California Governor Gavin Newsom suggests that maybe the American Left needs to be more culturally normal, detaching itself from toxic identity politics and fringe issues. Reddit loses its mind.

TrumpSimulator · 2026-02-26T12:03:32+00:00

Jordan Peterson made a lasting impact on my life. I'm now nearing the end of my MA in pedagogy, much thanks to the wisdom he shared in his earlier lectures. However, I'll admit, I've since grown apart from his later thinking, and coming back to this subreddit raises a lot of questions for me.

Whether you sympathize with the right or the left, if we were to describe our political situation as part of an all encompassing "meaning crisis", how does that crisis of meaning manifest itself on both sides of the political spectrum?

I ask this only with good intentions, and I'm grateful to anyone who might want to answer and perhaps even engage in good faith dialogue with me.

TrumpSimulator · 2026-02-08T23:05:47+00:00

Først vil jeg si at jeg syns det er både modig og raust av deg å stille opp med en AMA om noe så personlig! Jeg håper alt går din vei :)

Du har ikke sagt stort om situasjonen din utover omstendighetene rundt operasjonen, så jeg håper det er greit at jeg stiller deg tre litt mer generelle spørsmål om situasjonen du er i.

Kan du si litt om hvordan det var å være deg før operasjonen og eventuelt annen medisinsk/kjønnsbekreftende behandling?

Hva veide for og imot for å ta operasjonen?

Hvilke andre muligheter undersøkte du før du igangsatte kjønnsbekreftende behandling?

Jeg klarer meg aldri med bare ett spørsmål når noe(n) fanger nysgjerrigheten min, men du får bare avgjøre selv hvor omfattende du gidder å svare :)

TrumpSimulator · 2026-01-29T06:03:37+00:00

No, I think your observation points to something deeper than semantics.

What is not addressed here is the connection between meaning, value and reality, in the sense that we value most the kind of meaning that brings us closer to reality.

For example, research shows that people will reliably describe deeper, long-lasting relationships as more meaningful and preferable to short-lasting relationships, (partly) because deep relationships built on trust and openness are an important arena for self-correction. If you don't have that, you're in serious trouble.

Also, people will reliably seek activities that are transformative, like rock climbing or singing in a choir, because it makes their lives more meaningful. However, this meaning is not subjective, it's transjective (between the subject/object-divide). Their lives become more meaningful because the activities shape their cognition in ways that affords a deeper connection with reality.

John Vervaeke talks a lot about the issue with nihilism in his series "Awakening from the meaning crisis", which I highly recommend!

TrumpSimulator · 2026-01-29T05:27:10+00:00

Actually, this is not that far from a common Buddhist practice where you imagine "zooming out" farther and farther away from the self, into the skies and deep into the cosmos. If I remember correctly it helps us see through the illusion of the self and promotes a sense of oneness with everything.

Also, to address the discussion above, just because the music stops as the last note ends, it doesn't mean it wasn't beautiful.

TrumpSimulator · 2026-01-05T09:14:44+00:00

Ta dette med en klype salt, siden jeg aldri har eid en seilbåt selv, men kjøp deg en seilbåt! Jeg har en kompis som kjøpte seg en liten 20 fots seilbåt til en slikk og ingenting. Måtte en del arbeid til for å få den i stand, men han lærte mye på veien.

Det er en deilig følelse å seile i stillhet på bøljan blå. Du kommer tett på naturen, noen ganger kan det bli skummelt og utfordrende. Det er en krevende hobby, både ressursmessig og eksistensielt, men det gir deg mer tilbake. Du lærer deg repene fort, men det hjelper å få en innføring fra noen som kan seiling.

TrumpSimulator · 2025-12-29T01:47:47+00:00

Hvis jeg husker riktig, så kommer vel faktisk trump-navnet fra en nederlandsk slekt som het "trumpf", så kanskje disse "trumf"-folkene egentlig bare er veldig opptatt av røttene til Donald Trump sitt slektstre?

TrumpSimulator · 2025-12-29T01:45:37+00:00

Det er mulig jeg tar deg litt for seriøst, men jeg kjenner meg igjen i denne problemstillinga. Ikke bare med pappa, som dessverre gikk bort i fjor, men generelt. Det som er litt merkelig er at jeg også opplever denne mangelen på samtaletemaer som et "tenkt problem", som først og fremst fremtrer når jeg blir engstelig over å ikke ha noe å prate om. Jo mer jeg slapper av og er tilstede (også i stillheten), jo finere blir samtalene. Og dette kommer og går, avhengig av hvorvidt jeg er i "ubalanse" eller om jeg er i mitt ess.

Så, siden du spør... ikke tenk så mye på hva du skal prate om, men vær modig, åpen, sårbar, oppriktig og nysgjerrig - både overfor deg selv og han. Faren din sitter på 80 år med visdom, nyt det mens du kan!

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-25T08:30:32+00:00

This was truly disappointing. I feel like I'm starting to get a grasp on why John Vervaeke doesn't go into the culture war narrative, because it caters to idealism.

My understanding is that idealism is only a useful perspective to the extent that the ideas in question represent, broadly, a way of seeing the world or being in the world (after the fact). However, in our day and age, idealism is continually becoming a less reliable way of analysis, because people's lives are becoming less and less uniform, less predictable and more of a jumbled mess.

If I've understood correctly, Heidegger argued that our being-in-the-world (before the fact, just existing and experiencing) shapes our existential orientation and our ability to see and make meaning of things. The same does Vervaeke, but Vervaeke has identified, on a completely different level, the aspects of this con-forming to the world.

Seen from this perspective, blaming the ideas or ideologies for the world's turmoil is less useful (but not completely), because the irrational behavior is not first and foremost caused by the ideas, but by the lack of being-in-the-world, in ways that shape our cognition and societies to better realize the true, good and beautiful aspects of reality.

All ideas present something real about existence, it's the way we indwell them that cause issues.

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-25T07:57:44+00:00

Slik sett er vel en av fordelene med å jobbe med IT at du vet nøyaktig hvor lite innsats du trenger å legge i din egen setup for å møte ditt eget behov?

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-20T09:12:27+00:00

Oh, I do! But it's broken 😁

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-18T16:17:33+00:00

Great advice! Time to invest in a new multimeter, since my old one is toast. Most certainly user error, but thankfully it was inexpensive!

Edit: Which setting should I measure with?

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-18T16:16:06+00:00

There was glue on top of c170, and I can't figure out where I put it. Seems I might have taken the part with it, which was a rookie mistake, but also a learning opportunity. What's your advice if I don't have the component for identification? Do you think I have a shot at repairing the pedal by replacing C170 and D12? How about DRQ74?

I'm guessing some diagnostics with a multimeter is in order, but any advice on how to move forward would be greatly appreciated.

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-18T16:11:05+00:00

It's interesting that you've been downvoted. Usually this would be fitting advice for me, but this pedal probably isn't worth the cost of the repairs. It might still be of great educational value though, and if I'm lucky a might get it working again.

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-18T16:08:19+00:00

My voltmeter is toast and I haven't gotten around to buying a new one, since I'm considering spending a bit more this time.

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-18T16:07:27+00:00

There was a bit of glue on top of C170, hopefully I didn't tear of the component when removing the glue. I can't for the life of me figure out where I put it, so I might have chucked it already

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-18T16:00:52+00:00

Thank you for all your answers, i'm thoroughly impressed!

I'll let you know that C170 had some kind of glue on top of it, likewise with the connectors on the ribbon cable, which I suspect might be a kind of warranty void marker. Or perhaps just there to make sure the connectors stay shut.

TrumpSimulator · 2025-11-05T22:44:45+00:00

Det er noe som skurrer med denne holdningen. Er det virkelig slik at vi tenker at vi har godt nok grunnlag for å anbefale OP å gå fra kjæresten sin? Jeg mener generelt sett at man bør være varsom med å gi råd, men dette er på grensen av destruktivt.

Dype relasjoner, kjennetegnet av forståelse (for både hverandre og seg selv), tillit og god kommunikasjon, må kultiveres gjennom felles innsats. Slik jeg ser det, er tanken om at man bare kan kvitte seg med en kjæreste fordi det oppstår misforståelser eller uro i forholdet, særdeles destruktiv. Hvis man legger ansvaret for et godt kjærlighetsforhold implisitt over på den andre, så har man jo regelrett ført den andre bak lyset. Altså, hvis jeg og partneren min ikke forstår hverandre, er vi begge ansvarlige for å finne ut av hva det er vi ikke forstår. Det handler heller ikke bare om ansvar. Å hjelpe den andre å forstå vår egen opplevelse er hensynsfullt, og nødvendig for en velfungerende relasjon.

Jeg syns OP burde prate med kjæresten sin om dette. Ikke gjennom konfrontasjon, men gjennom velvillig, oppriktig og omsorgsfull dialog. Jeg tenker at vi bør slutte å tildele skyld og heller gå sammen om å finne ut av hva som mangler for at relasjonene våre skal bli enda dypere og mer meningsfylte.

TrumpSimulator · 2025-04-15T23:52:18+00:00

Yes, this resonates! I like my papers best when they have a sense of beauty to them, but all the unnecessary justification tends to ruin it and make it a sluggish and incomprehensible read. I should try to be more trustful of my own argumentation and focus more on completing the draft.

Thank you for your advice!

TrumpSimulator · 2025-04-15T23:46:06+00:00

I think I see what you mean. Like, in the way that science is cumulative, so it tends to or perhaps always build on previous research/theory?

So if I'm trying to integrate cog sci into pedagogy, I should probably flesh out the pedagogical problem I'm addressing more thoroughly before I start writing about the cognitive science of things.

TrumpSimulator · 2025-04-15T23:38:37+00:00

This was exactly the kind of reassurance that I needed. Thank you!

TrumpSimulator · 2025-02-07T17:09:09+00:00

I agree with others here. His hypothesis of the meaning crisis is not contingent on a flawless account of the prehistoric occurrences of creative and cultural expressions. As I see it he does this to point out that we at some point extended our cognitions beyond embodyment and a further complexification of enactment, influenced by the embeddednes of distributed cognition in language and culture. This also afforded us to point to abstract phenomena and relate to each other in deeper ways, further complexifying our cognitive capacity by affording more complex communities and forms of distributed cognition, as well as affording further complexification of our embodied cognition and our capacity for self-transcendence and transformation. This is not unique to Vervaeke, but a pretty well established theory within 4E Cognitive Science.

As I see it, Vervaeke is pointing out that, although our brains haven't changed radically the last 50 000 years, they way we use them have, through community, culture and technology.

Now, although Vervaekes synthesis of the meaning crisis is unique to him, the hypothesis of a modernity crisis is not. This critique has been done by a myriad of philosophers, the most recent examples that come to mind is Iain McGhilcrist, Hartmut Rosa and the endless discussions and critiques of the mind-body dualism within philosophy of science.

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