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[–]FlippyKing 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is not a hill I'm willing to die on, so if I'm wrong let me know, but I think these freaks are not able to think in unironic terms, or they replaced actual thinking with a shallow parody of thinking.

IF we allow the ideas that after 1) it (very long ago) became culturally accepted to separate brain from body and 2) to associate our consciousness and being with the brain while seeing the body as an appendage to our consciousness and being, THEN the next step is to disassociate actually rational functions from our being as well.

IF our brains are a refuge from the physical world, aka if our fantasies not only shield some inner core of our 'selves' from the reality around us to the point of denying that reality but even allow the fantasy to seem to overcome reality (magic, bad art, fantasy/sci-fi, revisionist history, ending actual definitions to words so that everything just means what the fantasticist (not a word but what is the word, I don't want to use fantasizer)), OR IF our brains are considered the only reality we know and the outside reality we then would only seem to experience is not real and thus inconsequential, THEN this obscenity typed by 'dykemalice' makes perfect sense.

Somehow our culture has created a group of people aggressively divorced from reality. They are humans and as such part of reality, but since they do not accept reality as real they have a disordered relationship with reality. If reality was not real they would not rail against it so aggressively. This social media post from 'dykemalice' is an attempt at sacrilege, and that may seem like hyperbole but they see themselves as part of a counter-culture and as they make legal, social, and cultural gains in every other sub-culture including the dominant culture and gains in every institution that has power, have to amp up their countering of the culture they counter. The bigger problem is that it is not any culture that is their enemy but reality, which they do not really think exists or is discernible (I think that's QT and the mumbo-jumbo that post modernism has descended into).

But they are not in a vacuum, the culture we all live in has become more and more authoritarian at the expense of communitarian values, legalistic at the expense of charitableness and compassion, monetized at the expense of being humane, and many other evils like those are pushing aside virtues we should share. They are reacting to that, just as all real counter-cultures react against real problems at the margins of sub-cultures and real problems in all large cultural groups. The sad thing is those who manipulate society to keep us divided against each other so we are easier to rule over have figured out how to co-opt any counter-culture to serve their own purposes.