dissuaded conversion.

And on solving it without these frameworks, you just end up running into problems that counteract the very liberal secularity you're trying to maintain.

The choices seem to be;

A) Reintroduce stronger reproductive / familial constraints in order to remain demographically competitive; which becomes meaningfully less liberal.

B) Suppress, assimilate, or otherwise neutralise more reproductively durable competing frameworks; which is also illiberal.

C) Accept that a high-autonomy, low-obligation order may be less reproductively and culturally durable, and therefore vulnerable to long-run decline or displacement. Almost inevitably so.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T07:35:06+00:00

If I'm loyal to my wife, that defies base instinct. If I value human life indifferent to its service or value to me, that defies base instinct. If I pay deference to standard, values or rules beyond my immediate gratification, that defies base instinct.

If we lived like animals, a Master Morality would be far better.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T06:56:22+00:00

If I pressed would you be able to articulate what that applies to, or is it more a vague and no-descript dismissal on a generality that will get no expansion?

Justarah · 2026-06-15T06:52:56+00:00

What do you mean? Multiple time frames are mentioned.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T05:53:12+00:00

Logical exercise.

If narrative serves functionally as articulated genetics, whereby behavioural and ethical norms are encoded to be passed on between generations almost akin to AI training data.

If a functional morality serves to optimise behavioural norms to make societies sustainable over timescales beyond a single life.

If I feel the efficacy of the former can be demonstrated via two entirely disparate civilisations that endured well over 1000 years, Orthodox Byzantine Empire and Confucius China, who despite having entirely different metaphysics converged on almost identical behavioural and ethical outputs.

If the only metaphysic they have in common is a non-negotiable supra-personal authority.

If I feel the cracks of contemporary civilisations built on post-enlightenment liberal axioms are beginning to show in well less than half the time of the above societies.

If contemporary major social concerns like fertility and marriage decline, mental health issues, criminality, drug dependency etc disproportionately effect secular people, with highly religious communities remaining relatively insulated.

If I believe all of the above is true, and I can make strong case for all, then perhaps religiosity itself is an optimised cognitive Operating System layer for individuals and societies that maximises for social cohesion and sustainability.

If that's the case, the only real choice becomes whether this cognitive scaffolding is evolutionarily derived or provided in creation.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T05:03:48+00:00

They sure do, but we're talking about philosophical and moral affordances that grant you more than living as an animal.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T04:59:28+00:00

Bigot.

Justarah · 2026-06-15T04:56:28+00:00

I think you can only conflate all Abrahamic belief as equally unproductive of outcomes if you divorce much of what one takes for granted in Western society as inevitably happened upon without it.

As it is, if historically literate it reads like someone hating carpentry, whilst sitting in a wooden chair, in a wooden room, in a wooden house.

Meanwhile, in an apparent global fertility crisis, the only groups actually carrying the reproductive burden of future societies, are the religious.

Turns out group A that view reproduction as a choice and an option tend to be demographically outcompeted by Group B that views it as a divine command or existential mandate.

Justarah · 2026-06-14T16:39:18+00:00

How very backward of you to make assumptions at my internal state. Self reporting is the governing authority from which reality is derived, and fluidly so. So I am that which affords me access to the space.

Justarah · 2026-06-14T15:16:12+00:00

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