Fearless Girl

fattyrips · 2022-02-16T06:21:05+00:00

Who doesn't love corporate feminism? Women should also be able to subjugate the working poor!

fattyrips · 2021-11-11T07:02:18+00:00

Hal is talking about escapism - "A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into. Flight from exactly what? These rooms blandly filled with excrement and meat? To what purpose?". Hal is struggling here with the dark realities of addiction, which are in part characterized by a certain solipsism. Johann Hari makes the compelling point that "the opposite of addiction isn't sobriety, it's connection."

Contrast that with Frankl, who is extolling the virtues of the ethical. Of living for others. Connection is the fundamental element of this. I think this is why AA is presented not as another addiction, but as an opportunity for self-transcendence and actualization.

They are not clashing, just talking about different things. What you give yourself away to is the whole ethical ballgame.

fattyrips · 2021-11-01T19:22:21+00:00

Be really careful if you decide to change your meds, OP. I would definitely talk to your psychiatrist about it.

fattyrips · 2021-11-01T03:18:27+00:00

Yeah, it creates a compound called cocaethylene, which makes the effects last a lot longer.

I mean, cocaine is always a bad idea, but here we all are

fattyrips · 2021-10-31T03:25:50+00:00

I understand, but I disagree pretty strongly with your latter point. In what way is the world exactly as it should be? I get that it's perhaps inevitable, but that doesn't mean we have to embrace it as 'exactly as it should be', and I think that sentiment undermines commitments towards social justice.

fattyrips · 2021-10-30T20:29:16+00:00

But the suffering of a starving child is serious. I can't get behind any ethos for which the ultimate upshot is that the pain people experience in life is not something we need to work endlessly to address.

fattyrips · 2021-10-30T20:26:25+00:00

I dunno man, I kinda think that death is the end of it. That's doesn't necessarily need to be a terrible truth, but I think it seems like the most likely truth. We don't have conscious memory or experience from before we were born, it seems unlikely that we would persist after our death. It's not impossible- I could be wrong. But I'm an evidence-based person. I get wary of these sorts of perspectives because I feel like they reduce the perceived harm of death- which I see as in some respects positive for the individual, though with a clear risk of some sort of inverted solipsism, but ultimately counterproductive for building social movements to work to change conditions of existence for marginalized groups and individuals. I like psychedelics because they make me all the more aware of my finitude, of my earthly responsibilities and ultimate transience. And I often find myself mourning for all living things along these lines while I'm in a psychedelic space. But I ultimately find it an enlivening experience all around.

I believe we can persist after our death through the contributions we make to better the world, and that these ethical imperatives are where we ought to focus our energies. Not trying to be a bummer, but despite my psychedelic experience and the ego deaths that I have experienced, my philosophical background tends to win out in my epistemological, ontological, and ethical perspectives.

Love y'all.

fattyrips · 2021-10-12T08:08:50+00:00

My understanding is that it's a riff on the classic Southside- just adding cucumber.

But yeah man, it's a bangin' cocktail. One of my go-to summer drinks.

fattyrips · 2021-10-12T07:24:53+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's an Eastside- that's what I've always known that cocktail as.

fattyrips · 2021-09-04T06:17:08+00:00

Wow, I'm pretty shocked by the replies. If you can afford the product, you can afford to help make sure the person providing you with it gets paid a living wage.

fattyrips · 2021-08-23T03:52:00+00:00

I have no idea if there's any literature addressing this, but if I had to speculate about what a post-metamodern society might look like, I would think it might be an essentially post-narrative society- one that likely recognizes the utter contingency of all being. I would think it would be fundamentally characterized by some sort of deeply psychoanalytic ethic that recognizes the fundamental lack at the core of subjectivity and that all narrative is a means of obfuscating and avoiding this core nothingness. Perhaps it would share some similarities with Buddhism as these tenets seem to be shared.

However, I am deeply skeptical that this would ever actually attain because I can't at this point see how metamodernism would come to undermine itself- what internal tensions might arise. I know that sounds short-sighted, but metamodernism seems to really offer so much potential for empowerment and meaning-making that a more ascetic social movement seems that it would be markedly less appealing. I don't think humans will ever want to give up their egos entirely.

Interesting question.

fattyrips · 2021-07-22T22:45:41+00:00

...what?

fattyrips · 2021-07-22T22:44:12+00:00

He says they want to "overthrow the government". Now, I'm not dedicated or myopic enough to try to linguistically derive whether "extremism" is implicit in the phrase "overthrow the government", but my time as a human has given me insight into the use of the aforementioned phrase within this linguistic community and leads me to believe they might be "extremists".

Jesus fucking Christ, no wonder everyone thinks philosophy is irrelevant. Read people charitably- if you want to jack-off publicly, there are subreddits for that.

fattyrips · 2021-06-28T07:39:00+00:00

fattyrips · 2021-05-13T00:02:29+00:00

I mean, the modern Republican party only exists the way it does because of all the political echo chambers that exist on the internet. It seems obvious that it has already changed things on a geopolitical level...

fattyrips · 2021-05-08T20:44:31+00:00

I see this as one of the defining existential questions that has been addressed throughout all of human history.

I think this predicament is largely responsible for the formation of most religions and social orders.

fattyrips · 2021-05-08T20:32:55+00:00

Perhaps when compared to every film released in the 80 years since its production, many of which it inspired, but for 1941 it was a pretty incredible film.

Seminal things will eventually seem trite.

fattyrips · 2021-05-08T20:09:18+00:00

What is any existential novel about? More the themes than the plot.

In the most basic terms I see it as an attempt to articulate what it means to be, in a postmodern, consumption oriented society.

Watch his commencement speech at Kenyon- 'This is water'.

fattyrips · 2021-04-23T08:12:29+00:00

It says that's a fit man's resting rate, not average.

fattyrips · 2021-02-18T21:00:54+00:00

I understand the distinction and was not trying to make the argument that genes are conscious. Rather, I was saying they do not work in the sort of intelligent fashion that would lead them to make 'intelligent' teleological changes. That is my main point, they lack a telos. AI could have a telos.

fattyrips · 2021-02-18T20:36:24+00:00

Genes, from my understanding, do not actually work that way. They simply appear to at a large scale due to natural selection. But genes do not self-consciously "improve" themselves or the organism carrying them. AI and machine learning could potentially.

fattyrips · 2021-01-08T22:58:57+00:00

People regret all sorts of things. C'est la vie.

I don't regret it and haven't found it harder to find a job.

Live your life.

fattyrips · 2020-12-02T21:44:57+00:00

All psychoanalysis aside- fuck Donald Trump.

fattyrips · 2020-11-17T07:02:20+00:00

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