Article about heart failure uses "assigned female at birth" and "people with vaginas"

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[–]Antarchomachus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

'people with vaginas'...this the like the whole 'men can become pregnant' nonsense https://www.healthline.com/health/transgender/can-men-get-pregnant

I don't much care what people want to do to their own bodies, or even what pronoun they want me to address them by, but this is getting ridiculous.

When obviously talklng about gender in the strictly biological sense it makes no sense use these strictly social gender constructs

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Have you heard of sociogenic illnesses like the "Tik Tok Tic"? Pretty sure that's what we're seeing with the majority of trans identifying youth. It's trendy, it gets you a lot of attention with little effort, and it gives kids struggling with puberty and young adulthood an infantilized safe space to fall back to. And of course monkey see, monkey do. Entire friend groups decide they're trans, which is very improbable.

Among the "core trans" I think many are AGP - autogynephile. It's a sexual kink for them. That's a really gross read. AGPs tend to dress like the object of their affection. Like their kids for instance. Or internet kids confused about growing up. Really sick shit.

I suspect there may be a "true trans." A person born male who feels female and doesn't play video games and watch anime all day, i.e. typical boy stuff that sociogenic trans "girls" are into, and isn't the weird kink shit of AGPs. Someone who isn't trans because puberty is awkward and growing up is scary. Just a theory though. Haven't met any.

[–]Antarchomachus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I have heard of psychogenic illnesses, so I don't need much convincing that this is a real phenomenon. The astounding variety of new deviancies such as autogynephile - which i'll admit to never having heard of - convinces me something is afoot here. Homosexuality has been around a long time, and we see it in animals - this new alphabet soup of everyone has their own 'custom' sexual deviancy seems unprecedented in psychiatric literature.

This reminds me of the Universe 25 experiments, which inspired the Rats of NIMH. This psychologist Calhoun put a bunch of Mice in a 'utopia'. There was plenty of room, and all the food was provided for them with no effort required. What was unusual about these experiments, is that the Mice population expanded for a while, but they ran out social roles before they ran out of space - and this caused an enormous increase in sexual deviancy amongst the Mice (among other problems).

It's a fascinating experiment about social roles and all kinds of mental illness type behaviors if you aren't familiar with it. It also makes me fearful of seemingly good idea like Andrew Yangs UBI. Yes, I want to ensure a good standard of living for people, but I am afraid if we let robots take the jobs, while Bezos et al runs the world, and supplies us our UBI via taxes, that we end up like the rats provided their version of a UBI in Universe 25.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You mean a fall of rome situation?

[–]Antarchomachus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think the conclusion of the experiment was that our mental health as social animals is dependent upon having a social role. Food procurement (or working) is one of the major ways animals and humans organize these social roles. When there were more animals than roles, mental illness, agression, sexual deviancy, and anxiety were rampant among them and society broke down. Essentially describing types of sociogenic illnesses, although I don't know that Calhoun ever uses this term.

As for a connection to the fall of Rome, I'm not sure honestly. Human societies are obviously more complex than mice societies, but similarities do exist obviously. I've heard various theories surrounding the fall of Rome, my favorite is that societies grow in complexity, but that there is diminishing returns to more layers of bureaucracy, and eventually all societies just collapse under the weight of it all. My theory on UBI I guess is not this - it's that unlike most other societies this would cause a collapse due to mass 'sociogenic illness' like Calhouns mice rather than compexity.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why are you in favor of UBI if you feel we need to contribute to maintain an orderly society, those ideas seem in conflict to me.

[–]Antarchomachus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not in favor of it actually. I just sympathize with people who are. I can understand the appeal of taxing billionaires to ensure good living standards for all, on the surface it seems like a great idea.

[–]Antarchomachus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Realize we are getting way off topic here so I'll end this with some links for anyone who is curious.

Calhoun study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC1644264/pdf/procrsmed00338-0007.pdf

Civilization collapse in relation to complexity https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse