Carl-Richard

Only if you're a Hegelian @Space Lizard Btw, cycles do not contradict progress. That is why we have spiral models (SD, Integral Theory, Cook-Greuter, MHC etc.). These models actually describe the cycles that the right-wingers are talking about, only they don't use the same absolutistic "good/bad, strong/weak" caveman language.

I mean the internet as we know it today (World Wide Web), invented by boomer Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.

Without baby boomers, you wouldn't have the internet. Technology puts a lever on intelligence and power. Who is the stronger man: the man with or without internet?

Cycles are everywhere, but when right-wingers roll up on their tricycles and claim that it supports their worldview, that is when we put a foot on the brakes. We can't not let shit like this go without criticism: Besides, Ibn Khaldun lived in the 14th century. Update your models.

I'm not saying anything about the video. I'm just saying that these threads attract anti-vaxxers like moths to a candle flame, and they usually don't have anything new to say.

@sir meowski Ok enough Neo-Advaitan fortune cookie quotes.

It's not necessarily insulting (it depends on the person), but it's insensitive in the sense that it's potentially very insulting. Regardless, a privileged white kid telling a kid from the slums to take personal responsibility and not grow up as a criminal is anyway socially repulsive. I'm not sure what your fruit analogy is about. We're still talking about why the meme is garbage. We're just getting into the underlying reasons, which is a general lack of perspective and social unawareness. Besides, didn't you think that the thread had run its course?

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

What can I say – I'm an utopian. There is an obvious role, but it's not the only solution. You need structural change as well. Analytic thinking has to be combined with holistic thinking: you need both individual and collective responsibility. The right-wing is helplessly stuck on the former without even knowing it. No, Ms. Newman. I said right-wingers derive those values from their contracted ideology rather than a metatheoretical, conscious, inclusive, holistic, systemic view.

Not ideologues who are enslaved by their small perspective. Lack of awareness is the epitome of weakness. Preaching personal responsibility to victims of structural violence is insensitive and one-dimensional. When I say principles outside ideology, I mean things like epistemology, scientific literacy and inclusive empathy. Discipline and accountability is baked into their ideology. It doesn't come from a sober systems view.

It's official: strong men poison themselves and other people with chemicals ?

I used your answer to my question to demonstrate my point. Consider yourself used ?

My point is that people will project whatever random definitions and examples they have in their head because the concepts are too vague. This is what people criticize astrology for. This showcases why the right-wing lacks any sort of principles outside ideology.

You did not answer my question at all.

The variables are too vacuous. What does good mean? What does strong mean?

Inb4 the anti-vaxxers from all the previous COVID threads come to repeat their same old talking points.

@Danioover9000 LOL

Reminds me of McKenna's Novelty theory ("Timewave Zero"): take an ill-defined, hypergeneral concept like "novelty" or "good" or "strong" and try to superimpose a pattern on top of an adhoc selection of historical examples. It's pseudoscience.

Cerebral Degeneration.

@AdroseAkise I regret reading that.

@mw711 If that is the case, then you guys are spending an awful lot of energy on a shitpost.

Good call. Let your cringe live through my cringe

I can't believe that I would ever hear about this medieval dude ever again on this forum...

Do you guys really think that a boomer like Joe Rogan even understands the concept of shitposting? Where are his other shitposts?

It's a reactionary meme based on a quote from a postapocalyptic novel by some nobody.