That’s a dilemma indeed. It’s easy to hate a system which treats life as if it were so cheap. Without the people to make and populate these great human institutions, they are nothing. I make a point to not take my life for granted, but sometimes some stark choices must be made. I was told last year that I most likely had a fatal illness, and I was terrified. Turns out that it appears I am not so ill. Even though I resist caving into surviving on other people’s terms, and sometimes see my life as a surreal kamikaze mission, I honestly have still not come to terms with my own mortality. But, in the worst case, I hope I leave the place a bit better off than it was.
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Me too. I’d just like to be around long enough to do something worthwhile. Rather than die before my life can properly get started.
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7 billion people leaving their mark on the world… um… that isn’t working out very well for the world.
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All this talk of evo-sexual-economic bias is only a smoke-screen for the fact that ANY notion of gender identity is a false construct of corporations and technology. It is only once polygenitalism has been shed that true identity is revealed: by a return to the cloaca. We are only truly free if we embrace LIZARD LOVING.
The Crazytown trolley had already jumped the tracks at the post’s title.
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Then I suppose I should just kill myself?
While I find the Neoreactionaries interesting( they definitely have the best bibliographies ) I didn’t quite detect a Randian influence.
As near as I can tell their commitment to monarchy is actually a metaphor on the rights of the individual.
With regards to the linked article - Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a disease of women. Women who were born with a uterus and ovaries. Whatever intellectual stretching the author wishes to make regarding her condition - POS is not a condition that designates a person as intersexed ! It is a condition which affects ovaries - not testes - not streak gonads. Holy appropriation and “science”.
From the article:
Another implication is that “biological sex,” in reality, is a spectrum, or maybe even more complicated than a spectrum. However, societies divide this spectrum into socially constructed categories: sexes.
Do you disagree? Are you using a criticism of her conclusions reached about her own definition of intersex (and subsequent application to herself) as evidence that the underlying assertion of the article is false? (Underlying because that reality is an assumption required to be accepted before she can go on to make the assertion you have criticised.)
Or are you picking one specific conclusion, ‘another implication’, and choosing only to criticise that part, whilst not addressing the reality of a spectrum of gender?
This is not a criticism of your comment, I’m curious and would like more information from you before I reach any conclusions about what views you hold and bring to this conversation.
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I see her as walking around with a target on her forehead wondering why all these arrows are coming from people she considers boys and girls.
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No. They would be fascists, who want a social organisation similar to the Roman Empire. Socialists a hundred years ago were politically sophisticated, engaged people who believed in the equality of women, and the abolition of slavery and ethic discrimination. “The international party shall be the party of the human race.” Although the economic ideas of socialism seem to be continually eroded, the social ideas have largely become mainstream in developed countries.
Hitler called his party “National socialism”. It wasn’t really socialist at all, but he used the word to try to make German workers think he was on their side. These people identify as “socialist libertarian” purely because, as the author points out, they think they are not conservatives. But actually they are tribalists whose views would go down quite well in parts of Pakistan.
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And if someone identifies as neither, what then…?
Because biological essentialism is, to put it in a nutshell, bollocks. It dates from the period when the genetic code had started to be unravelled and people thought “this is the answer to life the universe and everything”, before it was discovered that the portions of the genetic code of an individual that actually get expressed depend on environmental factors, and that the so-called “junk” DNA is involved in making that happen.
When writing about chemistry, there is no need to take the phlogiston theory into account.
It’s only polite to accept someone’s identity however they choose to express it. Seriously, this is BoingBoing, the vast majority of us don’t give a flying F whether you’re male, female, trans of some kind, intersex, intergender, agendered, asexual. As long as you bring something wonderful for show and tell, as long as you’re interesting, we’re happy to see you. Identity politics aren’t as important as having something to say.
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You don’t have to leave your mark on the world.
Just on everyone you meet.
In other words, open a tattoo parlor.
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Well, very interesting article, one could say disturbing…in the sense that you could say the article is in fact a result of being blue-pilled?
In the wise words of Yuri Bezmenov, “The result? The result you can see … the people who graduated in the 60’s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can’t get through to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.”
Continuation
“Most of them, yes. Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in [the] future what the beautiful society of EQUALITY and social justice means in practice, obviously they will revolt. They will be very unhappy [and] frustrated people, and Marxist-Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. Obviously they will join the [ranks] of dissenters; dissidents. Unlike the present United States there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist-Leninist America. [Now] you can get popular like Daniel Elsburg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being a dissident [and] for criticizing your Pentagon. In [the] future these people will simply be [he makes a squishy noise] squashed like cockroaches for criticizing the government. Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful [and] noble ideas of EQUALITY. This they don’t understand and it will be the greatest shock for them, of course.”
Such is Ideological Subversion, via Marxism. His interviews are worth the time to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qkf3bajd4
Would you kindly…
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Or, just punch everyone in the face.
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They should, although I browse a lot of redpill forums and engage with them, I am banned from reddit’s TRP forum because I’m NOT red pill. I would consider myself more green pill - sigma male versus the alpha (red) beta (blue) color ideologies.
Sigmas tend to be the guys selling guns to both sides in order to make a hearty profit from humanity’s basic failure to want to belong to the winning team.
Thanks for thinking about me.
It’s starting to remind me of Futurism, except that I like some of the Futurists’ output.
EDIT: I might be completely misremembering, but according to my recollections: (1) Futurists were pretty misogynist and (2) one of them lived with his Ma (not sure if it was Boccioni, though his mother modeled for him)
(ANother edit: now that I’ve checked, as per Wikipedia the Futurist Manifesto sayeth: “We will glorify war —the world’s only hygiene —militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.”)
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